Overview

• The Almeida production is scheduled through 11 October, with a listed 170-minute runtime, according to The Times.
• Alice Birch’s play uses a fragmentary, novel-shaped form to trace masculinities across roughly 150 years through three brothers of the Roman family.
• Kyle Soller, Oliver Johnstone and Stuart Thompson star as Jack, Marlow and Edmund, with direction by Sam Pritchard.
• The story’s episodes include boarding-school abuse, colonial violence, a cult confrontation, public cancellation and a turn into manosphere podcast culture.
• The Evening Standard and the i commend the ambition and performances, while The Times issues a one-star review calling the work “terminally dull” and “an empty vessel.”