Sumit Paul-Choudhury, editor
(Image: Ellie Kurtz)
Connie and Tristan are participants in the first human trial of a new anti-depressant drug. Confined to a research lab, they soon find themselves falling for each other. But as their moods soar, how can they be sure their romantic chemistry isn’t simply the result of their altered brain chemistry? And how would it matter if it was?
In The Effect, British playwright Lucy Prebble’s first stage production since Enron, Connie, initially the more rational and introspective of the pair, finds herself driven to distraction by the thought that her feelings might not be real. Tristan, more impulsive and accepting, is happy to take it as it comes - regardless of whatever “it” may actually be. But perhaps their attitudes are being shaped by the drugs as well... The audience is kept guessing - and whatever expectations we form are repeatedly confounded as the experiment unfolds./.../
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