Jack Lowden is "staggeringly good" as the young alcoholic Luka in this revised version of "The Fifth Step" at London's ...

Written by David Ireland and directed by Finn den Hertog, The Fifth Step opened in the West End earlier this month after an ...

After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka. On ...

Plays like The Fifth Step don't come around often. Those whose layered philosophical exoskeleton props up their own dramatic contradictions in quietly superb theatre. At its core, though less pure ...

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Slow Horses star Jack Lowden takes on Martin Freeman in AA drama The Fifth Step that is not at all what you expect.

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 ...

Freeman and Lowden spar like champions. The Fifth Step, carefully directed by Finn den Hertog, spins through many moods and ...

As they move towards the Fifth Step, the confessional stage in the AA programme, the cracks in his self-defined armour are beginning to show and fists, literally and metaphorically, start to fly.

There is a slight feeling of insularity to The Fifth Step, perhaps because (as he tells us in a very frank programme note) it’s rooted in Ireland’s own experiences of drink-dependency ...