Theatre review: Fred & Alice
The key to being happy is to accept your limitations, says Alice at the end of this utterly beguiling two-hander, in which both characters have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) but are much more than that label.
Cora Fenton plays Alice, an energetic, passionate young woman, who is upbeat most of the time but has moments of sadness, bewilderment and a blackness that her boyfriend, Fred, is attuned to. Fred is excellently played by Ciarán Bermingham who, with his facial contortions and sometimes awkward body movements, suggests an inner frustration as he tries to communicate and is given to obsessing over music and words. For him, there is music in words.
