Night After Night

Paul Shaw is a consummate actor, a thrill to see on any stage. His performance in this touching and very wise production is nothing short of stellar. The story begins in 1958 when homosexuality was considered a mental disease. A married couple meet for theatre and ponder on their future and the baby soon to be born. Shaw, who plays all the characters in Neil Bartlett’s profound script, has an understated delivery that makes the dramatization all the more powerful. His series of characters explore the need to accept who we are and what we have become as a fact of our lives. The music composed by Nicolas Bloomfield only enhances the poetic rhythms of the monologue. The tragedy is that this show was only performed for two nights and more people lost the opportunity to experience it.

The Marlborough Theatre, 1 June 2013

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