The other characters are all residents in this unnamed care home.  Most vocal in an almost Tourette’s way is Simone (Hayley Carmichael).  Definitely in the spectrum, Simone is responsible for much of the comedy in the first half of the play with her profanity, sexual comments and sexual gestures (if you like that sort of thing).  Later she is redeemed by becoming good friends with Joan as other residents die around them. 

Ann Mitchell plays Agnes, a glamorous retired thespian with the odd quote from her lifetime of roles.  We are promised activities for those able to get down to the sitting room with its arrangement of wooden arm chairs.  I think the first activity was them talking about their travels but the second is hand and arm actions to the Supremes, “Stop in the Name of Love”.  Residents start to pop their clogs by getting up and walking slowly into the expanse of the auditorium.  It is the walk of passing on, sentimentally directed.

There are two men.  We never hear from Eugene (Winston Sookhan) but John (Richard Durden) has more to offer.  On the travel activity he described a romantic interlude, then he sang “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific.  He starts to interact with Joan, believing that she is his dead wife Jennifer, and strips off down to his nappy and socks to hold her affectionately.