Dryden and Upton both write truthfully about the tensions of sisterhood and mother-daughter relationships. Maybe they should get together since each has dramatic virtues which the other could profitably use. Twenty-something Aimee visits her sister Pola in Hastings. Aimee is about to leave for Cyprus with her fiance, Sam, an older man and a travel agent to boot. Not surprisingly, she and the conservative Sam hate each other from the off.
Sunspots is a difficult, resolutely unschematic play.
But there are good things here, in the text as well as the performances. Upton's a playful writer who likes nothing better than to upset expectations. Aimee not drop-out Pola who believes in the power of crystals to heal. And that contrariness is true of the plot, too. You thought this was a tale of redemption through illness, or self discovery through sex.