Two charismatic actors; one confined setting. These are the only ingredients you need for drama – or as Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads otherwise proved, one actor will do – so why does Tom Geen’s sophomore effort feel so stale, uninspired, and completely like something we’ve seen many times before?

We meet John and Karen in the wilderness where, as the title informs us matter-of-factly, the two live in a mossy hole, carving a life off the land and surviving day-to-day on the sparse…
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