THE GIRLS ARE BACK IN TOWN …AND ON TOUR The hit musical will be playing an 12-week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and simultaneously touring the UK Carrie Hope…
Philby and Greene were colleagues, although like Le Carré, Greene's M16 career was halted as his name was given to the Soviets by Philby. However as Brown's play tells, Greene had a certain amount of sympathy for Philby's devotion to Communism.
Mesmerising. Andrew Scott is immediately gripping as Langley Collyer, a concert pianist with meticulous and exacting standards for the playing of music. In white tie and tails but with the bow tie undone, he rages about a note and the difference between identical and the same, which has the non musicians in the audience puzzled. His language is refined and esoteric, his personality extreme but fascinating. Our reaction is to be amused.