The sell-out success at The National Theatre and West End productions, has brought Headlongs People Places and Things on tour. The Oxford Playhouse was also sold out on Thursday. Duncan Macmillan's brilliant writing has won this play many awards and it shows. The dialogue crackles and pops as it explores the depths of addiction. Directors Jeremy Herrin, Artistic Director of the wonderful Headlong company (The Seagull, 1984 and Herrin's own superb The Absence of War), and Holly Race Roughan pull no punches with an inventive and masterly staged production.
Lisa Dwyer Hogg plays the addict who (typically) goes by a number of names and ends up in rehab. When she refuses to take her pills, flushing them down the toilet, you are not surprised when things go haywire. Is Hogg up to the task of carrying the play? Almost but not quite. But the rest of the cast are good and, for a touring company, the general acting is OK. More than OK is the set and the sound, both key to modern shows.
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