The pain and the itch

The Royal Court has a relatively new artistic director who has been having a real go at all the Guardian-reading liberals feeling better about themselves for coming to watch plays about poor and lost people. He's said he wants theatre to be more explicitly political (I like him already). This play is about the self-obsession and self-consciousness that often seems to accompany overly eager proclamations of liberalism. It seems to be designed to make the audiences likely to be seeing it shift in their seats. Mixed reviews (it started on Broadway) but it's been too long since I went to the Royal Court so time to go back. On until 4th August, 020 7565 5000.