Happiness is a Cup of Tea
Fiona is asked to write a eulogy & she didn't even know her mother was ill.
One woman show as a young girl sits on Beachy Head thinking about her mother's recent demise and how it can best be remembered in the eulogy she has to write. Although nicely performed, the story didn't really hang together and despite the fact that the actress was clearly moved, I was not. Somehow I just didn't feel drawn in, didn't get to understand the reality that I was presented with, the puppetry just didn't work for me and the promised ukulele didn't appear at all. This should have wrung my heart as it is only a few months since I wrote my own mother's euology but ...