Court. Due to this, we feel that there are many avenues to explore both aesthetically and conceptually with our production of the play.
Reviews from Royal Court production:
‘This new, darkly comic domestic drama by Gary Owen is superbly acted and really gets inside its characters' heads… every teenager should see this’ says Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph.
‘Performed in a circular, low-walled environment that combines drab domesticity with the menace of a bull-ring – an overhead array of lights conjuring an intermittent hint of Tardis - Hamish Pirie’s superbly acted production matches the finesse of Owen’s writing which ably ranges from the local to the universal.’
‘Really, the play is a string of ethical dilemmas and Owen dives headfirst into the greyest of grey areas. Beneath the surface, it's a study of consent and culpability.
Big questions and, thankfully, not a clear-cut answer in sight - but the dilemmas do tend to stall the action. It's a play spent umming and ahhing; a will-he-or-won't-he-kind of play that dilly-dallies as it deliberates. Owen never lets it off the leash and, ironically enough, it can be constrained by its self-control. Director Hamish Pirie has to artificially induce a sense of danger by giving Rick a sledgehammer that he may or may not use. Chekhov's gun has to go off. This is Pirie's red herring.’
- WhatOnStage, Matt Truman
‘Although we never see outside the sitting room of designer Cai Dyfan’s low, drum-shaped space, we’re made aware these characters live in a culture of easily accepted sexual harassment against women. All four actors excel in Hamish Pirie’s confident production, with Hughes imbuing Rick with a rangy, coiled energy. Excellent.’
- Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard
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