Review: Poison, C nova (Venue 145)

By Sue Wilson
Published on 16/08/2012 15:47

Coming across like an underacted and particularly ill-scripted episode of Made in Chelsea, Ross Anderson’s four-hander, produced by Lonhattan Theatre Group, opens with loved-up couple, Rachel and Matt, celebrating her pregnancy.

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Chuffed though he is, Matt later proves unable to resist the temptations offered by Rachel’s cocaine-loving banker brother Toby, while her whacked-out alcoholic sister Julia is another spectre at the feast. Tragedy ensues, in duly cautionary fashion, all ultimately the fault, supposedly, of the siblings’ insufficiently loving parents.

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