Review: All On Her Own (Online production) : vimarsana.com

Review: All On Her Own (Online production)


© Danny Kaan
The playwright Terence Rattigan and the actress Janie Dee are both experts on the subtleties of regret, on the distance between what you hope for and what you experience, on the difficulty of putting a brave face on sorrow.
Whoever had the idea of getting Dee to star in Rattigan's 1968 monologue, about a grieving widow, originally written for TV, is to be congratulated for providing us with a mini lockdown masterpiece, a 25-minute study of mismatched love that speaks much more loudly than many longer more elaborate productions.
Dee plays Rosemary, sitting alone in her London home, getting quietly "woozled" as her late husband Gregory would have called it, with the whisky decanter emptying rapidly in front of her. As she drinks, she mulls over the circumstances of his death, on this very sofa, at this very time, from a combination of alcohol and sleeping tablets. Was it an accident as the police and the coroner have decided or was it deliberate? She will never know.

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