London - Canal Café Theatre - 2-20 February 2010 - 19:30 (1:20)
Peter (Alex Barclay) is a playwright, mainly would-be, with a history of duff romances in his private life. Charles (Sion Tudor Owen) is an out-of-date actor, his moderate successes long gone by. The two men have quarreled working together on a past project. Now Charles has a plan. He's trying to have sex with his much younger new object of desire Geraldine (Abi Titmuss). He reckons that a play written by Peter for him and Geraldine will (a) achieve sexual intercourse and (b) make him a star, both interrelated......... ...... It's a good-looking cast with clever contrasts in physical size, well-suited to the comedy of the script. Sion Tudor Owen delivers an aimably podgy and medium-height Charles capable of huge fits of rage and extreme expression alongside Charles's more reflective moments. Alex Barclay's tall lanky Peter goes well physically with Charles as a kind of end-of-pier comic couple, and his Peter is a believable character building from manic reasonableness to raw mania. Abi Titmuss brings out Geraldine's manipulative essence. She works the strands of Geraldine into the delivery of a flesh-and-blood complex person, a credible catalyst driving the play's switchback turns.
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