The Play

Patience, by Canadian Jason Sherman, is a fable for our times.

Meet Reuben: the businessman who’s got it all. Perfect wife and kids, dream house and car. Reuben’s fought his way to the top and he’s living the dream… until his world collapses. His wife leaves him, his firm throws him out. Next thing he knows his brother is dead. To Reuben it seems some higher force is playing roulette with his life. Robbed of everything he has been taught to value, Reuben struggles to make sense of what remains.

“Sherman’s plays stretch beyond the borders of conventional drama” Time Magazine
In Patience we have found a play that perfectly suits our approach. Explosively written, hurtling from scene to scene and character to character, it embraces the dynamism, open space and ensemble playing that we hold dear. Patience crawls beneath the skin of modern life to ask whether redemption is possible in a postmodern age. A huge hit in North America, we are thrilled to offer this vital play to London.

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