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The Effect
(Image c/- US Dept. of Health)
(written by Lucy Prebble) (Adelaide University Theatre Guild, 8 October 2016) A man and a woman – an experienced experimentee and a first timer – sign on as subjects in an anti-depressant trial at Raushen Pharmaceuticals. Who would have thought that two young, flaky people left virtually alone in a closed environment with nothing to do might engage in a little forbidden hanky-panky? Sigh. Unfortunately this rather juvenile play is full of such predictable developments and unsurprising attempts at surprise. Connie and Tristan, the guinea-pigs, escape to a moonlit former insane asylum and bang on about whether unnatural upsurges in dopamine cause…
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