REVIEW: The Heidi Chronicles, Music Box Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Heidi Chronicles review Music Box Theatre

This is a play about the inequality women endure every day in almost every aspect of life, the way women treat women badly, viciously even, and the pains, pleasures and pitfalls of enduring friendships. The themes about friendship see the play reach its most acute and passionate apex; few will watch those scenes and not see themselves, their lives, reflected in some aspect of the central relationships that play out across the decades through which the narrative courses.

REVIEW: A Delicate Balance, John Golden Theatre ✭✭✭✭

John Lithgow and Glenn Close in A Delicate Balance at the John Golden Theatre

This production sets its own agenda, all with the express blessing of the text, and the result is an energised, specific reading which focuses on loss, terror, friendship, rights and wrongs. Silence and pain. Fear and, eventually, hope. Together, Balaban and Higgins make this production the success it is. They upset and then realign the balance in the household they invade.