Identical (Nottingham Playhouse)
Rating:
Verdict: A sweet treat
Two ten-year-old, lonely only children at summer camp come up against their mirror image.
'That girl's got a nerve, turning up with your face,' says a trouble-making chum.
Spiteful plait-pulling turns into tearful hugs with the miraculous discovery that they are in fact twins: a secret buried by their divorced parents.

Cue 'You're my sister… oh, how beautiful that sounds', as catchy as it is touching.




Director Trevor Nunn, former RSC supremo, well-versed with Shakespeare's tragicomedies of errors involving the muddles, miseries and merriment of mistaken identities, impressively brings out both the farce and the fragility of this complicated family situation in which people who belong together have been painfully pulled apart.