You could almost call Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 absurdist farce typecasting, what with it featuring a married couple with decades together under their belts. The Romanian-born French playwright, whose mother was Jewish, could hardly have envisaged a husband and wife duo of physical…

From the get-go, Cordelia Lynn’s two protagonists are engaged in a sort of dangerous dance that is by turns wary, ardent, passionate and physical. But when passion turns violent, there are unexpected and shocking twists…