A Year and a Day is performed by writer Christopher Sainton-Clark. Spanning just over two months during Nathan’s life yet sixty-five years of his girlfriend’s, friends and family’s life the story begins in County Meath in Ireland and brings us across to Norfolk.
Sainton-Clark draws the audience in from the beginning as he shakes nervously awaiting for the trigger to be pulled. However, this is not the end of the story simply the part of it which grabs your attention and hooks you into the journey of Nathan’s experiences.
Nathan is a small-time criminal trying to get by in life, his Father is bedridden reasons for which are uncovered as the story unfolds and his Mother works hard yet struggles to get by which creates debts they cannot afford. Adding pressure and worry to the household. Life is tough for all of them and getting by is a struggle.
Nathan spends much of his free time on the heath with his friend Sam and his girlfriend Elsie. Between them, they hatch a plan to make some serious money by deceptive means, but things do not go as they should meaning relationships and lives change forever with devastating outcomes.
The storytelling by Sainton-Clark keeps the audience captivated throughout and you become strongly invested in the storyline. Nathan suffers a life-changing event which means he loses a year each time he falls asleep and has to catch up on the year that just passed each time he wakes back up. However, although to him only a day has passed those around him are ageing rapidly and life changes fast.
A Year and a Day offers a thought-provoking storyline of love and an unexplained phenomenon that changes everyone’s destiny in an instant.
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Four Stars
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