Man’s Best Friend review – lockdown, loneliness and a pack of cute canines

Tron theatre, GlasgowDouglas Maxwell’s monologue about a dog walker moves from lighthearted to maudlin as it evokes a world in limboA few blocks down the road on Argyle Street, a stall is promoting conspiracy theories about AstraZeneca. Every side is pasted with neurotic headlines misinforming passersby about vaccines. It is an odd, not to mention dangerous, throwback to the pandemic.So, too, in its own benign way, is Douglas Maxwell’s play. It is not just that Man’s Best Friend concerns a lockdown-era bereavement, a hospital stay in isolation and a funeral on Zoom. It is also that its themes are steeped in those strange months when it felt we had been plucked out of time. Maxwell evokes the days when past and future were denied us.At Tron theatre, Glasgow, until 12 July; then touring, 3–27 September Continue reading...

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