Contact review – Jonny Donahoe delivers a heated reunion at a bonfire of family photos

Òran Mór, Glasgow Blythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this bitter two-hander The arrival of a first baby changes everything.

It is not just the upheaval of fitting the child into your life: the shift is also psychological. Children become parents. Parents become grandparents. Responsibility and accountability move down a generation. That is why, in Jonny Donahoe ’s knotty, bitter two-hander, a man known only as Son (Mark Barrett) has called on Mother (Blythe…