FIRST NIGHT | THEATRE
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Harold Pinter Theatre, SW1
Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner bring pace and attack to Sam Steiner’s play of ideas
JOHAN PERSSON
★★★☆☆
Here is an acting challenge for Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman as they hold a West End stage together for just shy of 90 minutes. They’re playing youngish lovers who meet, flirt, move in together, quip, quibble, question their values, question each other.
So far, so rom-com as we know it in Sam Steiner’s two-hander, first performed in 2015 when he was only a year out of college.
Turner, though – he of Poldark, The Suspect, Being Human — and Jenna Coleman — she of Victoria, The Serpent, Doctor Who — have more to get stuck into than that. Their short scenes hop around in time. Here they’re waking up together for the first time; there they’re meeting at
