Half Life

Half Life is a gentle and humourous exploration of how vital and filled with yearning people are as they get older and how indifferently we relate to them. Mathematician and playwright John Mighton is fascinated with the patterns and quasi-patterns our lives throw up. Clara is in a wheelchair and her memory is failing but sometimes what she says has its own beauty. Patrick, a new admission to the old peoples’ home, also has gaps in his memories but he’s cagey about his codebreaking past and is a bit of an escapeologist. Clara and Patrick are attracted to each other; the rest is history.