A drug trial love story, lucyprebblish's TheEffect is set to light up London. Kate Lloyd meets its leading couple, PaapaEssiedu and Taylor Russell.
“I know I’m supposed to say this, but they are dream actors for these parts,” says Prebble, over the phone. “Paapa is an actor of extraordinary power. Every time I think of him doing it, I get this rush of joy and relief. And then Taylor is just, you know, this rising legend.”broke controversial ground when it was first performed in 2012, by a tracksuit-clad Billie Piper and Jonjo O’Neill, here at the National.
But Prebble wants to push things further still, reworking the play so it delves into the politics of mental health in a way it didn’t in 2012. “Depression is considered purely a medical state now,” she says. “It has been important to get to this point. But it’s also very beneficial for the political class to be able to just call it ‘a medical state’, rather than notice what kinds of people are getting depressed.
Expect a war cry of a show, then. Although, as Essiedu says, “It would work whether it was a drug trial on dopamine or not. As humans we’re obsessed with watching people form relationships in isolation – that’s why we all love shows like
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