THE EFFECT (MALVERN THEATRE PLAYERS)

When:
19 September, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
2024-09-19T19:30:00+01:00
2024-09-19T22:00:00+01:00
Where:
The Coach House Theatre
Cost:
£16 (Price includes 12% booking fee)
Contact:
Malvern Theatres
01684 892277

 

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard


Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s