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Theatre: The Philanthropist
The Week Middle East
|April 29, 2017
“Last weekend, I was rashly telling friends how rare it is to see bad acting on the London stage,” said Dominic Maxwell in The Times.
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“My punishment has been swift.” A witty inversion of Molière’s The Misanthrope, Christopher Hampton’s 1970 play is a rather delicate tragicomedy about a philology lecturer whose compulsive amiability causes endless havoc. But it needs “crack stage acting if it is to have emotion as well as snark”. It doesn’t get it in this “terrible” production. Director Simon Callow’s “callow cast” struggles with the “basics of looking comfortable on stage”, and is comprised of a slate of younger TV actors known for their work on the likes of Friday Night Dinner, The Inbetweeners and Call the Midwife – plus an oddly u
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