Our Share of Tomorrow

Dan Sherer's one-hour play is more character study than story, using a basic situation to examine and empathise with three figures who are each emotionally damaged but determined to carry on as best they can.

A 15-year-old girl travels to meet the father she never knew, accepting the assistance on the way of an older man who is estranged from his own daughter. Each of the three reach out in their own ways to each of the others, but the connections made are not strong enough to do more than offer a little comfort after they have gone their separate ways again.
Sherer tells the story from the middle outward, beginning with the girl on her way and then matching each scene of what comes next with a flashback to what came before.
The device may be more ponderous than it's worth, although it does let an awareness of the future colour our vision of the past, and vice-versa, and the playwright's inexperience shows in his having to let one character spell out the message of self-acceptance and self-forgiveness rather than being able to dramatise it.
As directed by the author, Jot Davies (father), Tamsin Joanna Kennard (daughter) and Toby Sawyer (protector) capture the tentativeness of those who have too little to be able to risk opening up to others.