You Are Here review – 1969 moon landings spark musical midlife adventure

Southwark Playhouse, London
Wendi Peters seizes the role of a suburbanite who is inspired by the lunar broadcast to embark on a spontaneous trip

Two men walked on the moon in the summer of 1969. Ten more followed in their footsteps over the next three years. All giant leaps for man - but what did it mean for womankind? You Are Here, given its UK premiere by the new musical-theatre company the Grey Area, imagines the moon's pull on a suburban Chicagoan, Diana.

Her Sunday nights have usually been spent with her husband, Gerard, watching the mock heroics of Bonanza, until the weekend when the lunar broadcast beams in some real-life heroes. Awestruck by their adventures, the same evening Diana drifts out of her house, into the dark, and on to a train going to the city for a spontaneous trip in which she revels in, and occasionally recoils from, her own independent spirit.