Mass – Donmar Warehouse
This is a play about restorative justice. Two couples, the parents of their sons who were involved in a school shooting some years ago meet for the first time in a church meeting room. One couple are the parents of a child who was shot and the other of the shooter. Both sons were killed in the incident.
As would be expected there was a substantial amount of apprehension on the part of both couples about meeting face-to-face for the first time. They sit one on each side of the table and talk. That is basically all that happens in this play for 90 minutes of its 1 hour 40 mins playing time. We gradually learned about the events which happened on that fateful day, and the background, particularly of the shooter in the years preceding and the anguish of both se...