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One additional heartbreak for the parents of terminally ill children is that their youngsters often seem to display a maturity of character and insight far beyond their years.
Review by Nick Brunger
So it is with 'Spoonface Steinberg', a seven year old autistic girl who is dying of cancer.
Originally an award-winning production for Radio 4 the play is a heart-warming, funny and moving story about life, death and faith told from the girl's viewpoint.
Nicknamed 'Spoonface' because of her unusually rounded features that first drew doctor's attention to her physical plight, her perception of events around her is acute even if her thoughts are a little jumbled.
She believes that her autism is God-given while her mother blames a tumble and a bump on the head suffered while her parents were rowing over her father's infidelity.
Set in Spoonface's bedroom with her desk and duvet and cluttered by her toys and crayons she questions and investigates the world around her - echoing the words of her parents, Mrs Spud the cleaning lady, and her physician Dr Bernstein.
As a child moving in a medical world dominated by adults she rejects the usual trappings of childhood - mocking a fellow patient in a coma whose family play her extracts from recordings by 'Take That' and Robbie Williams.
Instead Spoonface prefers the music of the great operas, likening her dying to that of the singers fluttering like birds as they pass away on stage.
Illustrated by the music of Maria Callas, the words are provided by Lee Hall - much in demand these days thanks to the success of his screenplay for 'Billy Elliot'.
Beautifully observed by Kathryn Edwards to direction by Di Richards, this adult actress doesn't attempt to play Spoonface as a seven year old.
Clad in bright pyjamas, her interpretation is a perfect bridge between an authentic portrayal of a small child and the maturity of insight that terminal illness bestows.
Performed in a studio setting in the Lace Market bar - with the audience sat just an arm's length away - Kathryn drew prolonged and well-deserved applause on the opening night for this single-handed show.