CONSENT National Theatre

Nina Raine’s Consent, highly critical of the Law, particularly when it comes to rape, takes a sharp look at the behaviour of barristers in court and in their private lives. The confrontations and cross-examinations are even bitterer in the home. A wife (Anna Maxwell Martin) accuses her husband (Ben Chaplin) of rape. But was it rape? Did she consent and then afterwards call it rape? Or did she consent only so that she could accuse him of rape?