Anna X commented: Emma Corrin and Nabhaan Rizwan are great

Princess Diana Crown, The Golden Globe, is now an excellent judge West end Make its debut in this exciting cocktail of art, money and lies. Emma Colin It was a sensational year.

Joseph CharltonScript, inspired by the case of a fake Russian heiress Anna Sorokin, Asked her to be strong, charming, mysterious and funny, and play several male roles.Colin pulled it down casually, and Naban Rizwan -From other lock-in TV hits, industry-As Ariel, Anna may like but ruthlessly use the nerd, the needy, the newly wealthy app designer.

While claiming to establish the Manhattan Art Foundation, Sorokin ran away hotel bills, falsified financial records and stole things from friends. Charlton weaves a narrative arc around a combative romantic story. The two characters come into contact repeatedly and then tell the various aspects of the story separately, just like a boxer during and after a fight. Daniel Raggett’s 80-minute work is both cool and ironic. It was designed by Mikaela Liakata and Tal Yaden, It emits club music, saturated New York city views, Whatsapp scrolling and dazzling white light.

Sonia Friedman’s RE: EMERGE season introduced new sounds and ideas in the first two plays in the Pinter Theatre, but Anna X is more complete and beautiful. It feels fresh and exciting, as shiny as Jeff Koons’ sculptures, even though the empty world it depicts is both for Jay McKinney and F Scott Fitzgerald. Familiar with. The only change is that social media makes social climbing easier.

In Charlton’s fictional work, Anna falls into a scam and is driven by a gift of self-promotion and theft. He asked, isn’t she the American dream-from scratch? In a world where Warhol’s paintings can sell for $100 million, the concept of a dating app is only twice the price, and money loses its meaning. Regarding the shaping of the public image and the distortion of truth in modern politics, there are also deeper echoes here, but Charlton did not explain this.

Sometimes Anna’s clever witticism is too compelling: Coal, she said, “want to be a diamond”; cremation will be her “last chance to smoke a corpse”. In other respects—especially in a gasping line—she is clearly a man’s idea of ​​femme fatale with sexy, hard nails.

But Colin, who is so beautiful and chopped off, sells well even in the weakest moments, and her comedy timing is very good. Rizwan’s performance is also very cute-the couple is drugged and drunk and flirting is fun-but Ariel is a straight man here. This show is a blast, a sadly limited run at Pinter. I really hope it transfers.