Iz is gone but not forgotten. In fact she is making her lack of presence felt to Bez, Baz and Ben - two former lovers and her husband. In life Iz was the link between the three, but in death she is pulling them apart as grief and memory play tricks and they discover how hard it is to really say that you know somebody. But then it is harder still to know yourself and come to terms with your own feelings. Particularly if you are a man in pain.
Oliver Emanuel's clever and touching script is an assured piece of writing, an Art for the bereaved, with some of the wit of Yasmin Reza's hit and a great deal more emotional honesty. It is however not so much what it says as the way it says it that is impressive. Dan Bye's stylish production has each actor conversing with each other but stranded alone on narrow islands of carpet. It is a physical manifestation of the struggle to understand, communicate and reclaim the friendship that bound them, and the woman who is no longer with them.
Grae Cleugh, Nick Jesper and Andrew Patfield are terrific in a polished little number that reminds us that it is living, not dying, that is hard to do.
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