6 / 10
The play breathlessly unpicks its knotty moral conundrum, packaged in a style that grates. Pike’s Jess Parks is narrator as well as main character, and she describes her situation (high-flying career woman diminished to a doormat at home) and the events that befall her family (18-year-old son Harry gets accused of something life-shatteringly terrible) with so much exposition that it never scorches as it might.
10 / 10
Pike is an inherently physical performer, and flaws in the script are glossed over by her constant bounding around the set, morphing from courtroom gravitas to dinner party femininity and back again. Though Glover and McAlinden do get revealing character moments towards the end of the play, this is effectively a one-woman show – an extended monologue, in which Pike lays bare Jessica's powers of observation and hypervigilance about factors outside her control.
The National Theatre's production of INTER ALIA, starring Rosamund Pike, announces additional cast members for its upcoming season at Wyndham's Theatre.
The National Theatre and Playful Productions have announced that Inter Alia, the National Theatre's recent production will transfer to the West End next Spring for a strictly limited season.
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