Mike Bartlett's already on his second Brexit play (third, if you count
Love, Love, Love as foreshadowing, which next year's revival will almost certainly feel like.) Like
Albion (also returning in 2020) his latest puts the UK's breaking up into factions in microcosm, and
Snowflake manages both to create a metaphor and play it literally as a widower longs to reunite with his estranged daughter at Christmas. The play's first act is a monologue until its closing moments, and Bartlett plays with the concept of the unreliable narrator: In an empty church hall on Christmas Eve, Andy (Elliot Levey) rehearses for how he wants to greet his daughter Maya (Ellen Robertson) when he sees her for the first time in three years. Their relationship went sour after her mother died suddenly, and one argument in particular saw her walk out and break off all contact. She's now back in Oxford and Andy's hired out this hall as a neutral space for them to try and restart their relationship.
