Waste

I was at the Almeida Theatre with Kirstie watching the Sam West-directed Waste. I looked down on the couple on stage knowing full well they were not right together, that they had no spark; and yet wondering why not: they should be good together; they share the same cynicism.

They reminded me of so many couples: they should work but they don’t. She was accepting of the affair he had, resigned and wanting to show herself to be above such concerns. And yet a typically feminine desire for his affection was evident on her part. As it had been too in the other woman, the one he got pregnant. He had lusted after her. He shouldn’t be attractive and yet she longed after him while he shunned. He loses his political career, yes. But she loses her life.