one4review | On 17, Aug 2026

We had Fun is a thoughtful and deliberately uncomfortable exploration of consent, friendship and the troubling space between two very different recollections of the same night.

Oscar and Ella are work colleagues and friends. When Ella arrives at Oscar’s flat to discuss what happened after a drunken night out, they agree on many of the details. It is the crucial moments, however, where their memories and interpretations diverge. Affable Oscar is genuinely hurt by the suggestion that Ella did not consent to sex, while the spikier Ella is equally determined to remain friends but needs him to understand that, for her, he overstepped a line.

Through confrontations in Oscar’s flat and an encounter while trapped in a lift, the night itself is gradually re-enacted. Oscar’s flatmates Sid and Quinn swiftly rearrange the props between scenes, while also cleverly miming parts of Oscar and Ella’s conversations, adding another layer to the storytelling.

The play wisely resists providing easy answers or reducing either character to hero or villain. Instead, it asks its audience to consider how consent is communicated, understood and remembered.

Some welcome light relief comes courtesy of Ella’s pet tarantula, whose appearances prompted wonderfully audible cringes from the audience. An intelligent, challenging and thought-provoking piece and very worth seeing.

****1/2

Reviewed by Rona

Emmeline Hartley and Jack Mullings

Summerhall Old Lab
Until 31st (not 18th or 25th)