Traverse theatre, Edinburgh
Actor Amy Molloy delivers an elegant monologue that reveals itself as something greater in this supremely thoughtful show
Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men in her life. There’s her gentle old Belfast dad, disappointed by the company she keeps, there’s Big Joe, the teenage crush she lost in a daredevil accident, and there’s her attentive but unexciting husband, Brendy.
Above all, there’s Diver, a charismatic lowlife more than 20 years her senior whose lust for life matches his appetite for destruction. A relationship that began as grooming came to an end when he found another “child bride”. She is happily free of him but haunted by his memory when he unexpectedly comes back into her life.