Harold Pinter theatre, London
Arterton plays a former Nasa employee whose astronaut twin descends on her wilderness retreat in Amy Berryman’s intelligent, soulful drama
Twin sisters with a fractious history are planning a reunion at the start of Amy Berryman’s play. “We have to act happy,” says Stella to her fiance before her twin has arrived, and the anxious statement prepares us for the unfolding drama of sisterly competition and grudge.
But the first in Sonia Friedman’s Re:Emerge series at the Harold Pinter theatre is not just a psychodrama of spiky sisterhood but an original play of ideas that takes in everything from the ethics of space endeavour to climate activism and the pull between duty, ambition and desire.
