This multi-award-winning play by Patrick Marber explores the self-obsession of today's society, many people becoming increasingly calculating and selfish, and callously causing deep emotional damage to others.

The lives and loves of a journalist, a stripper, a doctor and a photographer become inextricably entwined in a web of love and hate, affection and deceit, intrigue and death.

Four excellent actors - Josie Taylor, Ben Nathan, Amanda Osborne and particularly Kevin Drury as the nefariously naive doctor - are all utterly convincing, delivering a script which is crisp and bitingly concise, pacy and poetic, and occasionally - but not gratuitously - brutal and obscene.

Set in London and New York, and succinctly covering several years, this is a compelling and disturbing play.

The ingenious use of simple stage blocks and atmospheric lighting emphasises the powerful capability of language to break minds and hearts.

Currently on a national tour, the London Classic Theatre Company take this play to Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke from May 24-26.