Fear and Misery

Fear and Misery : Time Out review

Time Out London posted a review with a tiny image by Robert Workman.

'Fear and Misery' plays in the Court’s downstairs bar, where a good-looking couple are eating pasta, drinking red wine and fighting over their son’s recurring nightmare. Does he dream of the headless soldier because they are rowing? Because they don’t live in a gated community? Or because Olivia feels a tiny hint of ‘rape. Sorry. Rape. Sorry. Rape. Sorry’ in her husband’s lovemaking.

Actors Joseph Millson and Joanna Riding absolutely nail the stuttering, rapid rattle of the couple’s alternately needy and aggressive dialogue.

Fear and Misery : British Theatre Guide review

I found another review of Fear and Misery on the British Theatre Guide website.

This short play takes place over a dinner hardly enjoyed by a loving if rather stressed couple who have everything that one could desire - except inner security. It eventually becomes a curtain-raiser to War & Peace , which carries on the ideas that it raises but is not able to explore fully.

Fear and Misery : Variety review


Variety
posted a good review of Fear and Misery today.

"Equally excellent, and approaching the theme of war more directly, were two plays directed by Cooke in atmospheric corners of the Royal Court's bar/restaurant. In "Fear and Misery," an affluent couple (Joanna Riding, Joseph Millson) eat dinner and argue about the pressures on their lives while listening to the sound of their coddled son Alex's breathing on a baby monitor. Unseen by them, a bloody soldier (Burn Gorman) creeps past and into their son's room.

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