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EXCLUSIVE: NT Live will begin its next broadcast season in September with a series of buzzy plays, including The Fifth Step, ...
The fifth step, we learn, is to admit your failings to God. This is no "conventional tale of overcoming adversity, but a morally ambiguous account of shifting power dynamics".
The cast. Jack Lowden reprises the lead role of alcoholic Luka, having previously played the part during The Fifth Step’s acclaimed premiere in 2024.The Scottish actor is best known for playing ...
The Fifth Step West End - The Fifth Step After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka.
Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden are teaming for the West End transfer of David Ireland's 'The Fifth Step,' set to bow at London's @sohoplace theater.
The Fifth Step is about two men in Alcoholics Anonymous – which Ireland was a member of in the past – but the play is not really about the instition as a whole. Rather, ...
The Fifth Step. London Play One Act. @sohoplace; 4 Soho Place, London; SYNOPSIS: After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka.
The Fifth Step review From this straightforward set-up, Ireland digs into powerful, timely themes – cross-generational tensions, repressed sexuality and spirituality among them.
The fifth step in this, apparently, is to admit your wrongs to God (or at least a God “of your own understanding”), to yourself and to another person: the play also introduces is to the ...
Jack Lowden is "staggeringly good" as the young alcoholic Luka in this revised version of "The Fifth Step" at London's @sohoplace, said Clive Davis in The Times. David Ireland's two-man show is ...
The fifth step, we learn, is to admit your failings to God. This is no "conventional tale of overcoming adversity, but a morally ambiguous account of shifting power dynamics".