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The Treatment review, Almeida Theatre ★★★★★

24 Apr 17 – 10 Jun 17, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

'More chilly than chilling': at the Almeida, Martin Crimp's biting satire wags its crooked finger once again

By Lucy Brooks on 4/5/2017

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Almeida Theatre - The Treatment 2017 play
Almeida Theatre - The Treatment 2017 play
The Treatment review, Almeida Theatre 3 The Treatment review, Almeida Theatre Lucy Brooks
'This is not my idea of Anne.'


So says a sharp-suited movie exec to her black-clad colleagues. She gestures vaguely at the woman to whose life they’re giving the Hollywood treatment. Anne stares dolefully at a pot of strip-lit orchids that have never looked further from nature, in a swanky lounge somewhere uptown. Champagne flutes clink. Silhouettes promenade against neon. Emotion has no place in this glinting operating theatre.


The story of Anne’s domestic abuse is about to be neatly tweaked, preened and packaged for the big screen.


Martin Crimp’s harrowing 1993 play, coolly revived at the Almeida by hotshot director Lyndsey Turner, takes us on a phantasmagorical journey through the bars and boardrooms of a nightmarish New York via voyeurism, control, commercialism and exploitation. Anne’s story is trussed up, stage by stage, meeting by meeting, into glorious Technicolor. She looks on, poised but helpless.


Nearly 25 years after its premiere, Crimp’s trademark satire has new balloons to burst: reality TV, 'post-truth', social media. And the writing still bites, clever-clever though it may be. The ensemble is mighty – the acting tight as a noose.


If you like Crimp, you’ll like this revival. But as ever with this abstract, abstruse British playwright, the overall effect is more chilly than chilling.

by Ella Cory-Wright

What The Treatment review, Almeida Theatre
Where Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA | MAP
Nearest tube Angel (underground)
When 24 Apr 17 – 10 Jun 17, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Price £10 - £39.50
Website Click here to book via The Almeida Theatre



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