Eva Morton (Anne Kidd) is searching the house for an endowment policy that is shortly to mature, giving her and husband Jack (Dave Anderson) a large sum of money. She is trying to decide how to spend it. She makes several suggestions, including foreign holidays and a time-share in Spain but he shoots down all her ideas. He starts talking about happiness and reminiscing on the days when they were young. He doesn't think they need a lot of money to be happy.

There is an invisible third person in the room, their daughter Eilidh and they constantly ask her opinion on how to spend the money. Eilidh is visiting her parents because it is her birthday.

Eva phones the Insurance Company and is told that Jack has already cashed in the policy. Jack tells her he has given their windfall to Eilidh so that she can open a tanning salon. Eva is angry at not being consulted and rages that their daughter has always been able to twist her dad round her little finger.

Then the play takes a bizarre twist and it becomes apparent that the whole scenario, the discussion on how the money is to be spent and the row between the couple is some kind of ritual that takes place every year.

Dave Anderson is totally convincing in the role of Jack, but I felt that Anne Kidd overplayed the part of Eva, turning her into some kind of stereotypical absent-minded OAP as she shuffled around in fur-trimmed slippers.

Is this Jackie Kay's characterisation or Anne's interpretation? Do they actually know any retired women who look and act like Eva?

Apart from that little niggle I found TWO really enjoyable with its mix of humour and pathos, drawing in the audience so that they really care about Jack and Eva and the sadness in their lives.