Why do we learn another language? “We were speaking English. I think it is one of the greatest things two people can do together.” Marjan Serena Manteghi as Elham, Nadia Albina…
Any play starring Donald Sutherland will generate interest, especially as he has not graced the boards for twenty years and it is thirty six years since he appeared in London's West End. So it was with a certain amount of expectation that I went to London's Savoy Theatre to see this fine film actor in Enigmatic Variations, a play translated from the French by Roeg Sutherland, the actor's son.
Klaff's own script weaves his sources together with great skill into a patchwork quilt of allusions, themes, attitudes, and emotions to powerful effect. But Klaff also wears his learning lightly. There are gags-a-plenty along the way.