We never have to wait long for a new revival of Yasmina Reza’s play which, like her other great success Art, attracts starry casts to take on the particular rhythms of her savage takedown of middle-class civility every few years. This time it’s the turn of Freema Agyeman, familiar as Doctor Who companion Martha Jones, in a production directed by Nicholai La Barrie. It looks stylish but only comes alive in its final moments.
It’s a slowly unfolding grudge match: Veronica and Michael vs. Alan and Annette, two sets of parents whose boys have been involved in a fight. Over coffee they carefully, politely, discuss what happened. But the accord doesn’t last long and soon they’re drinking, slanging, ranting and (front row beware) throwing up.
