As Alice and Ben settle into their beautiful new flat they realise that the family across the hall hope to be more than just good neighbours. Read more …
Soon, Juliette, Gilles, and their son François are wearing out the welcome mat; suggesting drinks, hors d’oeuvres and dancing. Things begin to heat up as innocent invitations lead to passionate encounters and unsettling revelations.
Written by award-winning Quebecois playwright Catherine-Anne Toupin and directed by former Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director, Sir Michael Boyd, Right Now is a play with a dark heart, a disquieting exploration of one woman’s crisis and darkest desires. It walks a delicate line between playful laughter and deep trauma, teasing and thrilling audiences from beginning to end.
It is a riveting production which confronts the implications of our pleasure, of our pain, and of our discrimination, and how they each in turn affect our reality.
Michael Boyd's staccato production is very good and punctuated by intense classical music. He really emphasises the humour, and the climactic scene, where everything goes completely bonkers, is an absolute delight.
Funny and unsettling.
This blazing and brilliant depiction of a grown-up nightmare.
Right Now says more about the dark recesses of the writer’s mind than anything universal about humanity.
Unsettling, unnerving and yet totally engrossing, this menage a cinq is a theatrical car-crash only in the sense that it’s incredibly difficult not to keep watching.
A truly brilliant piece of theatre which arrives at the Traverse at the end of its tour, primed and purring with a quintet of pearly performances.
Michael Boyd--Right Now
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday April 19, 2016, until Saturday May 7, 2016. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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