Details

Set in a fictitious English University town, strongly evoking Oxford or Cambridge, the play follows 24 hours in the lives of a group of young academics. The action unfolds in the rooms of Philip the university's cosseted and floundering professor of philology, for whom solace and certitude exist in complex wordplay. Out in the 'real world' the Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and England's most treasured writers are being murdered one by one! Back in the cosy bubble of university life, the bachelor don anguishes over sex, marriage, anagrams and the meaning of life. Did someone suggest academics were 'out of touch'?

Cast/Performers

Simon Russell Beale, Simon Bubb, Siobhan Hewlett, Anna Madeley, Danny Webb, Simon Day, Bernadette Russell

Creatives/Company

Author: Christopher Hampton
Producer(s): Ian Fricker, Donmar Warehouse
Director: David Grindley
Design: Tim Shortall
Lighting: Rick Fisher
Sound: Gregory Clarke