When the post show discussion on Twitter centres on whether forgotten lines and prompts were part of the play or not is does have you wondering. At first I thought it was me and not the play, as to why I was a little confused about what was going on but the discussion highlighted the small amount of time the actors had to rehearse. Now I am thinking it might have been the play.

The President Has Come to See You is the first in a season of six new plays in the Royal Court's Open Court season. The idea is to have one company of actors performing a play a week with one week's rehearsal.

It was only late last week that the company was announced presumably drastically reducing their rehearsal time for this first play. And if that was indeed the case then they did a sterling job considering but there was a scene about three quarters through that became very fragmented with forgotten lines. Paul Bhattacharjee, playing the President, seemed to get angry either with himself or the slow prompt and some of the other actors looked a little awkward.