The bold-minded Belfast-born playwright David Ireland has a rare ability to attract top-flight actors for his darkly comic, often taboo-testing work, with unhinged male psyches his forte. In his ...

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 ...

After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka. On the cusp of Step 5, their conversations must turn to confessionals, with ...

Luka (Jack Lowden) is new to AA. He meets James (Sean Gilder) an older man who has been in the programme for years who advises him to get a sponsor. After some initial chat, Luka asks James if he ...

When I arrived in England years ago for my studies, I was fairly shocked at my new classmates’ drinking. That’s not just because most American undergraduates are legally prohibited from purchasing ...

The U.K.’s National Theatre Live has released a new trailer for “The Fifth Step,” featuring Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses,” “Dunkirk”) and Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (“The ...

"I think I might be an incel." It's the first line Jack Lowden speaks in The Fifth Step, a two-hander play that focuses on the relationship between a recovering alcoholic and his sponsor. "The line is ...

Playwright David Ireland, Belfast-born and Glasgow-based, likes to shock. He also likes making people laugh. It’s this combination that allows his plays to be so unsettling and incendiary. Jack Lowden ...

Two men, one younger and wearing a tracksuit, the other in a smart shirt and trousers, sit across a circle of collapsible chairs from each other. “I think I might be an incel,” ponders the younger man ...