The Effect
Our Post-Pandemic Revival of Lucy Prebble's Modern Classic:
Tristan and Connie meet while volunteering to take part in a drug trial for a new antidepressant. The doctors overseeing the experiment, Lorna and Toby, watch on with an attentive eye as Connie and Tristan’s dopamine levels rise to unpredicted heights. But is the drug working? Or have Connie and Tristan just fallen in love?
In it’s first tour since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Lucy Prebble’s award-winning play took on a striking new resonance in this 2021 revival. Buzzcut's production drew out the work's exploration of social and psychological isolation in wake of the UK's Coronavirus lockdown. So too, utilising live microscope cameras the multimedia production examined the chemical reality of love in (literal) close up.
"Revelatory and Ingenious"
- The Oxford Blue
"A Rollercoaster of Sex, Sadness, Love, and Jealousy"
- Cherwell
Company:
Dr James: Kaitlin Horton Samuel
Tristan: Jules Upson
Connie: Grace de Souza
Toby: Alec Watson
Director: Gabe Winsor
Assistant Directors: Max Morgan & Rachel Dastgir
Producers: Daisy Gosal & Freya Hutchins
Design: Daisy Day & Biba Jones
Lighting Design: Lucas Ipkendaz
Graphic Design: Biba Jones
Welfare Officer: Paula McGechan
Marketing Manager: Amy Evans
Assistant Marketing Manager: Cyrus Gilmartin
Performed:
Oxford Playhouse Burton Taylor Studio: 1st - 7th December 2021
King's Head Theatre Islington: September 19th - 20th 2022
Old Fire Station Oxford: 21st September 2022
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