Firebrand in partnership with Heart of Hawick present
THE EFFECT
By Lucy Prebble

All the symptoms of real love

Following the critical and popular success of their productions of Iron and Outlying Islands, award-winning Firebrand present the Scottish premiere of an unconventional and moving love story: a sexy, funny, and thought-provoking exploration of the limits of medicine in today’s pill-popping culture.

Connie is a psychology student. Tristan is a charming drifter. Both have signed up to a clinical trial for a new antidepressant super-drug. Sealed off from the outside world, the attraction between them turns into deeper feelings as their doses get stronger. They’ve been warned of side effects – can they trust their feelings, or is this just a chemical romance?

Directed by Richard Baron, and featuring Pauline Knowles, Scarlett Mack, Cameron Crighton and Jonathan Coote, The Effect is spiced with warmth, humour and intelligence. The original production opened to great acclaim at the National Theatre in 2012 and won the Critic’s Circle Award for Best New Play for brilliant young playwright Lucy Prebble, author of the West End hit Enron and TV’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

16+ Contains strong language, nudity and scenes of a sexual nature

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