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:

10 April 2012

This was reviewed at an earlier tour stop - The Dukes, Lancaster on 4th April and is currently at The Grange, Oldham.

Buckets of charisma are a must in any production of Bill Naughton’s play Alfie. How else can an audience relate to the central character of Alfie Elkins who uses and abandons women, slapping one after she has just aborted his child and generally acts with swagger and aggression?

Yes, great charm is called for otherwise the play set in London in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ is doomed from the start. Fortunately in this show produced by the Bolton Octagon, actor David Ricardo-Pearce has charisma in spades. He chats, cajoles and flirts with the audience, involving them in his narcissistic escapades and making them laugh at his callous behaviour and misogyny. Francesca Ryan‘s performance of an older woman at the height of her sensuality who gives Alfie a taste of his own,...

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