After enormous success in recent Edinburgh appearances with both Dickens and Shakespeare, Simon Callow returns with the British premier and first UK adaptation of the French sensation LE MARDI A MONOPRIX, a Moliere-nominated play about love, life and death amongst the shopping trolleys. Read more …
Here is Callow as you have never seen him starring as Pauline, loving daughter, carer and transvestite. The play took Paris by storm. Simon Callow is a national treasure and one of Britains greatest actors with an incredible career that spans Four Weddings and Amadeus to innumerable stage incarnations, most recently with Dr Marigold and Mr Chops and Shakespeare The Man from Stratford. This promises to be a true Edinburgh event and one definitely not to be missed.
Despite the unquestionable pleasure of an hour in the company of this personable performer, the strongest impression is likely to be of a wasted opportunity.
Emmanuel Darley’s 75 minute monologue has more than its fair share of dull passages, and Callow’s playing of it in blond wig and high heels, is over the top and overly theatrical, where a more subtle approach might reap better dividends.
Simon Callow leaves familiar territory behind in one-man Edinburgh show
Assembly @ Assembly Hall, Edinburgh from Saturday August 6, 2011, until Monday August 29, 2011. More info: www.assemblyfestival.com/