Peggy For You London Reviews and Tickets

A captivating central performance from Tamsin Greig just about lifts Alan Plater’s portrait of literary agent Peggy Ramsay into something more than an act of theatrical navel gazing.
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Tamsin Greig, as Peggy, plays her as a posh, flouncing and vaguely rakish woman with a witty intelligence. But even Greig’s charisma cannot save this play from its dated ideas and sleepy drama.
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A hit for Hampstead in 1999, with Maureen Lipman in the title role, and Tamsin Greig now doing the honours in a fresh revival, Plater’s play asserts a simple truth about its subject. She barely cared about conventional success, put Art on a pedestal.
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Greig exudes a charm that wanders between the chaotic and the bullying...Peggy For You ends up resonant as well as amusing, whether or not you know one theatrical Alan from another.
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Already a much beloved actress, and surely only a BAFTA or two away from full National Treasure status, Tamsin Greig proves once again what a tremendous stage performer she is, a brilliant technician with truth, precision and killer comic timing.
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It’s an articulation of resilience very necessary in these times of shuttering stages, making the revival an appropriate reaffirmation of theatre, indeed of life itself. A seasonal treat.
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