This was a very interesting evening, solely featuring an Irish couple who were struggling to make ends meet. The husband takes on more and more work as a haulier, finally agreeing to do a shady piece of dumping for his boss. He chooses to offload some toxic waste in the lake to which he and his family goes from time to time. As luck would have it, his wife visits the lake with the baby soon after and it damn nearly gets killed by the waste. He confesses and, not surprisingly, all hell lets loose. At first their marriage seems over but she later is more nuanced while he thoroughly beats himself up and finally confesses to the police.
The play provoked in me the thought of the tension between the man earning the money for his family and being accused of always being at work. Of course, this man - Kurt - is a bit more than 'at work' but then how many men are making dubious moral choices thinking that they are doing right by their families? The play exaggerates the tension to make the point.
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