Mcavoy Leads a Magnificent Cast Dampened by the Too-Grey Rain

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THE pulling-power of movie stars may still keep fragile plays buoyant in the turbulent waters of the West End, where a fleet of musicals are riding out the economic storms. But Richard Greenberg's Three Days Of Rain, which flourished in the studio-theatre intimacy of the Donmar in 1999, needs more than the evident charisma, emotional power and pathos of James McAvoy, to maintain such an insubstantial, underdeveloped family drama.

With a plot that depends upon an old diary hidden under a mattress, a revelation in a will and a man's discovery of his girl in bed with another man, Three

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Mcavoy Leads a Magnificent Cast Dampened by the Too-Grey Rain

Days Of Rain strikes old-fashioned and cliched notes. Greenberg does, though, dream up a psychologically nuanced, challenging theatr...

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