Unicorns and multiple Madonnas
Unicorn at the Garrick Theatre This new play by Mike Bartlett , has a fabulous cast with Nicola Walker (Polly) Stephen Mangan (Nick) and Erin Doherty (Kate) and all three actors are excellent. I really enjoyed the first half which sets the scene of a tired marriage potentially being enlivened by becoming a throuple when Polly finds the ‘unicorn’, that person who might become the third leg to stabilise this relationship. This is a wordy play, lots of graphic language, getting lots of laughs out of middle class awkwardness about sex, generation gaps, aging, midlife, and masculinity. I found the relationships that develop between the three characters believable, and the ethical debates and implications of the situation, trying to find a way to live differently from social norms and without shame, really engaging. I was really invested in finding out how things would go. In the second half I was looking forward to teasing out more about how this relations...