Sex With A Stranger
Stefan Golaszewski
Sex With A Stranger
Adam snubs his girlfriend Ruth, and leaves her at home while he goes out for a mate's birthday. Later that evening he picks up Grace at a club and gets the nightbus back to hers. Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate Golaszewski's play locates the place where three lives - with all that has gone before, and all is yet to happen - entwine in a cheerless morass of uncertainly, boredom, loneliness and empty lust.
3.6 out of 5 based on 8 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Location |
London |
| Venue |
Trafalgar Studios |
| Director |
Philip Breen |
| Cast |
Jamie Winstone, Naomi Sheldon Russel Tovey |
| From |
February 2012 |
| Until |
February 2012 |
| Box Office |
0845 505 8500 |
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Adam snubs his girlfriend Ruth, and leaves her at home while he goes out for a mate's birthday. Later that evening he picks up Grace at a club and gets the nightbus back to hers. Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate Golaszewski's play locates the place where three lives - with all that has gone before, and all is yet to happen - entwine in a cheerless morass of uncertainly, boredom, loneliness and empty lust.
Reviews
The Evening Standard
Henry Hitchings
“Although the material is slight, it's eerily well observed and shrewdly woven together.”
07/02/2012
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The Daily Telegraph
Charles Spencer
“Artistically subtle, with its clever, non-linear time scheme ... There is a sense of ice at this play’s heart, and one leaves it with a shiver.”
07/02/2012
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The Independent
Paul Taylor
“You can't put an ironing board on stage without invoking Look Back in Anger. Here, though, it's a case of John Osborne, eat your heart out, as we watch, in weirdly rapt and respectful silence, a young woman named Ruth perform the entire business of ironing her partner's package-creased new shirt.
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07/02/2012
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The Observer
Tom Lamont
“It starts to feel like an over-extended sketch about the ritual of one-night stands when the story suddenly broadens into something knottier, more sinister. Is that really a genial vacancy in Adam's manner or a deeper misanthropy?
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12/02/2012
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The Stage
Ben Dowell
“It’s unpleasant, sad, dreary, hilarious and never less than painfully plausible. The writer hovers over each awful nugget of small talk and awkward silence, constantly fascinated by ordinariness.”
07/02/2012
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The Sunday Times
Jonathan Dean
“Anything but simple, saddled with a time-jumping narrative that favours gimmicks over fleshing out its characters.
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12/02/2012
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The Times
Dominic Maxwell
“Stage time is dominated by the banality, frustration and pre-coital rigamarole that most such stories skate over. I’m not convinced that the conceit quite sustains all of its 80 minutes ... But Golaszewski’s smart structure and sharp eye and Phillip Breen’s beautifully acted production ensure that those boring bits are never actually boring.”
08/02/2012
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The Guardian
Michael Billington
“All one can say is that Golaszewski, for a male dramatist, shows a rare understanding of female distress.”
07/02/2012
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