Alys, Always London Reviews and Tickets

Hytner’s brisk production, with a live cello score and dynamic set and projections from Bob Crowley and Luke Halls, is effortlessly watchable, and often very funny in its digs at class, privilege and arts hacks.'
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Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt is compelling in this black comedy of manners ...it’s fairly tame stuff...And yet it quietly grips.'
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It is all quite enjoyable, but it feels incredibly lightweight...With its elegant cello interludes, and its careful story-telling, this is theatre as an after-dinner mint, bland and inoffensive.'
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Here's another predictable (and sometimes far-fetched) drama set amongst the glitterati of London's literati...What it does have... are gripping performances from Joanne Froggatt...and Robert Glenister...'
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Even if that makes for predictable drama, the piece is stylishly presented... It is all smoothly done without ever creating a palpable sense of danger.'
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For a thriller, it’s weirdly suspense-free. It is also thin, aimless and mired in cliché – and Hytner’s production, for all its starry cast, is startlingly naff.'
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Adaptation of Harriet Lane's psychological and satirical bestseller never quite takes off... The chief pleasure of this evening lies in the continuous satirical jibes at journalism and at family life.'
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Froggatt is the star here — and you really can’t take your eyes off her — but the rest of the cast are tip-top...The set, by Bob Crowley, is a thing of wonder...'
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