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The Octagon presents the World Premiere of David Lodge’s Secret Thoughts; a dazzling and witty exploration of love and deception, and the connection between the brain and the heart.

Married University professor Ralph Messenger has a reputation as a ground-breaking cognitive scientist and a notorious philanderer. When he meets the recently bereaved novelist Helen Reed, sparks fly and battle commences. It’s science against art and morality against indulgence. But as their passionate and argumentative relationship develops into sexual attraction, their intellectual foreplay looks like it could become a full blown affair of the body and mind.

David Lodge is one of the UK’s foremost writers whose astonishing career has spanned more than fifty years. He has won many awards, including the Royal Television Society's Award for Best Drama Serial (Nice Work) and the Whitbread Book of the Year (How Far Can You Go?). Secret Thoughts is adapted from his acclaimed novel Thinks…

Age guidance: 15. This production contains strong language and adult themes.