Thus Lexie tries to explore what her husband has been up to and why, whilst not letting on to him that she knows, Joanne Froggatt’s brittle intensity perfect for the role as she comes up against the comparative glamour of Emilia Fox’s Zara. Their shared scenes are excellent and the hints of psychodrama that creep in here are amongst the story’s highlights. Ben Chaplin’s Philip isn’t quite the draw he needs to be though, the character never really suggesting adequate appeal.
Again, the shortcomings of this format are highlighted with a somewhat weak ending, a necessity of wrapping things up that works against where the writing seems to be heading, but it is still interesting (and an improvement, for me at least, on Cook’s previous theatrical work that I’ve seen).