Overview
Polar Bears is a captivating tale by
award-winning writer Mark Haddon.
Balancing humour and pathos, it tells of one man's struggle to love,
support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition.
With an elliptical structure and teasing timeline, the play handles the
subject sensitively, with vivid, sympathetically-drawn characters and
nicely-balanced dialectics. Polar Bears is thought-provoking and
intelligent, with echoes of Nietszchean philosophy, and it refuses to
offer any easy answers for those embroiled in mental instability. The
plot is as follows: John has never met anyone like Kay. When the moon is
in the right phase, she is magnetic and amazingly alive. But when the
darkness closes in, she is lost to another world, a world in which John
does not belong.