Work It Out – HOME Mcr
“Five, six, seven, eight - step right, swimming motion, move like Jagger, turn and again!”
Exercise is good for us. We all know that. It is beneficial not just because it helps to shed a few pounds, it also gives a much-needed boost to our mental health. Progress over perfection is the key to success.
Writer Eve Steele has produced a play so full of heart you can hear it pounding like the ticker of an unfit beginner at their first exercise class. This finely judged play is polemical when it needs to be, veers on the right side of sentimentality and brings together a wonderfully disparate group of characters. Together they become their own little mini community.
They all have their problems including drug addiction, alcoholism, hoarding and overeating. Damaged and defeated they com...