The Effect
From: Tuesday, 6th November 2012
To: Saturday, 23 February 2013
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Synopsis
A clinical romance. This funny and moving new play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 14 November 2012
The Cottesloe has been transformed into a medical centre and reception area, with some immensely comfortable new beige banquettes - can we keep those, please? - for ENRON author Lucy Prebble’s new play about analysing the behaviour of drug-taking volunteers in a commercial scheme investigating the causes of depression.
Depression, of course, can be caused by plays about depression, and I’m not sure whether Prebble is exposing a drugs company scandal in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry or whether she’s writing an unusual love story between Billie Piper's depressed and wounded Connie, a university psychology student, and Jonjo O'Neill's hyper, frenzied Tristan, who just happen to share the same birthday.
She’s doing both, really, and Rupert Goold's characteristically bravura staging, a co-production between the National and his Headlong touring company, played out on beds, tables and the open carpet of a fictional drugs co...
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David Baxter - 31 January 2013:
The creative team behind Enron have reunited for a thoughtful and often brilliant examination of the ethics of medical research and of the nature and treatment of depression. Billie Piper and Jonjo O'Neill are superb as the two volunteers who develop an irresistable attraction for each other that may be real but might be attributable to the drug they are testing. Anastasia Hille is excellent as the clinical psychologist conducting the trial before succumbing to depression herself and Tom Goodman-Hill impresses as always as the psychiatrist with flexible ethics and an array of agendas. The second half could do with having 10-15 minutes lopped off as it gets a bit bogged down with restating arguments in a less interesting way but there is no doubt that Lucy Prebble is a remarkable writer and The Effect loses little in comparison to the astonishing Enron....
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Lucy Prebble (Author)
Headlong (Producer)
National Theatre (Producer)
Rupert Goold (Director)
Miriam Buether (Design)
Jon Clark (Lighting)
Christopher Shutt (Sound)
Jon Driscoll (projection) (Design)
Sarah Angliss (Music)
Aletta Collins (movement) (Director)
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