The Pulitzer Prize winning musical finally arrives in London - and it's worth the wait
At first all seems like a regular domestic whirr as the four family members move around the kitchen. “My son’s a little sh*t/ My husband’s boring/ My daughter’s a freak” sings Diana , in what can be taken as standard frustration at life with teenagers. Yet soon we realise something is off kilter in this set-up and when Diana starts spreading sandwich fillings all over the floor there can be no doubt. She is frantic with bipolar disorder, an illness that has plagued her for 16 years.
Diana’s illness is hell for her, of course, but impossibly gruelling too for her loyal and resolutely positive husband Dan as he stands poised for every shift in her mood, desperately trying to smooth out the roiling tides of her mental torment. Daughter Natalie has lived all her 16 years in the impossible shadow of her brother Gabe and in standout song “Superboy and the Invisible Girl” she lets rip with the articulation of this lifelong feeling of inadequacy.
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