Donmar Warehouse, London
The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family

There are many ingenious ideas in Anna Ziegler’s spare, sensitive two-hander, which features a sensational stage debut by screen star Erin Kellyman. She could not be more confident as Delilah, a bolshie, half-American daughter in mourning, who has a spiky relationship with her buttoned-up British stepmother, Jennifer (Anastasia Hille).

Artfully directed by Diyan Zora, the play is both a telling (the women narrate in third person) and an enactment of their developing relationship within a circle on stage, which revolves as the two psychologically orbit each other. We see them meet, clash and misunderstand each other while confessing their inner worlds to us, just outside this dramatic circle.