The Priory: review from The Stage

Good review in The Stage.

Jeremy Herrin directs a stellar cast, ensuring a caustic realism pervades as this perceptive comedy becomes inexorably bleaker...

...Joseph Millson’s Daniel has a dry charm, while iPhone-obsessed, self-involved Ben (Alastair Mackenzie) and damp-squib Carl (Rupert Penry-Jones) - an unhappily married, resting actor who works in a garden centre - complete the unprepossessing party.

Lost, lonely and unloved, none of the characters are particularly sympathetic, but all are painfully plausible. Wynne’s comedy cuts close to the bone, but is all the more compelling for it.