Let’s start with the scene changes. In Jaz Woodcock-Stewart’s inspired production of Margaret Perry’s probing play, these shifts have attitude, go off-kilter and involve high-energy chart music and intoxicating dance routines. They’re like little works of art in themselves.
Then there are the silences. Here is a play where pauses grind with awkwardness, hum with hysteria and hold an almost unbearable sadness: watch as Baby (Carmel Winters) sinks into a bath. When she emerges, other women help her dress. One scene change finds all six actors on their hands and knees, clearing things up together.
