My Week With Maisy: Short Review. By Joe Muldoon.

The tight-lipped Mrs Foster (Joanna Lumley) and the precocious Maisy (Ellie-Mae
Siame) have been assigned to the same cancer treatment suite. Maisy is some way through her chemotherapy, already friends with the bantering oncology attendants, Nurse Gaby (MyAnna Buring) and Nurse Lucy (Poppy Gilbert).

Mrs Foster, played wonderfully by Lumley, is decidedly guarded about her presence in the treatment suite, hesitant to call her son about her vulnerable condition.

As the two ladies begin to establish a rapport with one another over the following days, a real charming cheekiness emerges, the generational gaps between them bridged by innocent curiosity – much to the retiree’s bemusement, Mrs Foster is asked by Maisy if she’s a lesbian.

Siame is fantastic as Maisy, bringing a delicate balance of innocence and maturity; despite knowing that her condition is terminal, the young girl remains cheerful and quips to her new comrade that, “if we’re going to die soon, the least they can do is let us have nice wigs”.

And despite the subject matter, My Week With Maisy retains a certain jovial, humorous tone, very appropriately supplemented by the vibrant set and costume design, with the suite’s bright, pink walls and Maisy’s sunny, orange clothing.

Though never dampening the severity of the disease, director Mika Simmons and writer Mark Oxtoby steer away from pure miserabilism, instead highlighting the importance of hope and healing.

By Joe Muldoon.

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