The View Through My Eyes

The Postman Always Rings Twice

From Left to Right: Charlotte Emerson, Joe Alessi, Lucy Bailey (Director) & Val Kilmer

One of my work colleagues had tickets she couldn't use for tonight's show of The Postman Always Rings Twice at the Playhouse Theatre, near Charing Cross. She was offering them to anyone who was interested for half price. I snapped them up (well, okay, after my boss had beaten me to it, but then couldn't use them either) and that was that. Brett was in Sweden, Rosie wasn't answering her phones, so Owen got the invite as he happened to ring me up at work today.

I don't think I've ever seen the film and I'm sure I've never read the book, so I didn't really know the plot - and I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it before either by discussing the plot. Suffice it to say it is intense and dramatic and worth paying money to see. We had seats in the centre of the second row, so had an excellent (often intimate) view of the action which is very emotionally charged and both sexually explicit and violent at times.

The evening was rounded off exceptionally by a question and answer session after the show with the three main actors and the director (pictured above.) It was interesting to see them out of character and to hear them talk about the show that you had just experienced. Unfortunately Val Kilmer, who performed very well in the show, didn't come across so well in the Q&A, coming across very much as The Celebrity, rather than a real person. The most surprising thing though, was not any of their answers but the fact that Joe Alessi, who plays a Greek immigrant in the first half and a fast-talking Jewish lawyer in the second, actually has a broad Lancashire accent!

So this is another show I would recommend to anyone who has the opportunity of seeing it.

posted by Liam @ 11:59