Cathy is an act­ress. Jam­ie is a writer. Both of them are at the begin­ning of their careers when they meet. Five years later after suc­cess for both of them they are break­ing up. Their indi­vidu­al stor­ies are told from dif­fer­ent point of the rela­tion­ship. Cathy’s story starts at the end of the rela­tion­ship and tracks back to where it star­ted. Jamie’s story starts at the begin­ning and fol­lows it through the reas­ons why it ends.

Both per­formers, Ellie Neal (Cathy) and Justin Rogers (Jam­ie), are excel­lent at con­vey­ing emo­tion­al depth through their singing as well as phys­ic­al move­ments and facial expres­sions. They give their char­ac­ters heart which is good since they’re often singing solo with min­im­al vocal inter­ac­tion from the oth­er. Neal’s voice is sweet and light which she plays off against the strength she has imbued in her char­ac­ter. Rogers’ is con­fid­ent in voice and move­ment par­al­lel­ing his some­what self-centred char­ac­ter.
Dir­ect­or Jon Hunter has them move around the eleg­antly simple set adding visu­al interest to a music­al that could be very stat­ic. They are accom­pan­ied by Music­al Dir­ect­or Mark Dor­rell on piano.

Great work from two new per­formers.

  • The last five years by Jason Robert Brown, dir­ec­ted by Jon Hunter, on at BATS Theatre to Sat­urday 5 Decem­ber 2015

N.B. There are two per­form­ances on Fri­day 4 Decem­ber.