Review

Review: Helen

A truthful portrayal of the tension and strain that comes with grief says reviewer Naomi Holcombe.

Grief is an all-encompassing feeling. When someone you love dies, there is no way of knowing how you will react to it, or how people ‘expect’ you to react to it, and, although time heals, and grief fades, it never really goes away.

Helen by Maureen Lennon is about the death of a husband and father. It's about how the titular character and her daughter Becca, who is a teenager at the time, cope together – and apart – after bereavement. The play goes through a roller-coaster of emotions and feels very honest in its portrayal of what the days, weeks and years feel like after such a big loss, and the shock-waves that are felt by the people who are left behind.

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