Ingredient X

Synopsis

It's Saturday night and the judges are gathering for their prime-time slot, feeding the nation their weekly fix. Except the harshest critics are sitting on your sofa and the mute button doesn’t seem to work. A tough comedy about addiction.

Our Review:

Theo Bosanquet - 27 May 2010

What a barnstorming return this is for Nick Grosso, a writer who's been off the theatrical radar for nearly ten years.

This is kitchen sink drama, only now the sink sits on a faux-granite worksurface in a flashy warehouse apartment. But no amount of mod cons can disguise the fact that the situation these 30 and 40-somethings are in is a desperate one – all are dealing in various ways with the fall-out of addiction.

Katie's invited her friends Deanne and Rosanna round to watch X-Factor. Her partner Frank, a recovering drug addict, manfully puts up with them as they treat him like a barman, twice sending him out to fetch coke (as in cola) and ice. But when he disappears for more than half an hour, doubts about his whereabouts creep in, and Deanne and Rosanna, themselves haunted by their own failed relationships, delight in winding Katie up; “you're addicted to addicts” suggests Rosanna, helpfully.

Grosso touches on addictions of many ...

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Latest User Review

David Scull - 3 June 2010:

Saw this last night. A friend rang me to say don't bother but I had the tickets. I should've gone for a walk or just gone to sleep. anything would have been better. The court has successes such as Enron (Headlong play) and Jerusalem (former artistic director). The Wallace Shaun season was a waste of time. Posh average. Now this TERRIBLE piece. Has the theatre has been given too much credit? Who thought this could go on? ...

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