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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Memories or mortality?
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Elegy
Donmar Warehouse
London WC2
4/5
BARBARA Flynn’s Carrie is faced with an awful choice. She can save her wife Lorna (Zoe Wanamaker) from an awful death at the hands of a degenerative brain condition or she can watch her die horribly. But the price of the cure is Lorna’s memory.
Like Florian Zeller’s The Father and Nicola Wilson’s Plagues and Tangles, Nick Payne’s new play is interested in memory and the threat of a decaying brain.
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