Oh dear. No this one wasn’t for us. It came at the end of a long week for both of us, but any week we would have found the oppressive family situation depicted here difficult to bear for two hours.
Here is a link to the Finborough resources on this play/production.
The central characters are escapees from the Armenian genocide and as such both are sympathetic characters. But the writing seemed, to us, laboured. The progress through the plot is well signalled in advance and therefore seemed very slow. Here is the playwright’s own take on the piece, which includes a video snippet.
But the acting was all very good and as always with the Finborough, you feel that you are seeing a tiny place punch well above its weight.
The play/production has been well received, so maybe it really was us, not the play/production. Here is a link that finds the reviews.
We love the Finborough; we just didn’t love this piece and we didn’t stick around to see the second half.