Love is the drug in Lucy Prebble’s sad, thoughtful drama. Or is it vice versa? Tristan (a livewire Paapa Essiedu and Connie (Taylor Russell, the Canadian star of Bones and All, quietly mesmerising in her stage debut) fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant. Their feelings could be real or a side-effect.
A play of ideas about the way our brains work is welded to a ruthless 100-minute emotional arc, laced with wit and given a bittersweet ending. It receives a typically stark, urgent production from Jamie Lloyd which left me impressed and stimulated but also weirdly flat.
