The Effect, was premiered 2012, won the 2012 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Drama. The Effect premiered in the US Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2016.
Now the Side Effect arrives to one of the most popular theater to the Centrál Theater Budapest on the 6th of December. The play by the outstandingly talented contemporary English playwrighter Lucy Prebble.
Connie and Tristan, young test subjects of a new antidepressant an investigation of the brain and the chemistry of mood. Four characters … two participating in a clinical trial and two supervising doctors with a past together … and using all the tools. Overall are looking for the answer to the burning question, are their feelings for each other a natural attraction or are they whipped up by the drug? What can medicine do for us, and where are the limits of intervention? The captivatingly exciting and thought-provoking piece contrasts scientific objectivity with the mysteries of the heart, dry data with the unknowability of our emotions.
Author: Lucy Prebble, Director: Ádám Horgas. On stage actors: Éva Botos, Tibor Fehér, and two excellent guest artists, Dorka Gáspárfalvi and Tibor Mertz.
Venue: Centrál Theather Big stage – District, VI., 18. Révay Street – Budapest -Tickets available on the spot and/or through e/mail: jegyinfo@centralszinhaz.hu
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