★★★☆☆ Two actors in a film location trailer, one slightly pompous and on the wagon, the other bitter and a practicing lush. The former, Hugh Delavois (Nigel Planer) a veteran and leading artist of all seven of the sci-fi film franchise, ‘Vulcan’, the latter, Gary Savage (Adrian Edmondson) an embittered chum from drama school days with a career on the slide
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★★★☆☆ Sebastian (Robert Lindsay) is a critic with one successful novel under his belt. He is a crusty old leftie, a nudge away from being a curmudgeonly old bore, who has by his own admission for the best part of twenty-eight years been in a loveless marriage, which has nevertheless produced a son.
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★★★☆☆ The witty wordplay of Stoppard is always something to look forward to. His playful anachronisms and deftly placed Shakespearean quotes litter the stage for those with a tuned ear. They were, one suspects, no small reason for the success of the film which is progenitor to this stage version.
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has been the Artistic Director of the National Theatre since 2015. His production of MACBETH is currently on tour. StageTalk Magazine’s GRAHAM WYLES spoke to him prior to the opening of the tour last November.
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★★★★★ It would be difficult to fault this play in any particular: the writing, acting, directing, setting and lighting are all of the highest order. There are playwrights who, having reached a kind of mastery over their art can begin to play with the audience’s expectations.
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