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GEORGINA BROWN reviews Manhunt at Royal Court in London: Mesmerising insight into the muddled mind of a MONSTER

GEORGINA BROWN: Projected on to a screen is the figure of a man, pacing his cell like a caged bear, his shaved head a glistening ball - shiny as mercury, and just as impermeable.

The rules of the game are simple: sound interesting (musician better than accountant), talk holidays, get her back to your place, insist there's no sex on a first date to set a challenge, play Amy Winehouse to prove you're a sensitive soul. As Cashel discovers when Honey's current squeeze, Maya, who is played by Adeyinka Akinrinade, introduces him to her up-for-it therapist friend, Eloise (Game of Thrones' Nell Tiger Free) The men are considerably better-written and more amusing than the sketchily drawn women, but Kember skilfully charts that tricky emotional passage from no-strings to tentative connection to provisional attachment to tying the knot.

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