Infinite Life (National Theatre) London Reviews and Tickets

“James Macdonald’s understated production is exquisitely acted and contains a late contender for the year’s best line.”
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"Baker teases us with the prospect of a romantic – or raunchy – twist, the possibility of carnality lunged-at as an improvised remedy, but then moves on into terrain more stoical, stirring and subtly complex."
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“Baker cleverly keeps sentimentality at bay throughout...Baker’s women are the real thing — complex and contradictory.”
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“This is a terrific play, understated yet rich, utterly engrossing.”
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“Baker’s latest work...is an absorbing meditation on pain, mortality and our ambivalent relationship with our bodies. In a sensitive production by James Macdonald with a woozy, heat-haze atmosphere, it is quietly riveting and stealthily moving.”
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“This brilliant play is full of such small wonders: gentler echoes of the miracle cure that each patient longs for, in vain.”
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"'Infinite Life,' is alive with meaning and our metaphor detectors start buzzing: is this little world going to stand in for the wider world and the frailty of the human condition, or is it a comic slice-of-life about kooky Americans obsessed with health? It’s sort of both, never belabouring its potential for the metaphorical, yet rising far beyond its sitcom-ish set-up."
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“Pain in all its forms seems to be Baker’s main focus in Infinite Life, and her writing subtly but skillfully explores the multiple aspects of this underrecognised condition...Ultimately, while the writing explores fascinating themes and the characters possess intriguing personalities, the absence of character development or transformative journeys fails to fully engage the audience in this play.”
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