In Two Minds

Theatre (drama, new writing)

Venue 15
Traverse Theatre - Traverse 2
10:30
Aug 25
1 hour 20 minutes
Suitability: 14+ (Guideline)
Country: Ireland
Group: Fishamble: The New Play Company
Warnings and additional info: Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes, Strong language/swearing

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Description

Four-time Fringe First and Olivier award-winning Fishamble returns to Traverse. Explored through a mother-daughter relationship, In Two Minds is deeply personal, inventive, funny and life-affirming. From writer Joanne Ryan (Lustrum Award winner) and director Sarah Jane Scaife (Beckett sa Chreig: Laethanta Sona) comes a tale of an adult child and parent sharing a home. Pom Boyd (The Dry) and Karen McCartney (A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings) perform a delicate piece grappling with mental health, love and humanity. In Two Minds finds insight in the darkness, humour in the pain, and tenderness in difficult family dynamics.

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Ann 27 days ago

Thoroughly enjoyed this play. If it's sold out and you're looking for an alternative, try Deadheads in the Crate, Assembly George Square. Equally brilliant.

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Jon Smith 29 days ago

In Two Minds is about the difficult relationship between an aspiring journalist played by Karen McCartney known as Daughter and her mother played by Pom Boyd known as Mother. The circumstances pushing the relationship to breaking point are Mother moving out of her home while it is being renovated to stay with Daughter. Tension arises quickly and lasts throughout the story, due largely to Mother's rather eccentric and inflexible behaviour. There are hints of mental illness such as bipolar in Mother, although this is not explicit despite mention of a hospital visit. This is a reasonably engaging production that many audience members will relate to, but there is not much of a story and Mother is a somewhat infuriating presence,

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Duncan Green 38 days ago

Powerful portrayal, but familiar territory and didn't take us any further in terms of understanding. 7/10

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Julie Phillips 39 days ago

Really good show. Exploring relationships. We throughly enjoyed it. 5*

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Across the Arts (4/5 stars) 25 days ago

In a crowded marketplace, this treatment of mental health manages to say something worth hearing.

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The Scotsman (4/5 stars) 27 days ago

The mood is less polemical and more reflective

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VoiceMag.uk 30 days ago

the two actresses on stage successfully captured the audience

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North West End UK (3/5 stars) 31 days ago

it shines a spotlight to focus on the tough subject of filial mental decline with sensitivity and insight

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Bouquets & Brickbats (4/5 stars) 39 days ago

In Two Minds is a clever play, at once discomfiting and heartwarming

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All Edinburgh Theatre (3/5 stars) 40 days ago

There is a realism to Ryan’s script that is painful at times; certainly you don’t need to have experience of the specific situation in the play to recognise how tremendously well-observed it is.

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