What's On Stage has given The Pain and The Itch 4 stars. The full review can be found here.
He [Norris] has done a wonderful job ...
Clay (Matthew MacFadyen) is a nauseatingly “correct” house husband ...
London Theatre Guide has their review out, too:
Cleverly constructed by Norris and with dialogue which makes its point
with every line, The Pain And The Itch is a hilariously cynical satire
with some disturbingly recognisable, and unsympathetic, characters.
Matthew Macfadyen acts Clay as a man always attempting to do the right
thing but getting confused in the process, trying to disguise the
marital problems with his sharp, uptight wife (Sara Stewart) while
dealing with his own long-held familial insecurities. Andrea
Riseborough grabs much of the laughter as the no-nonsense, fun-loving
Kalina, who puts a spanner in Kelly’s politically-correct works at
every turn and undermines Kelly’s precious claims of ‘abuse’. Peter
Sullivan is an unpleasantly cynical Cash while Amanda Boxer is spot-on
as the innocently racist mother Carol. Shannon Kelly as Kayla,
meanwhile, is an expert screamer.
JaneV has given us some excerpts from today's newspapers and the scans!:
