1 – 30 September 2023
CHichester Festival Theatre
Jacq and Kas’s boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin that his investment is toast is only the start of the evening. Cash, class, identity and infidelity are all on the menu. As the last of the expensive wine flows, a dangerous drinking game reveals long-hidden truths and provokes an unspeakable dare.
This explosive, savagely funny first play by Deborah Frances-White, comedian, screenwriter and host of the global hit podcast The Guilty Feminist, brilliantly skewers the contradictions of contemporary society, and the shifting sands of power and sexual politics.
Alex Roach - Jacq
Amit Shah - Kas
Greg Wise - Tobin
Susan Wokoma - Adaego
Writer - Deborah Frances-White
Director - Emma Butler
Designer - Frankie Bradshaw
Lighting Designer - Ryan Day
Sound Designer - Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Movement Director - Chi-San Howard
Intimacy & Fight Director - Clare Llewellyn for RC-Annie
Casting Director - Lotte Hines CDG
Associate Director - Dubheasa Lanipekun
Dramaturg - Malakaï Sargeant
Stunt Consultants - Rachel Bown-Williams & Ruth Cooper-Brown for RC-Annie
Producers - Chichester Festival Theatre, Eleanor Lloyd Productions & Francesca Moody Productions
★★★★
Deborah Frances-White has scored a bullseye with her debut play. A West End transfer should surely beckon for this savagely funny comedy.
The I
★★★★
A salty, volatile cross between Indecent Proposal and a satanic edition of Come Dine with Me. The cast beautifully judge those moments when the joke curdles and teeth are bared. Exhilarating fun.
The Sunday Times
★★★★
This is a blessedly rare example of a play that doesn’t simply regurgitate conventional wisdoms about race, gender and class. A drama that will send you out into the night, arguing and laughing.
The times
