Summary
WITH the West End bracing itself for a tough summer of security alerts and inevitably decreased box-office receipts, it can count on just one sure-fire hit this season. The oddball comedy Elling, starring John Simm and Adrian Bower, was a surprise smash at The Bush theatre and transferred last week to Trafalgar Studios on Whitehall in a blaze of critical glory almost unprecedented in recent years.
Simm, 37, latterly seen on TV as Dr Who's psychopathic nemesis The Master, couldn't have wished for a more unanimous or thrilling response from the London theatre critics for his West End debut.See the full content of this document
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"Elling is one of those rare, precious pieces of spoken-word drama that persuades even sour old cynics like me to go home riding high on waves of joie de vivre," wrote Nicholas de Jongh in this newspaper. "An involved and brilliantly funny performance from current flavour of the month, John Simm, makes Elling tick," added Kieron Quirke. "[It is] a pocketful of sunshine to see us through this lousy summer." Others have cal...
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