Adulation and Flagellation - TE Lawrence "How do you give away countries?" TE Lawrence Douglas Clarke Wood as TE Lawrence, Suzanna Hamilton as Dr Caroline Howard. (Photo: Upstairs at the Gatehouse)…
Gilbert conducts his businees on a bicycle delivering foot massages and other unspeakably disgusting forms of foot care, like corn trimming, verruca excising and toe fungus treatment.
The play opens with Hugh (Gary Heron) phoning a friend, well a colleague or a rival critic, with some jubilant news as to his selection for a safe Tory seat, but first he has to clear the skeletons out of his closet. He phones Monique his girlfriend and masseuse to arrange a celebration breaking into rather poor French. We are in Hugh’s luxury flat, the walls dripping with expensive and original art and we have just met this self centred, self absorbed divorcé. On the table are copies of his latest book, Alternative Therapy drawing attention to his appearances on BBC’s Question Time.