Reviews
"Consent is an outstanding first work for this breakout company. Rational Animals have landed on their feet with a stand-out production of a story that feels urgent." - Joshua Maxwell, Stage Whispers
"This production is slick, fast paced and exceptionally well acted, with overlapping and interwoven dialogue during ensemble scenes adding enormously to the authenticity of the legal and domestic confrontations alike. Consent refuses simplistic answers or moral certainty. Instead, it exposes the contradictions embedded within modern relationships and the justice system itself, leaving audiences to wrestle with uncomfortable ambiguities long after the lights fade." - Rizzie Reviews
"From the get-go the acting is world class." - Joshua Maxwell, Stage Whispers
"If this is a debut production for Rational Animals then their future is assured. This was a well crafted and intense production that audiences will thoroughly appreciate." - Rizzie Reviews
About
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered?
Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.
A powerful, painful, funny play that sifts the evidence from every side and puts Justice herself in the dock.
★★★★★ "Jammed with ideas, rich with humanity... A modern classic."
- The Times
★★★★★ "One of Nina Raine's most enjoyable and intelligent plays. Unreservedly recommended."
- The Independent
“A tense, entertaining modern-day tragi-comedy.”
- Telegraph
“Modern classics don’t come along very often. Consent is, without a shadow of a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and language what Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen did for particle physics and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia did with time.”
- Variety
Mature Audiences (16+ Event).
Content Warning: Discussions and depictions of sexual violence, coarse language, loud noises, and themes of suicide.
