Spur of the Moment
Royal Court, until 21 August
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Young Vic, until 21 August
Henry IV Part 2
Shakespeare’s Globe, until 3 October
It used to be policemen, now playwrights are getting younger too. Spur of the Moment is a debut work by Anya Reiss, who hasn’t left the sixth form yet. Her play takes us into a nice middle-class home where wars over money and sex are raging. Dad has blundered at work. An office fling has earned him the sack, left him in debt and turned his wife into a cauldron of jealousy. The family has taken in a lodger, Daniel, a wan and handsome 21-year-old student. Mum flirts aggressively with him, hoping to inflict some retaliatory scars on her faithless husband, but Daniel is taken by the couple’s gorgeous and precocious 12-year-old daughter, Delilah.
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