Just Between Ourselves

The play is set in a garage and garden over four successive birthdays. Neil and Pam arrive to buy a car from the technically inept Dennis and his wife Vera, who cares for Dennis's over-bearing mother who shares the house with them.Over the course of a year, we see the two couples fall apart. Neil and Pam's relationship becomes increasingly bitter, not helped by Neil's reliance on emotional and financial advice from the ill-equipped Dennis. Meanwhile, Vera is driven increasingly desperate by Dennis's lack of attention and the constant jibes of his mother. Dennis, far from being evil, has absolutely no comprehension of what his wife is going through and marches cheerfully on oblivious to events around him. Vera is eventually driven into a catatonic state with Dennis still unable to understand what has happened to Vera or to even acknowledge a problem exists.