Review: Matthew Perry's The End of Longing at the Playhouse Theatre

The End of Longing
Playhouse Theatre
Reviewed on Tuesday 9th February 2016
★★★

To have your debut play premiere in the West End is quite something, but to also star in it is something else! Since the nineties generations have been growing up with U.S. sitcom Friends; I remember watching episode after episode 'back in the day' on E4. Twelve years since the show aired its last series, Matthew Perry (known to many as Chandler) has written a play which certainly captures the essence of the iconic sitcom.

Rehearsal Pics: Matthew Perry's The End of Longing

Rehearsal images have been released for The End of Longing which is written by and stars Friends legend Matthew Perry. Check out the images below (click picture to enlarge).

Appearing alongside Perry are Christina Cole, Jennifer Mudge and Lloyd Owen. Lindsay Posner directs with lighting by Lucy Carter and compositions and sound by Isobel Waller-Bridge. Marking Perry's playwriting debut, The End of Longing opens at the West End's Playhouse Theatre on 11th February (previews from 2nd February) and runs until 14th May 2016. 

Meet Jack, Stephanie, Joseph and Stevie: four lost souls, entering their forties and searching for meaning. After sharing one raucous night together in a downtown Los Angeles bar, their lives become irreversibly entwined in a rollercoaster journey that forces them to confront the darker sides of their relationships.

Full casting announced for The End of Longing starring Matthew Perry

Full casting has been announced for The End of Longing which is written by and stars Friends legend Matthew Perry.

Completing the company are Christina Cole (The Magistrate/The Lightening Play), Jennifer Mudge (Into The Woods/Dutchman) and Lloyd Owen (Good People/The Bodyguard).

Lindsay Posner directs with lighting by Lucy Carter and composition and sound by Isobel Waller-Bridge. 

Marking Perry's playwriting debut, The End of Longing opens at the West End's Playhouse Theatre on 11th February (previews from 2nd February) and runs until 14th May 2016. 

Lindsay Posner to direct Friends star Matthew Perry in 'The End of Longing'

Friends icon Matthew Perry will star in his debut play The End of Longing in the West End next year.

The production will open at the Playhouse Theatre on 11th February (previews from 2nd February) and run until 14th May 2016. 

Described as a " fast paced, and bittersweet comic new play", The End of Longing will be directed by Lindsay Posner, reuniting the pair following their collaboration on the West End production of Sexual Perversity In Chicago.

Perry said "Being on stage makes you feel naked. Being on stage in a play that I have written will make me feel doubly naked. So if you'd like to see me doubly naked, tickets go on sale today."