Wanderlust
From: Thursday, 9th September 2010
To: Saturday, 9 October 2010
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Synopsis
"Sex isn’t just about how big and how long. Isn’t it? No. What is it about then? All sorts of things." Joy is a married woman, a GP, and struggling to remain interested in sex. Her husband Alan, however, thinks of little else. And their teenage son Tim is ready to burst.
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Michael Coveney - 20 September 2010
Talented new playwright Nick Payne has bagged the George Devine Award following his hilarious If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet at the Bush last year; Wanderlust is more closely structured, and fresh and funny about adolescent sex, playing away and a stuttering middle-class marriage.
This is a highly explicit small-scale composition: simulated scenes of oral sex, fumbling sex, fantasy sex, rampant sex and - when Joy (Pippa Haywood) and Stephen (Charles Edwards), an ex-lover, sit down for a naked (not quite) picnic - simmering sex, fall over each other in merry Rabelaisian profusion.
Joy is a doctor married to English teacher and departmental head Alan (Stuart McQuarrie). Stephen comes to see Joy in her surgery about suspected thrush. Alan is pinioned by romantically frustrated Clare (Sian Brooke) in his office. The mixed doubles go to a bar and intermingle unwittingly in Simon Goodwin’s clever, clinical staging.
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David Baxter - 9 October 2010:
Last time I was at the Royal Court was to see the brilliant Clybourne Park. Seven days later I am left wondering about the judgement of whoever agreed to produce Wanderlust. Nick Payne's mercifully short play is supposed to be an exploration of sex and intimacy but is actually the sort of adolescent pseudo-porn we used to churn out at school to try (and fail) to impress our mates. The cast perform heroically given the tosh they are required to endure and particular plaudits must go to Isabella Laughland who manages to be remarkably sweet as Michelle, the most ridiculous product of Payne's peurile fantasies. Embarrassing on almost every level....
Cast
Sian Brooke
Charles Edwards
Pippa Haywood (Joy)
Isabella Laughland
Stuart McQuarrie (Alan)
James Musgrave (Tim)
Howard Ward
Creative
Nick Payne (Author)
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Simon Godwin (Director)
Robert Innes Hopkins (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Tom Mills (Music)
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