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Instructions For Correct Assembly
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Instructions For Correct Assembly
Royal Court Theatre, London
THERE'S a comfort in banality — an ease and a simplicity. And there’s a pleasure in saying the “right” thing to your friends and having the “right” joke or truism to hand.
But learning the social rules — what to say, what not to say — is more complicated than we might expect and what lies beneath the banal is often pain.
At the centre of Thomas Eccleshare’s new play Instructions For Correct Assembly are Max and Harry, played brilliantly by Jane Horrocks and Mark Bonnar.
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