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Happy Now?
a new play by Lucinda Coxon
FOUR STARS Independent, Time Out, Mail on Sunday
'A richly rewarding gem... the best new play to have arrived on the British stage for at least a year.' Daily Telegraph
'Wonderfully funny and painfully accurate... hits nail after nail on the head.' Independent
A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty’s mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty’s running out of time for big changes.
I’m wondering at what point it became acceptable for you to stand in this house on which I pay the mortgage, drinking the drink I bought out of the glasses I washed in front of the cake I baked and talk that fucking talk. All – and I think this is a lovely touch for which I must take full credit – while I’m wearing an apron.
Lucinda Coxon’s Happy Now? dares to ask just that, in this painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
Now playing
Day Seats
£10 from Box Office in person on the day of performance from 9.30am.
May be limited to 2 per person.
Cast credits:
: includes:
Johnny : Jonathan Cullen
Bea : Emily Joyce
Carl : Stuart McQuarrie
June : Anne Reid
Miles : Dominic Rowan
Michael : Stanley Townsend
Kitty : Olivia Williams
Production credits:
Director: Thea Sharrock
Designer: Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer: Oliver Fenwick
Sound Designer: Paul Arditti
photo (Olivia Williams) by Simon Annand
Happy Now? finished on: 10 May 2008
