Surviving Spike
From: Thursday, 31st July 2008
To: Monday, 25 August 2008
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Synopsis
Surviving Spike is an intimate glance into the personal life of Spike Milligan by Norma Farnes - his agent, manager and confidante for 36 years - and the only person who ever really knew him. Encompassing the surreal comedy for which he was renowned, Spike's extraordinary life is seen through Norma's eyes as this play reveals the tormented character that hid behind the public façade.
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15 August 2008
He was one of the great eccentrics of British comedy, his humour coming from a place that few understood, and no one would seek to copy. But that’s enough about Michael Barrymore. This is a play about the turbulent life of Spike Milligan, genius comic writer, womanizer, manic depressive and much-loved oddball.
Surviving Spike, adapted for the stage by Richard Harris, tells of Milligan’s later life through the eyes of his manager and confidante Norma Farnes (ex-EastEnder Jill Halfpenny) with whom he worked closely for 36 years and who stabilized and organized his life. Milligan suffered from bipolar depression and we see him flit back and forth between the generous, gentle and creative side of his character and the manic, argumentative and juvenile other. Michael Barrymore seems to possess the cuddly Spike more comfortably than the aggressive, seemingly unwilling to turn the audience against him in any way.
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