Eugene O’Hare’s latest production, Sydney and the Old Girl, is about an ill-tempered old woman and her miserable son, living together in an East London flat. The pair despise each other but also depend on each other. Nell (Miriam Margoyles) claims that her son, Sydney (Mark Hadfield), makes her skin crawl, while Sydney refers to his mother as a ‘deaf old snatch’. The hatred between them is palpable, hilarious, and occasionally bordering on the depressing. The entrance of Nell’s carer, ...
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Road, Royal Court Theatre – Review
A typically gritty portrayal of life in the finest tradition of northern playwrights.
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A series of short plays, performed with gusto and cheek and genuinely side-splittingly funny at times.
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An ambitious production that promised unfettered excitement but which ended up erring more on the side of plodding and predictable.
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