Smallholding

Via Amazon Local, I got two tickets for this play at the Soho Theatre for just £15 (even without the voucher, tickets are only £10). To be honest, I'd never heard of that theatre before. It's a very small space on Dean Street, just off Oxford Street (near the Tottenham Court Road station end) with a funky bar on the ground floor.

This is what it says on the website:
"Jen and Andy have been gifted a new start: a cottage in Northamptonshire. The plan is to give it and themselves a new lease of life; to brush off the decade they squandered in the city. But escaping their shared demons was never going to be easy.

Smallholding is a smouldering love story about trying to make a relationship work when the odds are stacked against you."

I didn't expect the 'shared demons' to be drug addiction. I had expected more of a 'relate-able' story. Having said that, I really enjoyed the play. Even if parts were rather uncomfortable to watch and a lot of it was sad. Despite the very specific issues that come with addiction, there was still a lot that is applicable to relationships in general. Both played their roles very well and as we were so close to the action, it made it quite an intense experience.

As Jen says at the end: 'You miss so much, when you are looking the wrong way.'