Alfie

Synopsis

Taking full advantage of the 1960's sexual revolution, Alfie treats women like play things and shies away from responsibility, but this feckless philanderer has the ladies falling at his feet - well for now anyway! After numerous love affairs, a health scare and being knocked back by a woman he has actually fallen in love with - Alfie begins to wonder what his life is all about?

Our Review:

22 January 2012

Opening its new Spring season, the Octagon goes back to its roots with a revival of Bolton lad Bill Naughton’s beady-eyed look at the Swinging Sixties.

Alfie has appeared as a novel, a play and an iconic film, the latter, in the Oscar-nominated Michael Caine version, being the image of the piece that is likely to be lodged in most people’s minds. So, there’s work to do if a live stage revival is going to hold its own against that.

David Thacker’s - puzzlingly slow-paced - production underlines the dark heart of the piece, decidedly not underplaying that fact that it’s a vicious self-centered schemer with no respect for others who is at the centre of the story.

Alfie juggles his life and his women like a circus performer and tries to abandon relationships as soon as they hint at complications. Now, after years of ducking and diving and constant denial, his world has started to come apart,...

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