★★★☆☆ It is remarkable that such a flimsy, improbable concoction set on board the transatlantic liner, Italian Castle, should enjoy an apparently charmed life at the hands of, firstly; Ferenc Molnár, the originator, then P.G.Wodehouse and now Tom Stoppard. . . . This is playful Stoppard without the head scratching.
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★★★☆☆ Written with a certain amount of sentimentality around a lost love the play offers us false trails; is it about rekindled passion, perhaps in an open relationship, or then is it about past indiscretion, a coming home to roost of an abuse of authority or position? It eventually turns out to be a wistful contemplation on a secret love affair.
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★★★★☆ Plunged into a long sleepless night of self-reflection, Lewis is ‘visited’ by three generations of male forebears each bearing harrowing chapters from a story that climbs from the privations of slavery and a harrowing lynching to drunkenness and early death from drug overdose.
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★★★★★ After welcoming the audience personally at the door and offering everyone a cup of tea and a hobnob biscuit, Lockyer begins his story. He was a successful actor for the RSC, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Stratford. He had some hours to kill before a performance.
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★★★☆☆ The nature of the piece makes it difficult to generate any real tension, but the cast make up for it with some witty cameos. It’s an example of a genre that sets out to do nothing but entertain and that it does with some style.
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