Two Way Mirror

Synopsis

One of America's best-known playwrights reflect on the nature of reality and the elusiveness of truth. A man seeks a gift for his mistress, but does the shop owner know his story before he tells it? A detective seeks a solution to a murder, but does the woman who holds the key know reality from fantasy.

Our Review:

3 March 2006

Glamour girl and Celebrity Love Islander Abi Titmuss makes her theatrical debut taking on the work of one of the world’s most celebrated playwrights – the late, great Arthur Miller – in Two Way Mirror, his semi-autobiographical collection of two very different plays about his relationship with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. And, I confess disappointingly, the enterprise is not as much of a car crash as many anticipated.

Director Mike Miller (no relation) has done a reasonable job of guiding Titmuss through what must be familiar territory as she poses in a negligee in faux-dramatic, freeze-frame moments during Act One (titled Some Kind of Love Story), a pastiche of a cop drama almost in the Top Gun vein in which Titmuss is a Monroe-type blonde bombshell who “holds the key to the case”. The comedy comes complete with cringe-worthy sound effects and cheesy music, which, although adding to the intentional naffness, does get slightly irr...

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195.157.194.124) - 29 March 2006:

I don't know what Lyn Gardner (Guardian review) was on about. What I saw was a good piece of work admirably rendered and competently performed. Ms Titmuss revealed a pleasing amount of comic talent, not just cleavage, and benefitted from the crisp direction. Mr Benedict was in his element. If you properly understand the material, and what Arthur Miller was trying to achieve with it, you can see clearly that the production here reflects this. A commendable debut by Ms Titmuss - and a strangely similar comparison, I would offer, between her detractors and those of one Ms Monroe....

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