'Art'

‘Art’, Yasmina Reza’s razor-sharp comedy, here in translation by Christopher Hampton, transforms a simple disagreement over a painting into an exploration of ego, taste, and loyalty. When Serge presents his new artistic purchase, an almost completely white canvas, to his old friend Marc, their polite debate over its value spirals into an explosion of brutal honesty and emotional chaos, which ropes in the most vulnerable member of the trio, Yvan.

This new production sees Reza’s modern classic return to the Bedlam stage for the first time in nearly a decade. With a unique production design and plenty of life breathed into the constant humour and biting cynicism of the text, it’s bound to be a blast.