The Lady from the Sea

Andrew Lincoln was SO GOOD. I completely lost myself in his portrait of a depressed middle-aged dad, which is a sentence I didn't expect to write (WAIT lol that's such a lie). Joe Alwyn was genuinely funny, even if his character felt a little like a question mark in bathing shorts.

The staging was the real showstopper though: The Bridge literally put a swimming pool on stage, which I was still casually dropping into conversations a week later on a DNO backstage tour. Some of the smaller details — like the inverted towel colours — had a lovely quality to it. Alicia's storyline didn't quite land; she felt slightly outpaced by the rest of the cast, which dulled the emotional punch the play was going for, I think.

Grace Oddie-James was fantastic and I want to see her in more things!

I took Tracey who said it redeemed My Master Builder and Michael who thought it was "quite good".