Generations - TNT
5th March
A life-affirming choir and the aroma of frying onions transform this intimate space into a South African kitchen where three generations bicker teasingly about who can or can't cook. But the tentative delight in a new romance is soon diminished as, one by one, the younger members succumb to an unnamed disease (by inference, Aids). As the family is depleted, the spare, circular dialogue is reiterated by those that remain, the tone subtly changing with each repetition. Moving and evocative, this beautifully acted though oblique production of Debbie Tucker Green's new work welcomes you with a smile — but sends you home (a mere 30 minutes later) saddened by the implications of what you have seen.

The Maria at the Young Vic, The Cut, SE1 0-7922 2925
Until March 10

LOUISE KINGSLEY