Well – firstly I must warn you that this has nothing to do with the notorious 1933 film of the same name that rocketted Hedy Lamarr to stardom. This is about a very different form of Ecstasy. Not quite as funny, or as cringeingly embarrassing, as “Abigail’s Party” , this is a welcome revival of another Mike Leigh piece from the same era. The play is basically a four-hander, the characters, somewhat financially and emotionally impoverished, trying to make the best of their lives. Jean (Sian Brooke) lives in the bed-sit, in a then, obviously, less gentrified Kilburn, in which the action is set. She has a married lover whose love-making doesn’t appear to give her much pleasure – in fact nothing seems to rouse her to much reaction, even when her lover’s wife, a barn-storming cameo by Claire-louise Cordwell, bursts in and accuses her of trying to steal Roy, the lover/husband. Then there is her best friend, Dawn, who tries to make the best of everything – shop-lifting glamorous clothes so she can look good for her bibulous Irish husband, Mick, who spends more time at the pub than he does at home. At the pub on the evening of the second act, Mick bumps into an old friend of them all, Len, and he and Dawn bring Len round to Jean’s, where they all get progressively drunker. The characters are well-drawn and, though hovering on the edge of it, never descend into stereotypical behaviour. The trouble is that,  with Coronation Street and Eastenders now on television practically daily, none of this behaviour is particularly revelatory and the action (or lack of it) becomes just a teensy bit tedious. This being said, it is wonderfully performed by an exemplary cast and directed by Mike Leigh himself, and is well worth seeing for these reasons alone.