We Had a World review – a playwright torn between his warring mother and grandmother

Hampstead theatre, London Joshua Harmon studies his family’s fraught matriarchal relations in this thoughtful drama In an empathetic act of theatrical archivism, American playwright Joshua Harmon ( Bad Jews ) follows the shifting, sinking relationship between his mother and grandmother. Tracing the family’s fractures back through Harmon’s life, We Had a World is a thoughtful if sedate staging of duty, care and the relational ties that can’t be shaken loose. Renee (Suzanne Bertish) is a far better grandmother than she ever was a mother. Bertish sparkles in the freewheeling role, in turns elegan

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