André lives in his flat where Anne, his daugh­ter, vis­its him. He’d rather his daugh­ter Elise vis­ited but she’s busy with her art work. Or is she? And who is Pierre? And why does Laura keep com­ing around?

This show explores real­ity and per­cep­tion in a fam­ily situ­ation which is famil­i­ar to many people. What hap­pens when memory starts to dis­ap­pear and when does that become a prob­lem?  It’s an excel­lent script (and trans­la­tion) which tends towards the more comed­ic side of aging. This doesn’t detract from the struggle and emo­tions of the char­ac­ters as they deal with what is hap­pen­ing. Jef­frey Thomas plays André. Thomas gives him a faded sense of his former charm which still shows through as the char­ac­ter loses his memory. Dani­elle Mason is his daugh­ter Anne with her fussy move­ments at the begin­ning of the show trans­lat­ing to emo­tion­al worry at the end. Ges­ture is import­ant as char­ac­ters mir­ror each oth­er and swap man­ner­isms. Per­haps it is the repe­ti­tion of both words and phys­ic­al­ity but this ensemble (includ­ing Gav­in Ruther­ford, Har­riet Preb­ble, Simon Leary and Bron­wyn Turei) feels estab­lished.

The set echoes the pro­gress of the script with a black­out between scenes allow­ing for the stage to be reset. This enhances the sense that time and real­ity are strange. It stretches,  pauses, repeats and skips, keep­ing the audi­ence ever so slightly unbal­anced.