The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Synopsis

Quiet, private Little Voice sings as sweetly as the divas in her father's record collection - Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey, Billie Holiday...Little Voice can do them all. When her mother's flash new man Ray Say hears her sing he can't believe his luck thinking that he has finally found the meal ticket he has been looking for..but will Little Voice give in to his schemes? A poignant and funny love story The Rise and Fall of Little Voice was a huge hit in the West End and on Broadway and as a movie achieved worldwide acclaim and a number of Oscar nominations.

Our Review:

30 April 2013

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is now over twenty years old, but is as strong today as the first time when it was produced in 1992. Jim Cartwright's script is tempered in pace, with highlights of humour which lifts it from being straight drama.

LV lives with her loud, brash mother, doesn't go out and spends her time listening to the records that her father left her when he died. In the privacy of her bedroom she mimics the voices she hears, driving her mother mad. However when she is heard by her mother's sleazy new boyfriend, she is pressured into performing in public, which she hates.

Jess Robinson as LV is suitably small in stature but large in her vocal talents. A lot of the mimicry comes from inflection and actions but this does not detract from Miss Robinson's stunning vocals. She is equally as impressive though as the quiet retiring young woman dominated by her mother.

Beverley Callard as her mother Mari, is a over the top as befits the l...

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