The Deep Blue Sea - 2016 - 7/10
Theatre junkies, rally round!
During the Covid lockdown, the National Theatre began limited airing of stage classics.
Hester is discovered and revived after a botched suicide.
Her boyfriend is away, so one of the neighbors contacts Hester’s husband, whom she abandoned.
The story occurs in one set, across one long day.
Choices, made a year earlier, knot into despair.
The bitter agony of love mismatched, where you hold so tight you claw each other.