Breakfast at Tiffany's
From: Wednesday, 9th September 2009
To: Saturday, 9 January 2010
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Synopsis
New York City, 1943. William ‘Fred’ Parsons, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Miss Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William - but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or José, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William - and then her past catches up with her...
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Michael Coveney - 30 September 2009
Well, I know Anna Friel’s played whores before – she was a terrific Lulu at the Almeida, and she turned tricks in Jimmy McGovern’s The Street on television – but that’s not strong enough an impulse to justify a stage version of Truman Capote’s touching and beautiful novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Or is it? Will audiences be agreeably shocked that this Holly Golightly services old men in the powder room to maintain a city lifestyle in her 1943 New York brownstone, recalled in 1957, where she falls in with the Capote-style wannabe writer from Alabama?
Playwright Samuel Adamson hopes you will engage with the story on stage despite having bought a ticket because you love the movie. But this is disingenuous of him. You can take a ride on the movie title as long as you do something wonderful and additional to either movie or book. Adamson and director Sean Mathias do neither.
The show stutters along as a feeble hymn to Manhattan and an even ...
Latest User Review
UBA 76 - 6 January 2010:
Afraid to say the worst event i have seen in the west end in years. My friend and I went on a night of very bad weather and were disappointed at the interval that the weather was ok and we didn't have a reason to leave! The cast (except James D) are average at best, accents all over the place. The pace of the show is jarring and the set lazy. Need to watch the film again quickly to fall back in love with Holly....
Cast
Suzanne Bertish (Madama Spanella)
James Bradshaw (Rusty Trawler)
Gwendoline Christie (Mag Wildwood)
Paul Courtney Hyu (Ensemble)
Joseph Cross (William 'Fred' Parsons)
Dermot Crowley (Joe Bell)
Felix D'Alviella (Jose Ybarra-Jaegar)
James Dreyfus (O J Berman)
Anna Friel (Holly Gollightly)
Nicholas Goh (Mr Yunioshi)
Annie Hemingway (Ensemble)
Sam Hoare (Ensemble)
Natalie Klamar (Middy Munson)
David Phelan (Sid Arbuck)
John Ramm (Doc Golightly)
Creative
Truman Capote (Book)
Colin Ingram (by arrangement with The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company) (Producer)
Samuel Adamson (Adaptation)
Samuel Adamson (Adaptation)
Sean Mathias (Director)
Anthoy Ward (Design)
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