Acting alongside Lahti on the night I saw was Isabelle Ford as Christine’s younger self which gives the opportunity for Lahti to reflect and look back on her childhood with an extra cast member.  At university a house mate is raped.  She goes to a women’s liberation meeting and says, “I’d never seen so many non-smiling faces in my life.”  She is inspired by Long Day’s Journey into Night to become an actor and then faces a sexually abusive audition. One of her sisters faces a mental health breakdown.  All these issues are illustrated by Lahti with understandable emotion and sometimes anger. She is a vivid storyteller over seven life changing decades.

The set is a bright white plastic covered sofa as in her mother’s white carpeted pristine house with Lahti’s dress the bright red splash of colour against the black and white set.  The lighting is bright and on the back wall are projected stills of the family and the era. Mêlisa Annis directs so that the ninety minutes is full of thoughtful drama beautifully told.