Cul-de-Sac

What happens when you get 5 people all harbouring dark secrets in a living room with copious amounts of sherry, taramasalata and a game of Pictionary? Cul-de-Sac currently playing at The Omnibus Theatre attempts to answer that question, but I’m still not really sure on the answer we got.

This play is an exploration of middle class values and what happens behind the closed doors of the small community. Ruth and Frank are a couple in their 30/40’s whose marriage hangs in the balance. Ruth a self proclaimed ‘involuntarily retired therapist’ played by Shereen Roushbaiani with incredible authenticity, you feel for Ruth and the choices she has been forced to make in her life. Ellis J. Wells is the insufferably frustrated Frank, a man who holds into the past and although the character gets a lot of the jokes in the first half, the second half feels so intense for him, it's a difficult watch.