8 September 2016. Torn at the Royal Court.

I did not really get on with this play at the time but have warmer feelings of it on reflection. Essentially, it told the story of a family with a secret. Nine members of the family are gathered to sort this out for once and for all, at the behest of Angel. She claims her stepfather abused her. There are a host of dialogues one on top of the other, all quite realistic when looked back upon. However, at the time, I found it all a bit of a muddle and hard to follow who was who and what was going on. I came away not particularly satisfied and even now, I'm not sure what the point of it was. OK. it conveyed this story but I'm not sure that it did nay more than that. It did not, for example, make me think about the nature of abuse - apart perhaps for the fact that it is difficult to be believed because different members of a family for their different reasons prefer to collude in ignorance. This is not a new idea and one that I feel could have been better explored - but maybe I missed the point. Certainly the reviews were quite favourable.