Warchus s cast, like Christopher Hampton s translation, prove immaculate whether they must fester, row, lie, plot, tease, explode anything. They may endure some awful alternative evenings. They give us a thoroughly rewarding one. The hosts insult the guests, the guests insult each other and every attempt at conversation is punctuated by the clamorous cries of the unseen child. Life X 3 is designed to show how chance, with its impact upon our actions and behaviour, changes everything.
Life turns out to be dependent on the whims of chaos.
Miss Reza, whose play Art made her international name and fortune, serves up the highly original Life X 3 in a trio of scenes. All these scenes turn out to be a variation on the same dinner-party scene where two cosmologists and their wives come to verbal blows. Warchus beautiful production catches all the wry comedy and marital back-stabbing. They are matched by Imelda Staunton's Ines, an emotionally bedraggled victim of Oliver Cotton's Hubert who mainlines on conceit. Life X 3 is a seriously amusing night out.