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Actually review — a case of he said, she said

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Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda in Actually, a provocative two-hander
Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda in Actually, a provocative two-hander

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★★★☆☆
Amber and Tom, a pair of Princeton freshmen, think about sex a lot. Amber hasn’t had much experience; she frets about her body. Tom, confident in his hotness, gets it whenever he wants it, which is pretty much every night. Amber is Jewish and Tom is African-American. He has barely noticed her. She has been fantasising about him for weeks. What happens one drunken night when they end up in Tom’s bed? Tom says they had sex, before a grisly morning-after of copious vomit and an awkward goodbye. Amber says that he “practically” raped her.

The truth remains elusive in this two-hander by the American playwright Anna Ziegler. High-profile sexual misconduct cases on college campuses, a pussy-grabbing president in the White House and the