Overview
- Reviews published on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, praise Sandra Oh’s performance as Alice while giving the overall production a mixed reception.
- Playwright Martin Crimp’s new gender-flipped update relocates Molière to the present day and explicitly addresses online reputation, cancel culture, and Big Tech surveillance.
- Director Indu/Indhu Rubasingham’s staging and Robert Jones’s design draw notice for baroque visual callbacks, rhyming passages and meta-theatrical flourishes that some critics call overstuffed or meandering.
- Critics single out strong supporting work from Paul Chahidi as John and Rina Fatania as a reputation manager, and note Tom Mison plays the fame-obsessed Stefan whose relationship with Alice drives much of the tension.
- The run at the National Theatre links to Crimp’s earlier 1996 adaptation and shows how star casting and topical rewrites shape public and industry debates about updating classic plays.