Avalanche: A Love Story review " Maxine Peake trapped in desperate IVF drama
Barbican, LondonPeake's anguished Woman goes through six rounds of fertility treatment in Julia Leigh's adaptation of her own memoir As part of the Barbican's first Fertility Fest, Julia Leigh adapts her 2016 memoir detailing six unsuccessful rounds of IVF treatment. Maxine Peake offers a wild exhaustion as Leigh's Woman, consumed by the desperation to conceive, but her performance is stifled by a formulaic script th…