Waiting Room

We find Thomas on a station platform, waiting for a train to arrive and about to do something momentous. The setting is very bare, but the sound effects set the scene effectively; a recorded voice reads out the kind of signs you’d expect to see on a platform, but gradually they are interspersed with commentaries about control. Thomas is smartly-dressed and at pains to stress how normal he is, but he is very earnest and precise, and we are in no doubt that control is important to him.

This play really has it all: wonderful writing, very funny yet utterly chilling, coupled with first-class acting and design.