Venue: Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Director: Sonia Fraser
Dates: October - November 1998

Essentially a two-hander, with Anita Dobson, this play is about a couple with a Down's syndrome daughter. The daughter is now 31, and the couple must confront the realisation that they may die before her and must decide how best to care for her. In doing so, they discover that their relationship is entirely bound up in their daughter: that without her they have no relationship. The end of the play brings no answers, and in the set I tried to reflect this untangling of their relationship, only to be left with the knot you can never untie - the image a celtic knot.

Jessica Stack provided a simple but elegant domestic setting with a white cat's-cradle backdrop to echo the emotional turmoil of a family in crisis.
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