The insecurity in turn results in the girlfriend changing her behaviour and telephoning him at home, where the Wife answers, and then hanging up.  Pierre visits a strange man, Man in Black (Finbar Lynch in bizarre white face and dark eye makeup) who could be a psychiatrist.  The Man in Black relates the tale of The Forest where a hunter chases after a white stag, thinks he has caught up with it, several times, but never does.  Is this some kind of metaphor for man’s desire for sexual conquest which is never fulfilling? 

Along the way we see as we do in the infidelity plays, deceit and lies and long suffering or blind wives and girlfriends.  The cast are superb, Toby Stephens shows ambivalence “cake and eat it” style and Paul McGann dressed alike looks and behaves believably as if he is the same man.  Gina McKee appears to be a broken woman showing care and concern for her husband.  Angel Coulby as the Girlfriend racks up to boiling point. 

Anna Fleischle’s cleverly compartmentalised, three part set divides off the Man’s Home, Office and Girlfriend’s Bedroom.  The bedroom is staged above the home with the office to one side. In later scenes the home fills up with flowers that keep arriving but I’m not sure that anyone knows why?  Jonathan Kent directs this open ended play allowing the ambiguity to dominate. 

I think it is sad that the women in this play allow their life to be defined by their relationship with a man.  The final scene cannot be revealed as it is too much of a spoiler but you will be debating the meaning of it in relation to what has gone before.