His assistant nurse, Ilse (played with a potent stillness by Claire-Monique Martin), is all subservience on the outside, but inside the fire of resistance burns passionately below the skin.
It’s an important story, and there’s plenty to admire, particularly a standout turn from Claire-Monique Martin.
Every time she returns to the stage, the emotional temperature shifts, and you find yourself wanting to follow her even more.
Claire-Monique Martin is just perfect as the nurse willing to risk it all for the sake of bringing two gay men back together,
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Claire-Monique Martin gives a wonderfully caring and human performance. You could visibly see her character's discomfort - her soul recoiling at being part of a process she clearly felt was cruel and inhumane.
But several of the finest scenes rest on the shoulders of two further performers, Claire-Monique Martin and Tom Everatt. Martin plays the nurse, Ilse, unwillingly assisting Vaernert, who then takes action to help Nikolai and reconnect him to Zack. This is a finely-graded study in passionate constraint, that helps to provide the audience with something of a moral lodestar through the play.
The strongest performance comes from Claire-Monique Martin as Vaernet’s nurse, Ilse. She succeeds in finding some motivation in the script and acts in a more naturalistic style than others do. She is the only character with whom it is really possible to empathise.
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