5@50, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: With plenty of drinking, dinner parties, and trash talk about sex and relationships, it would be so easy to see Brad Fraser's new play about the lives of five women as a grown-up Sex and the City. In fact, although there are enough rip-roaringly funny lines from this caustic Canadian playwright to populate a satisfying sitcom, Fraser's world is less Jimmy Choos, more booze. These are all, in their own way, women on the verge of a nervous br...