This struck me as a well acted and well-staged evening but the play itself did not quite match my expectations. As it is, we have Alan Davies playing a middle-aged physics Professor, Henry, who is tackled by a student - Edie on whether the ideas of physics require as much faith as the existence of God. For some reason (and the hint is of sexual attraction), he embarks on a book looking at the probability and possibility of various miracles such as turning water into wine. The book becomes a best-seller and Henry's status in the world swiftly comes to eclipse that of his rock-star atheist wife Virginia. Mixed in with all this is Henry's colleague, Tim, who employs Epstein-like methods for bedding his students before being sacked by the university after Edie releases a tape of his seduction technique.
So we have, as the crtics point out, something of a muddle of which plot to follow. Is it the domestic issues between Henry, Virginia and Edie or the philosophical issues of God? If the former, then the play by David Baddiel does not really take us anywhere new - We are just presented with a few well-worn caricatures. Sadly though, the exploration of God is also lacking. All we get is the unpicking of a few miracles.
All that said, I found it an evening that passed easily enough and it was quite interesting to watch the domestic drama unfold and the full bizareness of Edie to be revealed - she ends up as a priestess to her Christian sect with a somewhat drooling Henry looking on, having sneaked away without telling Virginia the truth of where he is going.
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