Moment of Grace
5 Stars
Online till 9th Aug
Moment of Grace is a play about a old pandemic , it was due to run during July at Tristan Bates theatre ,that of course ,due to the modern pandemic couldn't happen, so the writer Bren Gosling and director Nicky Allpress got together to produce something more than just a film of a stage play.
Setting 1987 this is the reaction to Princess Diana's visit to an AIDS ward in London and to her holding the hand of a patient there.
This play is a three hander , Jude played by Lucy Walker-Evans a young nurse who is thinking of changing of career, Donnie (Andrew Paul) a fireman from Essex who is old school but is embracing thatcherism and all that means for the Basildon Man in the 80s and Andrew (Luke Dayhill) a positive patient on the ward, a young man who is still in the closet and scared that Princess Diana's visit may out him to family and friends.
This easily could be just another AIDS melodrama and just tug at the heartstrings and let the emotions overtake you but the writer Bren Gosling makes it much more than that. Being filmed with mainly confessional type shots of just the actors face speaking into the camera you stop being a just a viewer of events and turning into a confidante.
This play has striking moments, powerful performances with words of tenderness and intimacy.
This will be the best £6 you will spend in lockdown ! (are we still in lockdown, is it still 2020, Oh I don't know.)
Moment of Grace
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