One For The Road/Victoria Station, Young Vic
The short story is a virtuoso form " the guest at the literary party who drops in for the merest of moments, scintillating and fascinating all before withdrawing with calculated aplomb, leaving the novels plodding onward with conversation about house prices. While we celebrate such technical bravura on the page, on stage the short play has never achieved quite the same stature. Perhaps it's the mechanics of the thing…