This production had the audience gripped for its 90 minutes with hardly a cough being heard. The play works backwards from the end of an affair to its beginning. Tom Hiddleston stars as the husband whose wife and best friend embark on an affair which is revealed to him during a trip to Venice when the wife receives a letter from her lover.
Under the direction of Jamie Lloyd, the actors deliver their lines at a volume that is just audible but one is left feeling one is over-hearing the intimate revelations of their complicated lives. The subject matter is familiar, yet the play challenges one to think about the motivations for embarking on an affair and to face up to the near inevitable trajectory that it will take.
All in all an excellent if somewhat over-priced ninety minutes that left me wanting to buy the text.
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