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From: anon Category: Theatre Date: 23 August 2006 Time: 11:01 AM Review: Like the other reviewer, I found this play to be very interesting with depth and various strands, or issues. The programme notes allude to the allegory of Belarus and Russia and the everyday lives of the people, this is crucial to the story. The two cancer sufferers are not only trying to live, and cope, with serious/terminal illness; I believe they also represent the struggle of life in that part of the world. The students discuss how to manipulate 'the people' by putting forward concepts concerning a false God and the possibility of controlling the population, and what the letters G O D may stand for. The mother illustrates the choices which she had to make just to survive, so to afford food for her family, and drugs for her cancer suffering daughter. Although to her home town she was 'someone' who has succeeded, she feels her ambitions and dreams were sacrificed. I too, would have welcomed further writing developing the unrequited love, and the mother/daughter relationship. Perhaps the constraints of performing in Belarus, as mentioned in the programme, precluded Moshina from writing a longer piece. However, it still works as a piece of thought provoking theatre. My friends and I were still discussing the issues three days later - which doesn't often happen!! It was extremely well and sensitively acted, and the production worked smoothly.