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CAVIAR & CHIPS
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LEVELLAND BY RICH HALL
HIDE AND SEEK Black gold: dark comedy 00. Experimental theatre O
I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT GODDARD! A film in the flesh COO
LIES HAVE BEEN TOLD
Lifting the lid on an infamous legend .00. ; .;
Among the pantheon of public villains of the last quarter century, the :‘v
Archers, Mandelsons, Murdochs and Blairs, the name of Robert Maxwell . ' : must rank high in any reasonable person‘s consideration. So it’s an ‘ I exceptional show that can render the late Mirror Group publisher and i :x '
pension scheme embezzler into a believably human. if not exactly ' °' :' .: 2 : ,' ' :' :1 .' : . sympathetic figure. f3l.i"vl Lil} in. it" in: Hi ~ 2" : ' '
It does so through the format of an evening in his plush office. As he Hmi 'mf, : l .: l‘l- 'w: I i v: .~ w :' .' " gulps crudely away at champagne and other beverages, and greedin :wrwm " 331-4.: w, ', :w .' ' . . 4' : " r consumes caviar, he takes us through his life. From his earliest days as an '* tiw- Kati" tr~ 'szli'rx: iwiui'rin t' w .- ~ .~ ‘ impoverished Czech Jew, through his wartime escapades, some of which «in. [H ismvv; n. w 2 2 are to be taken with a pinch of salt, and on to his days as a publishing mm in. f"e- ifs/1 :. afiv' l“) ‘v vi. HAIRDRESSER IN THE tycoon, there is a consistent theme of exclusion and resultant disaffection : t';: -\ ‘i i n: .. "ii I l ‘3 in his life. Maxwell, the man himself explains, may have been a bully, a rd w- Ti' ; f~ '1‘, l' : Ha'r’ra's'ng ... crook and a monster, yet there is a constant link to causality in this 'i in" i ' " w -,- 1 i« ' ' ‘ ' process. For Maxwell was the constant victim of a British establishment :18 a 21M w 2 i' w ° .' ' .. " ' steeped in xenophobia, anti Semitism and class bigotry, and his bitterness T' .11 ~ if? i : r v ‘ "' w and hunger drove him on. His belief, stated early and often, that people " .' ~ " “ '. ' ' : believe what they want to believe, and hear what they want to hear is born : ' w l " " T' w 1 out by his experience as well as his philosophy as a hands-on publisher. a: i" . :v * .‘T -' in;
Alan Dosser's tight. pacy, intimate production is a sight to behold, and a : .zftw. f'w snafu z . . truly astonishing performance from Philip York will remain a memory for "r: ‘7: r ' trw-z '* ,' ~- w: ,' :1. " w many years to come. Rod Beacham’s writing is subtle and garishly x.) :f ,' ‘ 1 r i' : z. 1' : extravagant by turns. This is a tight piece of tragi comedy with relevance '. wan" ’.' z ' i' 2 beyond the man himself. (Steve Cramer) :2» ';~’,-' .~' :1 f, f r:°': . ‘
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