It doesn't seem so long ago
since this play was causing an furore in the West End when Nicole
Kidman starred, and again when it went on tour with Tracy Shaw and
Jason Connery, and now it finds it's way to the Fringe this year.
This
play by David Hare is freely adapted from La Ronde by Arthur
Schnitzler, is a two hander with Caroline Bell-Emie playing the
female roles of Girl, Au Pair, Married Woman, Model, Actress and
finally Girl again and Alex Donald playing Cab Driver, Student,
Politician, Playwright, and Aristocrat.
This
piece is in essence ten short plays each one linked to the
previous initially Girl and Cab Driver, then Cab Driver and Au
pair, Au pair and Student and so on until La Ronde is completed as
we return the Girl as each duo stumble through sexual courtships.
This
excellent production was well performed and neither actor seemed
phased by the nudity that that they play requires, but the edge
was taken of it for me by the lighting in the first two playlets
being 'moody' to the point of obscurity, some of the flats were very poorly finished and where all white, Is the play not called
The BLUE Room?
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