Unicorn
Closing: April 26, 2025Unicorn - 2025 West End History , Info & More
Garrick Theatre
2 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0HH London
Nick: Have you two kissed already?
Polly: No
Kate: Yes
Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful careers. And yet there's something missing... something rare and unforeseen…waiting to add a much-needed sparkle…
Unicorn is Mike Bartlett's explicit, funny and provocative new play, directed by James Macdonald, starring Nicola Walker (Unforgotten, The Split), Stephen Mangan (The Split, Episodes) and Erin Doherty (The Crown, Chloe).
This production contains explicit language, content and scenes of a sexual nature, which some audience members may find intriguing.
__Assisted Performances:__
BSL, Friday 7th March 7.30pm
Audio Described, Saturday 19th April 7.30pm
Captioned, Saturday 5th April 2.30pm
Unicorn - 2025 - West End Cast
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This throuple play is an elusive creature
6 / 10
With the help of James Macdonald’s unobtrusive but taut direction, the cast excel. There are few people better than Mangan at making the words “in theory” feel like an essay in probability; as he wriggles and writhes in the midst of an unfamiliar situation, he brilliantly suggests a genuine confusion that masks something darker and less savoury. Walker is equally powerful, often funny, always honest. Her character is the ultimate truth-sayer, but she’s good at revealing the cost of that – showing the doubts beneath her desire to bring about change.
Crude banter and desire, but anguish is too polite
4 / 10
There’s lots of explicit talk about goings-on in the boudoir — the language is very blunt at times. But watching Stephen Mangan, Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty exchange a mix of crude banter and philosophical profundities on the implications of a threesome — or “throuple”, if you prefer — is a little like wandering around a giant erotic emporium on an industrial estate. After the twelfth box of vibrators starts buzzing away, a certain boredom sets in.
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Review Roundup: Mike Bartlett's UNICORN Canters Into The West End
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 14, 2025
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 14, 2025
Unicorn is Mike Bartlett's explicit, funny and provocative new play, directed by James Macdonald, starring Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan and Erin Doherty. What did the critics think?
Review: UNICORN, Garrick Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 14, 2025
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 14, 2025
You would think that Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan had had enough of acting roles surrounding marital discord. In Abi Morgan's hugely popular TV series The Split, the pair have been up and down on the rollercoaster of marriage for years. Now reunited on stage, alongside Erin Doherty, for Mike Bartlett's provocative new play, Unicorn, this is a stellar cast, with an excellent writer. So why does it feel rather hollow?
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