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Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1998, nominated for a Tony for Best Play in 1999, and turned into an Oscar-nominated movie in 2004 starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, Patrick Marber’s sexually charged drama follows two couples who meet, fall in love, and are inevitably become caught in a web of lust and betrayal. British writer Dan Woolf meets ex-stripper Alice when he takes her to the hospital after witnessing her getting hit by a taxi. The accident occurred as the two stared at each other on the street. Dan and Alice begin a yearlong romance, but then he meets photographer Anna, whom he tries to persuade to have an affair with. Alice overhears his conversation with the photographer. A year later, Larry, a dermatologist, meets Anna after being inadvertently introduced by Dan, and they begin their own relationship. Soon after, however, Dan and Anna have their affair. Larry, meanwhile, runs into Alice at a strip club where she has begun working, and things get, well, complicated. Featuring strong language and adult content, r explores the foursome’s relationship with truth, fantasy, sexual desire, and the illusion of love and romance.
