Progress Theatre

Translated by Christopher Hampton

“My friend Serge has bought a painting…”

So begins the belligerent and outraged Marc, self appointed voice of common sense, as he and his two oldest friends – the emerging aesthete Serge and the ever insecure Yvan – discover that their views on art, status and relationships don’t match up.

Could the purchase of an extravagant piece of modern art trigger the deconstruction and destruction of a friendship built up over fifteen years?

Art is a hilarious play centred on perceptions and perspectives filled with beautifully crafted dialogue and characters.

Synopsis
Mark Styler, popular crime writer, arrives at Fairfields, the asylum sheltering the notorious serial-killing subject of his next book – Easterman. But before he can get to the object of his interest, he must first get through Dr. Farquhar, the institution’s head and pioneer of his own quirky methods of treatment. Under Farquhar’s interrogation, and with the furtive and anxious Nurse Plimpton distracting him, Styler finally meets Easterman – but not in the manner in which he expected.

Anthony Horowitz, creator of Foyle’s War and writer of the Stormbreaker novels and the recent Sherlock Holmes release, is at his diabolical best in this brutal psychological thriller, liberally sprinkled with dark humour and violence as it twists, turns and confounds to its startling conclusion.

Performance dates
We are trialling a split performance run for Mindgame – six nights split over two weekends:

May 

10th-12th (Thurs-Sat)
17th-19th (Thurs-Sat)