Details

Raymond and Antonia are like any normal couple in their sixties. They have their flaws, they have had their ups and their downs but they are together and they still love each other. Now they face a choice, the hardest choice of their lives, a choice that Raymond believes he has a right to make but about which Antonia has grave doubts. Diagnosed with an incurable and relentlessly progressive degenerative disease, Raymond has decided that he wants out before the illness takes over. However if he is to end it, he needs the help of Antonia. Raymond, an atheist, has no ethical concerns about killing himself, nor does he believe that anyone else has the right to interfere in his decision but, as a lawyer, he does realise the potential legal implications for Antonia if she assists in his suicide. For Antonia, a practising Catholic, the criminal consequences that might result from helping Raymond to die are of less concern than the religious and moral issues. As the couple struggle towards a resolution of what both of them, from their different viewpoints, consider to be the crucial questions, they gradually reveal more of the thoughts and emotions that they have kept hidden, during the twenty-five years of their marriage. Reunion is the study of a couple as they face a crisis and the exploration of the moral and ethical questions that surround whether one has the right to choose the time to die.

Cast/Performers

Roberta Taylor, Peter Guinness

Creatives/Company

Author: John Caine
Company: Polpo Productions (in association with Jermyn Street Theatre)
Director: Anthony Biggs
Design: Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Lighting: David W Kidd