Reader Reviews
Sugar Mummies (Royal Court - Jerwood Theatre, West End)
Back to Show Details| Score | Comment | Date |
 | This is an enjoyable play covering several issues, not just sexual tourism but the effect of tourism in general on a variety of individuals, whether island resident or visitor. It is not intended to be pivotal or polemic but a more an observation without judgement. Well acted and directed. - 217.36.28.3) | 16 Aug 06 |
| This slightly aimless, intermittently funny play is decidedly soap operatic. The characters are cliches, the dialogue is mostly merely serviceable and there is little sense of the Caribbean in Rubasingham's slightly clumsy staging. I am sure there is a fascinating piece to be written about female sexual tourism but this isn't really it: I agree with Gareth that the second half is alot stronger than the first. For me, the acting was enormously patchy: some of it was way below the standard one might expect at the Court, although there is a beautiful performance by Lorna Gayle as the watchful island woman Angel. - 89.145.197.114) | 15 Aug 06 |
| Well, 3.5 actually, but I thought I should provide some balance! The play's depth - its issues - are mostly in Act II, which makes it a bit of an uneven ride. However, it does tackle them objectively within a well-plotted storyline rather than the current vogue for undramatic verbatim theatre or monologues. The performances are uniformly good and the design does provide a believable Carribean beach. Not ground-breaking, not the best of the Royal Court's 50th season, but well worth a visit. - 86.134.146.140) | 15 Aug 06 |
| I did find at times the writing too authorial and expostional. I also felt the writer held back, she could have explored the dark side of both worlds much more, but I come away liking it very much. Good direction, wonderful acting. - 195.93.21.105) | 12 Aug 06 |
