While you know you're watching blue-chip actors at work, the leads' performances don't carry much dramatic subtlety.
During a Live Read, blue-chip actors sit on stage at lecterns, giving a one-night-only reading of a screenplay.
Cooler, more sultry Marsay pairs with her well, and elsewhere a well-curated selection of redoubtable British actors chip in turns, including the great Sally Phillips as a new agey Australian birthing guru, as well as Gemma Jones and David Warner as Olivia's square but supportive parents.
Other actors chipped into the conversation to cheerleading effect.
Coming from Westchester doesn't soften the humiliation of, say, being offered a bologna sandwich and chips while union actors in the same room eat at a hot buffet, or of going to hundreds of auditions and booking not one single job.
Gleeson's old-man make-up won't fool anyone, Robbie's cut-glass English accent has some cracks and chips, and the actors who play Billy as a boy and a teenager (Alex Lawther) could hardly look less like one another.
Paula McFetridge, the artistic director of Kabosh and director of the play, spoke up to say that the Ulster Actors Club, in Belfast, was formed for the same reason, "so they could chip in money for actors stranded while out on the road".
Winding down at a massive pub that by law should be closed, Grant is approached by a policeman (the veteran actor Chips Rafferty in a last and bravura performance).
Ashton Kutcher found himself in hot water last week after a viral ad for Pop Chips featuring the actor in brownface stirred accusations of racism and was promptly taken down.
One actor that was in the trap, Jon Cor, told Demon FM that he had scars on his hands from the shackles, and said the other actors, Sebastian Pigott chipped his tooth and Anne Lee Greene lost the feeling in her feet and had to receive medical attention.
We believe that employers have the greatest potential to influence some of those actors and, ultimately, to chip away at high drug prices.
