This drama declares its central theme in its striking design: a multilevel family home, cut open so we can observe what is said and done in every room as well as the front-of-stage dining table.
The Myers are the well-to-do New York brood who collect around it to celebrate their father’s lifetime award for services to science. Professor Richard Myers (Robert Lindsay) was an IVF pioneer but now has Parkinson’s disease, and his job’s central metaphor – of creating new life – plays out in his family’s discussions around children, parents, legacies and inheritances.
