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The Empty Nest review: Gogglebox-style exchanges provide witty take on married couple’s embattled relationship
Armchair to armchair on this one captured evening – which is like every other evening – they try to find satisfying entertainment in their ageing television. Their reactions flick off one another just as they flick through programmes, as if control of the remote offers a kind of control of life. Thisarrangement is used with purpose to reveal their attitudes: Sheila is very interested in Naked Attraction; Tony ponders the reality of the ads for female hygiene.
Menopause and HRT: ‘I never had a hot flush. I was just losing myself. By 47 or 48 the weight had really come on’ For all its ebullient and unholy energy it is not dialogue alone that carries such a layered weight of contrasts. Where Sheehy and O’Rourke’s performances have an edge of bitter resentment they also have a surviving empathy, their shifting glance and changing expressions as crucial to their veracity as the pace and pauses of their exchanges. However excoriating the words may be, there is so much more than words to be savoured.
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