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The miracle of international streaming, though, pushes that window wider.
Live from Dublin on your setup screen, its a superb performance ofThe Approach.
(Sinead McKenna designed the set.)
Months and even years elapse between meetings, giving allegiances time to shift.
Men in their lives come and go, but this promisewell get together soon!is reliably wrong.
The play is manifestly a showcase.
ORowe wrote it for these three specific actors, each one a soft-voiced cannon.
This play does not.)
But just because the chat is naturalistic doesnt mean the effect isnt just a little … strange.
ORowe sometimes blurs the lines between the womens stories.
Yet they cant have all had the same experience, surely?
One key to the game is absence.
The long pauses between scenes are as dark as those gaps, and certainty falls into them.
There are three actors in the show, but we grow unsure that they represent exactly three women.
Is there some numberbetweentwo and three?
The Approachis actually a 2018 play.
It wasnt written with the pandemic in mind, but it fits itself beautifully to the time.
