Set Menu is a brand new play from the brilliant Dexter Harding directed by the wonderful Cara Crozier-Cole. The play follows a Friday night. The food is ready, the drinks are cold, the cutlery is set. Max is primed to throw the perfect dinner party. He has to. Nothing but perfection will do, because nothing else seems to have worked. After a hundred attempts, he knows exactly what to do, what to say and where to say it. It’s 7: 24PM. The doorbell rings. It’s showtime. A few hours later, the guests are piling into their taxis, laughing, singing, belts loosened, eyes wide, as Max waits for the clock to tell him he is free. This time for sure, has earned a tomorrow.Set Menu begins almost six hundred days later. Max has tried and failed to escape so many times that he is losing all sense of time, reality and himself. No matter what he throws at the wall, nothing even begins to stick. The clock resets, the guests forget and he begins again at square one. By now, he has basically stopped trying. So much so, that on a particularly awful night of shouting matches, food poisoning and a small fire, he decides to reset the night early with a kitchen knife. Only, when he wakes up to try again,
