SEX WITH A STRANGER Trafalgar Studios

Stefan Golaszewski writes in incredibly short scenes, many lasting seconds rather than minutes, with jump-cuts and black-outs. The dialogue could not be more banal; but it is what is going on underneath and not being articulated which is the real subject matter. The longest scene is when Naomi Sheldon silently irons her partner’s shirt, an image which, for many older theatregoers, will bring back memories of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Sheldon, Russell Tovey and Jaime Winstone are very good and the action gradually takes hold.