Meetings review – cooking with postcolonialism in Mustapha Matura’s sparky drama

Nimble humour … Martina Laird (left) and Bethan Mary-James in Meetings at the Orange Tree theatre. Photograph: Marc Brenner

This drama takes place in a state-of-the-art kitchen that, as one half of its Trinidadian yuppie couple says, has everything but food.

Hugh (Kevin N Golding) and Jean (Martina Laird) are too high-powered to cook in Mustapha Matura’s sleek 1982 exploration of Caribbean society through the prism of an upwardly mobile marriage. She is launching a cigarette advertising campaign; he is commodifying clean water to sell back to the island.