This National Theatre Live production is a new adaptation of Moliere's dark comedy by Martin Crimp. Starring award-winning Sandra Oh as Alice, an outspoken novelist and artist who discovers, due to her forthright views challenging fashionable ideas , that her friends and colleagues begin to drift away.

Small-time entertainers Mike and Claire, disillusioned with their individual careers, decide to join forces as a Neil Diamond tribute act calling themselves Lightning and Thunder. They experience soaring success but at a cost to their personal relationship.