Two women are trapped together by Covid and if you go you will be forced into their company for 85 minutes. I suspect that if it had been long enough for an interval, there might have been some empty seats for the second half.  Anastasia Hille plays Jennifer, a woman who has wasted her life in living with her difficult mother, a woman who hasn’t experienced love or motherhood.  Her mother’s death might have released her from the duty of care but it couldn’t change her meek, subjugated personality. 

She breaks a leg and a man gets her an ambulance and visits her in hospital. He is called John but we never meet him.  His character is fleshed out by descriptions from the two women.  John marries Jennifer and she finds herself step mother to Delilah (Erin Kellyman) a fiery girl in her late teens.  Delilah lived in Brooklyn with her artist mother who was originally from Jamaica.  We can empathise with Delilah on finding herself with this characterless milksop of a step parent, so far removed from her own mother for whom she is grieving. 

Jennifer repeats, “How did we meet?” about John.  Her answer is a deflection, “People like to ask this.”  Much of the beginning of the play is Jennifer reflecting out loud on not remembering things, where she put things, and regretting the aches and pains of old age.  She is seven years older than John who spends a lot of time abroad.  Delilah explains to Jennifer the concept of FOMO which of course Jennifer doesn’t understand.  It is the kind of heading off potential envy, a fear of missing out which makes you accept every invitation going.  Of course Jennifer doesn’t understand this from her closeted experience of life.