As it is, Tina Thomas has ordinary problems, related in monotone – her daughter’s wish for a nose piercing, her mother’s interference in her life, which unappealing suitor to go out with and disdain for husband Mikey, who left her for another woman.
Tina answered the questions set by Psychology Today without any of the insight one might reasonably expect from a psychologist but this did not pose a problem whilst there was still an expectation of a denouement coming to shock, move or surprise us. Half an hour in, this was still startlingly missing.
The defining moment for Tina was when as pathologist she faced her friend’s body on the block waiting for autopsy. This was delivered with the by now familiar absence of dramatic tension and a lack of emotion.
After this anti-climactic peak, there was no recovery and the performance continued on its stiflingly weary way to Tina’s unconvincing conclusion that to get on with her life she might contact her ex-love on Facebook or Friends Reunited. Overall, an unconvincing story and a two-dimensional performance.
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