A West End transfer should surely beckon for this savagely funny comedy
This is a splendid start to the autumn’s theatre: a rollicking new comedy that turns into a blistering interrogation of friendship, relationships, wealth and identity politics. Comedian, has scored a bullseye with her savagely funny debut play.
This is quite the week for dramas about friction and fireworks between and among two sets of couples. Yet the revival of Yasmina Reza’s, which also opened last night, has nothing on the blistering power that Frances-White and her fine cast, which includes a splendid Greg Wise, unleash here. We’re in the boutique restaurant run by Jacq and Kas , but financed by Tobin , the wealthy older husband of their university friend Adaego . The restaurant has gone bankrupt and Jacq and Kas wait nervously to deliver the news to their backer. The other pair arrive, fragrant with wealth, confidence and seemingly impeccable liberal credentials. Tobin, who runs a “sustainable hedge fund”, is the sort of person who talks a lot about how important it is to stop talking and listen instead.
The humour zings from the start. Both couples enjoy their own private drinking games and when the quartet embarks ill-advisedly on the “Never Have I Ever” of the title, all hell breaks loose – and the gloves of social nicety are brutally ripped off. Positions are taken – Jacq is proudly working class, Adaego sees covert racism everywhere, Tobin is tired of getting castigated for being a straight white male, whereas Kas simply wants to keep the peace – and loudly re-iterated.
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