THEATRE

So Young

The Old Fitz, u ntil November 22

Reviewed by KATE PRENDERGAST

★ ★ ★ ★ ½

The abstract of Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell’s award-winning So Young is enough to make anyone rub their hands in anticipatory glee. Get this: a widower, his beloved wife of many years just three months in the earth, has fallen for a super-fit barmaid more than 20 years his junior.

How scandalous! How derisively rudimentary of male behaviour. I mean, really – what an egregious, avoidant and dick-driven way for that middle-aged fool Milo to handle his grief. His two good friends Liane (Ainslie McGlynn) and Davie (Jeremy Waters), a couple who knew the aforementioned dead wife since their teacher training years, undergo the predictable reactions when introduced to the cheerily unab

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