My City
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Synopsis
How would you feel if, 15 years after you last saw them, you bumped into the one person who had the biggest influence on your life? On a dusky evening, Richard Kenton finds his primary school headmistress lying on a park bench in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. As he becomes reacquainted with her and the other teachers that helped shape him, memories of their vivid and imaginative lessons come to life and their tales of London inspire him once more.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 16 September 2011
Weird and slightly creepy, Stephen Poliakoff’s new play, his first in the theatre for 12 years, paints a dark night of the soul in the recesses of London, full of stories and secrets, ghosts and desires.
Richard, an unsettled young market researcher, finds his old primary school teacher, Miss Lambert, asleep on a bench on the Embankment in the shadow of St Paul’s. She remembers exactly who he is, one of her most difficult, dyslexic and imaginative pupils.
He then links up with his school contemporary Julie, and we’re off on an odyssey of remembrance and reconstruction, with flash backs to school assemblies and revelations not just of Miss Lambert, but also of her colleagues, the gloriously named Minken (David Troughton) and Summers (Sorcha Cusack).
Poliakoff directs his own play, which is so distinctive and heartfelt that you (or at least I) can happily live with the enigmatic discursiveness of it all. And it’s great to see [Tr...
Latest User Review
rds - 28 October 2011:
What was he thinking of? Poliakoff has done such wonderful things in the past .... has he just lost his touch? One would hope it is only temporary. How this got to the point of being staged at the Almeida gawd only knows. Reputation,clearly, still counts a lot, but surely against better judgement? Never mind as - Must Try Harder - See Me - 2/10. And keep this up and there's always detention! (PS: WOS still haven't sorted this website out as it's still showing here one of my reviews from years back!)...
Cast
Tracey Ullman (Lambert)
Hannah Arterton (Waitress)
Sian Brooke (Julie)
Sorcha Cusack (Summers)
Tom Riley (Richard)
David Troughton (Minken)
Creative
Stephen Poliakoff (Author)
Almeida Theatre (Producer)
Stephen Poliakoff (Director)
Lez Brotherson (Design)
Oliver Fenwick (Lighting)
Ben Ringham (Sound)
Max Ringham (Sound)
Ben Ringham (Music)
Max Ringham (Music)
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