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Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal (Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

Andrew Haigh’s devastating meditation on love, loss, and the power of grief and
loneliness is a love story and ghost story in one. It stars Andrew Scott as a single gay
Londoner still struggling with the traumatic deaths of both parents in an accident
when he was 12, and Paul Mescal as his impishly flirtatious downstairs neighbour.
Scott’s character “visits” his two parents’ spirits to have modern conversations about
his sexuality, their lives together, and the loss that he has suffered. Recalling the

scenes of his parents – played with lived-in 80s verve by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell – is
enough to make me want to start weeping. Bring a hankie or three for this one. CN

26 January

Comedy

Tamsyn Kelly: Crying in TK Maxx

This will be Cornish comedian Tamsyn Kelly’s debut stand-up tour, but after an
acclaimed run in Edinburgh, Crying in TK Maxx has marked her out as a rising star of

the UK scene. Directed by double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Amy Gledhill,
the show sees Kelly explore her relationship with men, prompted by a break-up and
the chance appearance of her estranged father in a random documentary. It’s a
sparkling party of a show, with a streak of darkness and self-reflection, all topped off
with a massive helping of Mr Blobby. RH