AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART

And No More Shall We Part is an intimate portrayal of the difficult notion of assisted suicide, covering the depth of unbridled emotions and intricate issues surrounding it.

For a play that deals with such devastating material it doesn’t stray into the melodramatic, rather this is a very honest, poignant and at times funny production.

Victoria Lamb’s set is a brilliant vehicle for this story because at once the audience feels completely immersed in Don and Pam’s lives and Sam Strong’s direction underlines this in using all of the Griffin Theatre space – backstage as well as front.

Both Linda Cropper and Russell Kiefel turn in performances that seem to be etched from real life – complete with all of their love, truthfulness and dysfunction.

The wonderful thing about And No More Shall We Part is that tends to stay away from what we hear in the headlines about assisted suicide and looks beyond this into the real lives of individuals who are deeply affected and profoundly changed by such an event.

BY WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS

Until Sep 3, SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross, $28-47, 8019 0292, griffintheatre.com.au