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- Stories probing mental health with both humor and heartbreak
- Elliptical timelines and philosophical undertones in contemporary drama
Polar Bears is a captivating tale by awardwinning writer Mark Haddon.
Balancing humour and pathos, it tells of one man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition.
With an elliptical structure and teasing timeline, the play handles the subject sensitively, with vivid, sympatheticallydrawn characters and nicelybalanced dialectics.
Polar Bears is thoughtprovoking and intelligent, with echoes of Nietszcheanphilosophy, and it refuses to offer any easy answers for those embroiled in mental instability.
The plot is as follows: John has never met anyone like Kay.
When the moon is in the right phase, she is magnetic and amazingly alive.
But when the darkness closes in, she is lost to another world, a world in which John does not belong.
Polar Bears is his first work for the theatre and enjoyed a high profile premiere at the Donmar Warehouse 1 April 22 May 2010, directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Jodhi May and Richard Coyle.
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