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Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough review – charming odd-couple courtship

Southwark Playhouse, London
Cordelia O’Neill’s romcom about a pair of mismatched Londoners nails the giddy energy of young love, but isn’t as adept at tragedy

Alex and Rupert should never have met. They certainly shouldn’t have fallen in love. But thanks to a quirk of fate – a magical aligning of numbers, as financer Rupert would put it – they bump into each other on the tube one morning. They tease and taunt, flirt and fight, fall for each other and eventually fall pregnant. Playwright Cordelia O’Neill keeps us laughing every step of the way, until suddenly the unthinkable happens to Alex and Rupert and then there is only silence.

In many ways (most of them good), Small Things Theatre company’s latest production is a good old-fashioned romantic comedy. It involves a classic mismatched couple, destined to either hate each other or fall madly in love. O’Neill absolutely nails the giddy energy of those early dates, when conversation tumbles all over the place and the thirst for knowledge about each other is all-consuming and unquenchable.

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