‘There are no commitments, there are only bargains.’
Henry is a playwright, Annie is an actress, and fiction is the backdrop to life. Not exactly a normal recipe for a faithful marriage, especially when it began as an illicit affair.
But why does it matter how it began if what they now have is the real thing?
Diving its way through the many layers of play and performance, deceit, and reality, The Old Vic is the setting for Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, which is a kaleidoscopic comedy of love, infidelity, and the stories people tell. Starring James McArdle (The Tragedy of Macbeth, Mare of Easttown) and Bel Powley (Everything I Know About Love, Masters of the Air,), and is directed by Max Webster (Life of Pi, Macbeth).