Sex with a Stranger - Trafalgar Studios
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2013-05-19
Adam (Russell Tovey) snubs his girlfriend Ruth (Naomi Sheldon), and leaves her at home while he goes out for a mate's birthday. Later that evening he picks up Grace (Jaime Winstone) at a club and gets the nightbus back to hers. Bleak, funny and excruciatin...
Adam (Russell Tovey) snubs his girlfriend Ruth (Naomi Sheldon), and leaves her at home while he goes out for a mate's birthday. Later that evening he picks up Grace (Jaime Winstone) 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.
Both pieces contain a cruel twist, or rather a malign stroke of fate, that it would be a crime to give away but which add some exceedingly dark shadows, and both are superb on the subject of sex – frank, even graphic, but full of truth, tenderness and delight.
Show Details
| Running dates | from Feb 8 2012 to Feb 25 2012 |
| Theatre | Trafalgar Studios |
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| My Rating | Review This Show |
| Cheapest ticket | £25 |
| Most expensive ticket | £28 |
| Michael Coveney (What's on Stage, Independent) | Full Review | |
| Henry Hitchings (Evening Standard) | Full Review | |
| Paul Taylor (The Independent) | Full Review | |
| Dominic Maxwell (The Times) | Full Review | |
| Charles Spencer (The Telegraph) | Full Review | |
| Michael Billington (The Guardian) | Full Review | |
| Ian Shuttleworth (Financial Times) | Full Review | |
| Caroline McGinn (Time Out) | Full Review |
| Great play with stunning performances, though there were a few flashbacks to my mid twenties that made me inwardly cringe. Russell Tovey brings everything he does so well in him and her on BBC3 plus you get to see him in his calvins. And Jaime Winstone clearly inherited her Dad's genes. The staging is well done, and the sound guy does a great job. Fabulous! |
Overview, Cast and Creatives
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Synopsis | ||
| Adam (Russell Tovey) snubs his girlfriend Ruth (Naomi Sheldon), and leaves her at home while he goes out for a mate's birthday. Later that evening he picks up Grace (Jaime Winstone) 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. Both pieces contain a cruel twist, or rather a malign stroke of fate, that it would be a crime to give away but which add some exceedingly dark shadows, and both are superb on the subject of sex – frank, even graphic, but full of truth, tenderness and delight. |
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| Author | Stefan Golaszewski | |
| Director | Phillip Breen | |
| Featured Actors/Actresses | Jaime Winstone | |
| Naomi Sheldon | ||
| Russell Tovey | ||