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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Anya Ryan

Slippery review – lust and longing are in the air, long after the party is over

Perry Williams as Kyle and John McCrea as Jude in Slippery at Omnibus theatre.
Divergent lives … Perry Williams as Kyle and John McCrea as Jude in Slippery at Omnibus theatre. Photograph: Ali Wright

History is supposed to stay, well, history. But in Louis Emmitt-Stern’s Tony Craze award-winning play, it tumbles face first into the present. Ten years ago, Jude (John McCrea) and Kyle (Perry Williams) were a couple who relished all things hedonistic, and partying into the early hours on a cocktail of drink and drugs. That was until they broke up and Kyle disappeared.

Now they find themselves together again in Jude’s Canary Wharf penthouse in the middle of the night, after he has a nasty fall and Kyle is unexpectedly called to the hospital as his emergency contact. Years have passed and their lives have diverged: Kyle has left behind the party lifestyle while Jude is in the early days of grief following the death of his partner, Sam. Both are working hard to keep up appearances. But as they talk, cook spaghetti carbonara and catch up on all that’s changed, their lies begin to crack open.

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