Lorcan Cranitch

Love in a Glass Jar was a play by Nancy Harris about sperm donation, gently comic in intent, astonishingly graphic. I learned a lot more about sperm collection than I may ever need to know but, a third of the way through, I started to grasp that, really, it was about people and how we get to know each other no matter what barriers exist or we put up. This was a repeat. I was glad of it because, this time, I stayed with it and better understood Eve (Niamh Cusack) and her donor, Patrick (Lorcan Cranitch). I liked them and will look out for this writer in future.

Melissa Murray's witty play, based on a true story, is about how Richard Brinsley Sheridan (played by Lorcan Cranitch) is, in 1796, a producer down on his luck, needing some. He's been offered the find of a lifetime, a lost play by Shakespeare about an ancient British king and queen. His star, John Philip Kemble (brilliantly played by Alex Jennings) has agreed to take the lead. But what's this? The young man who claims to have "discovered" the play, William Henry Ireland (Rufus Wright) seems suspiciously familiar with the text.