Half Life

This award-winning comedy is a love story between two elderly residents in a nursing home.

Patrick was a mathematician and codebreaker, Clara is a beautiful innocent with a fading memory. Will their adult children be able to come to terms with their own feelings as the romance between their parents blossoms?

Half Life explores the nature of memory and aging and the transformative power of love with humour and tenderness.

Nancy Meckler returns to the Ustinov Studio having directed the hugely-acclaimed Play Strindberg in the 2014 season of Three Black Comedies. The first woman to direct at the National Theatre (with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), she is best known for her work with the universally-acclaimed Shared Experience for whom her productions included the award-winning Anna Karenina, Heartbreak House, True West, The Birthday Party and Bronte.

John Mighton is an acclaimed Canadian playwright (A Short History of Night, Body and Soul, Scientific Americans and The Little Years). He is also a professor of mathematics. He was a script advisor on the film Good Will Hunting and his play Possible Worlds was made into a film directed by Robert Lepage.