Lucy Kirkwood ranks among the very best contemporary playwrights. In Mosquitoes, she highlights the intriguing battlefield between the extreme opposites of human destinies and truths. The play centres on two sisters: Alice, a brilliant physicist on the brink of a groundbreaking discovery, who is committed to her work relentlessly, and Jenny, mired in grief, burdened by being a carer for their demented mother, and captivated by endless conspiracy theories. This dynamic is joined by members of their family and companions, each of them emphatically powerless, but with a desperate lust for life.  Both Jenny and Alice are, on a symbolic level, metaphors for the world we live in. A world of (self-)righteous individuals who are incapable of listening and hearing others.