Royal Court Upstairs, London SW1
It happened with 9/11, now its happening with the credit crunch. In the wake of world shattering events, every other play in relatively closeted theatre-land suddenly seems informed by crisis. So is Leo Butler's raw two-hander the first credit-crunch play?
It reunites Dave (Con O'Neill) with his wife, Joanne (Amanda Drew), 10 years after he abandoned her and their debt-ridden, materialistic existence in Sheffield.
Now he lives in an overpriced London flat where Joanne has arrived to get the one thing they didn't acquire during all those years of interest payments for holidays, clothes and cars that they could not afford - a baby. Joanne is 39 and ovulating. All Dave has to do is keep his promise to impregnate her, which is made no easier by the constant noise of home improvements coming from the flat above.