Reen has watched, she has listened. The story of Tommy's life is a complicated choreography, but Reen has studied the footwork, intricate, subtle, unvarying; again and again Vince and Tommy and Teresa and Rose dance the same steps. Centre-stage, Tommy is perversely bashful, he suggests a simple world, but around him the others leap and rush, gesture wildly, dealing out information in furious bursts.

Again and again they come back to their favourite tales. They take up their positions.

They begin.