Very importantly, this is not simply a production of Oscar Wilde’s comic masterpiece and most perfect of plays. It is a play about a bunch of middle-aged (and older) amateur actors somewhere in twee middle England putting on their latest staging of Oscar’s comic masterpiece.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find two better actors on stage in London right now than Ako Mitchell as Klook and Sheila Atim as Vinette, his mesmerising girlfriend.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find two better actors on stage in London right now than Ako Mitchell as Klook and Sheila Atim as Vinette, his mesmerising girlfriend.
“Rachael’s so believable,” said my companion after this charming show. “I feel I really got to know her.”
Mamma Mia this ain’t, unfortunately. Catherine Johnson penned this in-yer-face comedy in 1998, shortly before her ABBA musical catapulted her to fame on the global stage.
Actor-playwright Oliver Cotton’s latest offering begins as a gentle domestic comedy but quickly grabs you by the throat as it confronts a homicide and some epic moral dilemmas.
Actor-playwright Oliver Cotton’s latest offering begins as a gentle domestic comedy but quickly grabs you by the throat as it confronts a homicide and some epic moral dilemmas.
Actor-playwright Oliver Cotton’s latest offering begins as a gentle domestic comedy but quickly grabs you by the throat as it confronts a homicide and some epic moral dilemmas.
Wickedly funny Scottish magicians are surely among the best in the business
Wickedly funny Scottish magicians are surely among the best in the business
