The Effect

by Lucy Prebble

Directed by Andrew Porter

MAIN STAGE

February 22nd, 2019 - March 17th, 2019

Pay What You Can/Preview Performance Thursday February 21st

"There's no such thing as side effects...They're just effects you can't sell." It's the classic story of boy meets girl. Boy likes girl and girl likes boy. They fall in love. But why? Connie and Tristan are test subjects in a clinical trial fro a new antidepressant in development. Their immediate and fevered love ends up risking the integrity of the trial while they wrangle with the very origin and nature of their feelings. Are they truly meant for each other, or is it just the effect of some drug?

"...very clever - and ultimately more than clever...ingenious..."
- The New York Times