Review: You Forgot the Mince

The Carriageworks, LeedsBy Yvette HuddlestonImagine If theatre company's thought-provoking play, written by Leeds theatre maker Francesca Joy, explores a modern-day abusive relationship. Rosa (played by Joy) is a bright young woman preparing to leave her home city of Leeds and go off to university in London.

She has been living with her grandmother Lily (Julie Edwards) since her troubled mother died some years back. As Rosa looks forward to an exciting new future, she meets local lad Niko (Ashley Gerlach) and the pair fall head over heels in love.

However, it gradually transpires that their relationship is complex, encumbered by layers of hurt and vulnerability on both sides, which tests their love to its limits. Meanwhile Lily is trying to get over the loss of her daughter by baking cakes and not really talking about it.

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The play seeks to understand rather than judge and is all the more powerful for that. It goes beneath the surface to investigate how open-heartedness and honesty can go a long way to helping us avoid repeating mistakes, and how we all bear the scars of our past.

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