I thought this was an excellent fifty minutes. The clever direction by James Macdonald was thoroughly engaging with its interleafing of the four ladies sat together and the monologues by Mrs Jarrett. The words had me in full concentration, even though it mixed a plausible plot (the lady who had killed her husband and spent six years in jail) with Mrs Jarrett's near-fantasy.
Like Beckett and Pinter, the text took on a semi-abstract quality whereby the beauty of the words themselves became the point of the play. Somehow, it mixed the bleak with moments that were funny and it is something I would happily see again.
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