Alan Bennett's Talking Heads ★★★★★

(May 2017)

Directed by Annalisa Rossi. 

Theatre Review: Turning heads and the talk of the town

★★★★★

...It’s a rare occasion that a series of monologues, served only by modest (but precisely arranged and coloured) staging, can evoke such a vivid series of images and a rich sense of period and personality... What’s striking is this cast’s obvious affinity with the material. Each of the three members give soulful, hilarious, full-blooded performances, perfectly embodying their roles, so as to disappear into them to delicious effect. And this is absolutely by design: in order to adapt the works for a 90-minute stage production, Italian director Annalisa Rossi challenged three British, Malmö-based actors from Playmate theatre to select a single character study from the original series – one that would play best to their individual strengths....

Standout performance...Of particular note was Graham, as portrayed by Robin Gott...The result being that each role is performed with an immaculate ear for the text by all three players, lending a hyper-real emotionality that, like the heightened social realism of Mike Leigh’s best work, veers toward caricature but never mockery, nor does it fail to hit its mark."

http://cphpost.dk/activities/theatre-review-turning-heads-and-the-talk-of-the-town.html

May 9th, 2017 12:46 pm| by Mark Walker/

With Kevin Benn, Robin Gott,Vanessa Poole.

Music by Claudio Rosati.

Playmate Theatre Malmö presents, in collaboration with Down the Rabbit Hole Theatre, Copenhagen, :

David Ives' Venus in Fur

(September 2017)

With Vanessa Poole as Vanda & Alex Lehman as Kushemski.

★★★★★★