, Claire Foy and Matt Smith had to perform with the restraint of royal protocol and the crippling emotional reserve of dynastic dinosaurs. Imagine the pair's delight, then, when they saw the text of and an opportunity to reprise their partnership in an entirely different mode — to leap out of the cage, go hell for leather, to talk and talk in an 80-minute bombardment of unbridled emotion.
Macmillan's two-hander was first performed in 2011, and, given the increasingly pessimistic prognosis for climate change, the play has become ever more relevant. Its young protagonists are toying with the idea of having their first child. In their opening exchange, the man suggests, "I'm just thinking about the future." Once upon a time that comment would pertain simply to the direction of a relationship — toward marriage, longevity, parenthood.
Director Matthew Warchus and designer Rob Howell employ a monochromatic, minimalistic approach that draws all attention to the performers. The Old Vic stage is almost bare, save for two mounds of rock and sea glass propping up two of the gridded floor panels as seats. Fetchingly dressed in casual gray, Foy and Smith move the story across locations and through time, with a simple about-turn or a dip of the shoulders.
The woman will remain a tiny bundle of volcanic emotion — anxiety, uncertainty, anger, contempt, fear, distress — who's prone to overstatement, such as when she suggests that "I'm about to give birth to the Eiffel Tower," or "It's like you've punched me in the face and then asked me a maths question.
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