Bring the House Down
by Charlotte Runcie
Descriptions
A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist tinderbox.Alex Lyons always has his mind made up by the time the curtain comes down at a performance?the show either deserves a five-star rave or a one-star pan. Anything in between is meaningless. On the opening night of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he doesn?t deliberate over the rating for Hayley Sinclair?s show, nor does he hesitate when the opportunity presents itself to have a one-night stand with the struggling actress.Unaware that she?s gone home with the theater critic who?s just written a career-ending review of her, Hayley wakes up at his apartment to see his scathing one-star critique in print on the kitchen table, and she?s not sure which humiliation offends her the most. So she revamps her show into a viral sensation critiquing Alex Lyons himself?entitled son of a famous actress, serial philanderer, and