Prolific French writer Florian Zeller is fast becoming ubiquitous on the London
stage; after the pairing of
The Father and
The Mother took a dark and moving look at
crumbling minds and crumbling relationships, a change of tack with a much lighter
look at rocky marriages in
The Truth (which also has a companion play, and I
imagine we'll see
The Lie here too soon enough.) For the last six months
Michel (Alexander Hanson) has been having an affair with Alice (Frances O'Connor,)
the wife of his best friend Paul (Robert Portal.) They've been meeting in the
afternoons in a hotel room, but things get derailed as it seems Paul and Michel's wife Laurence
(Tanya Franks) might have cottoned on to the affair. Alice thinks they should just
confess all to their spouses but Michel thinks they can brazenly style it out -
presumably not realising just how bad a liar he is.
