Life After Scandal
From: Thursday, 20th September 2007
To: Saturday, 20 October 2007
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Soans here turns his brand of verbatim theatre - mixing investigative journalism with drama - towards the national obsession with scandal. He interviews those affected, and uses their words to explore our media-saturated culture.
Our Review:
26 September 2007
It was only a matter of time before the current craze for “verbatim” theatre – the recycling by actors of interviews with real people in order to make a political point – embraced the celebrity culture. In Life After Scandal, Robin Soans has unpicked a series of scandalous affairs that all blazed in the glare of media attention.
At either end of the historical span, we have Lord Montagu of Beaulieu recalling his prosecution for homosexual offences with boy scouts and airmen before the age of tolerance and legality; and Neil and Christine Hamilton blustering on blithely after the end of the former’s political career as a result of the “brown envelopes” affair – taking cash payment for asking questions in the House of Commons.
Interestingly, Lord Montagu and the Hamiltons were in the first night audience, as if to confirm that we don’t really remember what they were guilty of any more. If indeed they were guilty at all.
But Soans preserves...
Cast
Bruce Alexander
Philip Bretherton
Simon Coates
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Michael Mears
Tim Preece
Caroline Quentin
Creative
Robin Soans (Author)
Hampstead Theatre (Producer)
Drum Theatre Plymouth (Producer)
Anthony Clark (Director)
Patrick Connellan (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Marcus Christensen (Sound)
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