Complicité – Jack Studio Theatre
This is the new play written and directed by Finn Lanchester. It is 65 minute whirlwind of humour, ideas and physicality. Simon a primary school teacher has been handcuffed to a tree as part of an anti-oil climate demonstration and abandoned by his colleagues. At 3 am in the morning he is encountered by Benoit, a smoothly dressed French oil company executive slightly worse for drink. Thus, the scene is set for a heated debate on the merits or otherwise of oil extraction and the threat it poses to our planet when out of blue an immediate existential threat manifests from a completely different source.
This is a very fast-paced piece performed to a very high standard by the two actors. Alex Westwood made a very believable Simon: naïve, sexually repressed with views based...