Reader Reviews
Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead Theatre, Inner London)
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 | Like Mike Leigh's Ecstasy, which moved me immensely at Hampstead Upstairs recently, this play is about ordinary life, the day to day of friendships and relationships and listening to music. Unlike Mike Leigh's play, which gained intense focus from the skewed perspective of Sian Brooke's deeply depressed character, this play relishes the lightness of friendship, the differences between people offering opportunities for them to grow and learn. Claudie Blakely is trippy and throughly invested in her life and the lives of others, Nicola Walker is impassioned, luminous, dressed in black, intelligent and mysterious and charismatic, and brilliant with it. Tamsin Outhwaite is sporty and gay, bold, reliable and decent. The three actresses take you through a lifetime of friendship that offers up ordinary happiness and ordinary unhappiness, and shows how friendship enriches both the moments of joy and the moments of misery. A brilliantly acted wonderful production that resonates. - Steve | 24 Sep 11 |
