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Theatre

Memo to Nick Payne: filling your plays with cosmic chit-chat doesn’t make you intelligent

Plus: a deeply conservative play (that thinks it's radical) about the NHS

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

Incognito

Bush, until 21 June

This May Hurt a Bit

St James, until 21 June

How do you write a play? Here’s one theory. Put a guy up a tree, throw rocks at him, get him down again. It’s a good working template. Nick Payne’s latest script, Incognito, uses a different scheme. You put 21 guys up a tree, set them jabbering for 90 minutes and then go home.

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