by Tennessee Williams
seen at the Apollo Theatre on 26 August 2017
Benedict Andrews directs Sienna Miller as Maggie, Jack O'Connell as Brick and Colm Meaney as Big Daddy, with Kerry Fox as Big Mamma (replacing an indisposed Lisa Palfrey), Brian Gleeson as Gooper and Hayley Squires as Mae in this Young Vic revival of the play now transferred to the West End.
The play has been reset in a strangely empty space with vast metallic walls and a raked floor containing a bed, a dressing table and a shower; though it was written in 1955 some of the characters use mobile phones and there is a modern substitute for a record player - it is not clear that all this is an advantage, although the visual effect is striking and underlines the fact that all the characters are in different ways trapped.
