King's Theatre * * * *
Review by Thom Dibdin
DELIBERATELY poignant, without tipping the scales into mawkishness, this touring production of Rain Man gives the original 1988 Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster a comfortable home on the live stage.
Review by Thom Dibdin
DELIBERATELY poignant, without tipping the scales into mawkishness, this touring production of Rain Man gives the original 1988 Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster a comfortable home on the live stage.
This is down to a pair of purposeful, well-stated and thoroughly believable performances from Neil Morrissey and Oliver Chris, with an equally well-judged supporting performance from Ruth Everett.
The central character of Raymond Babbitt, an autistic savant who has been institutionalised since his childhood, is a peach of a part as Dustin Hoffman showed in the original. But it is all too easy to forget that...
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