Written by: Simon Gray
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'Sophisticated and witty, a modern classic of English high comedy' The Daily Telegraph
'**** Extremely funny, excellent revival' The Times
'A pleasurable and rewarding evening' The Independent
'Wonderfully funny' The Daily Telegraph
'Very funny' Guardian
'Witty sophistication stands test of time' The Daily Telegraph
'Refreshingly unsentimental humour' The Times
'A terrific final scene of marital discord and rueful black comedy' Evening Standard
'Elegant one-liners, richly-drawn characters and Gray's brilliant delaying tactics? to delivering the coup de grace of a running gag' The Daily Telegraph
'A mixture of illicit sexual satisfaction and moral guilt' Guardian
'Simon Curtis's entertaining, well-paced production' The Independent
'Line by line and scene by scene the play is consistently amusing' The Daily Telegraph
'The play is brilliant' The Express
'Darkly comic aplomb and a high degree of psychological shrewdness' The Independent
'Immaculately acted production' What's on Stage
'Richly textured play that deploys a constant stream of laughter to brilliantly mask the pain that courses through it, as poignant as it is funny' What's on Stage
'The supporting characters in Simon Cutis's production are all superbly played too' The Daily Telegraph
'The cast are spot on' The Independent
'There's excellent support from Peter Wight as his brother, Anthony Head as his best friend Jeff, Amanda Drew as his cuckolding wife Beth and in particular David Bamber as a cuckolded fiancée who drops by with his own disturbing agenda' What's on Stage
'Grant is excellent' The Guardian
'Grant delivers the epigrammatic dialogue with assured panache' The Daily Telegraph
'Richard E. Grant is a masterly Simon' Daily Mail
'Anthony Head proves persuasively vile as the brazen, boozing journalist' The Daily Telegraph
'Magnificently done by Anthony Head' Daily Mail
'Hilariously conveyed in the excellent performance of Anthony Head' The Independent
'Peter Wight hugely touching as the anxious brother' The Daily Telegraph
'Firm support from David Bamber' The Guardian
'Lovely work from David Bamber and Amanda Drew' The Daily Telegraph
'David Bamber skilfully radiates the moral BO of the aggrieved masochist' The Independent
'Amanda Drew superbly projects the smouldering indignant hurt of the underestimated wife' The Independent
'Amanda Drew, impressively pained as his wife' Evening Standard