Recent history - Jab and Photographing Britain
Jab At the Park 90 Theatre, this one had an unusually small audience, so much so that we all naturally sort of socially distanced ourselves amongst the seats. This is a relationship drama set in the midst of Covid. Anne (Kacey Ainsworth) is a health worker and therefore ‘essential’ whilst Don (Liam Tobin), as his wife points out, is ‘non-essential’; he agrees, he’s a luxury item ‘like a bath bomb’. At the start of the lockdown , the banter is light, but as things progress, the cracks in the relationship show and things turn nasty. Apparently based on a real story, it’s well performed and actually very funny. It feels pretty accurate, and uses the real timeline including the lockdown language, the deaths, debates and Barnard Castle, but it doesn’t really set the world alight. I think that we could have had more about the decision that Anne has to make and why she makes it, given the abusive relationship - that was sort of just displayed and...