Lisa Lee Leslie in the touring production "Spies" by Michael Frayn
30.03.2008 21:53 Accordion World News - Source: UK Accordions Events
Lisa-Lee Leslie Lisa-Lee Leslie will be touring with the play "Spies" by Michael Frayn from March 11th - May 31st '08 and will be visiting the following towns:- Greenwich - Huddersfield - Southampton - Ipswich Cheltenham - Exeter - Guildford - Salford - Basingstoke - Poole Please support Lisa when...
Lisa-Lee Leslie will be touring with the play "Spies" by Michael Frayn
from March 11th - May 31st '08 and will be visiting the following towns:-
Greenwich - Huddersfield - Southampton - Ipswich
Cheltenham - Exeter - Guildford - Salford - Basingstoke - Poole
Please support Lisa when she visits your area with this excellent production!
(Booking links and contact details are listed below - please click "read more")
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Hello all at UKAO,
Just a quick home stop along my tour, I wanted to let you
know where we are and when.......Best Wishes - Lisa
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"Spies" by Michael Frayn - a Theatre Alibi and Oxford Playhouse co-production.
March 11 - 15 Greenwich Theatre 0208 858 7755
March 18 - 20 Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield 01484 430 528
April 1 - 5 The Nuffield Southampton 0238 067 1771
April 8 - 12 New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich 01473 295 900
April 15 - 19 Everyman Theatre Cheltenham 01242 572 573
April 22 - 26 Exeter Northcott 01392 493 493
April 29 - May 3 Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford 01483 440 000
May 6 - 10 The Lowry Salford Quays 0870 787 5790
May 13 - 17 Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke 01256 844 244
May 27 - 31 Lighthouse Poole 08700 668 701
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"Spies" - Lyn Gardner - Wednesday February 27, 2008 - The Guardian
It is wartime Britain,Stephen and his friend and neighbour Keith Hayward have a summer to fill. Excitement and the stakes rise when Keith announces that his mother is a German spy. They decide to watch her every move. Michael Frayn's novel of adult secrets and childhood mysteries is lush with the remembrance of things past. Any stage adaptation requires the theatre to be thick with the fragrance of privet hedges as the elderly Stefan sets off on a journey into the past and suburban Surrey in search of his boyhood self, Stephen. However, Theatre Alibi's attempt does not quite make the nostrils flare.
It is a quietly entertaining evening, although the first half moves slower than a snail over a well-manicured lawn. The design is ingenious but too busy, with corrugated iron rather than hedges. Only Mr Hayward's sharpening of his garden shears and whistling offer the understated menace of quiet cul-de-sacs, where hidden emotional bombs could be detonated at any time.
Theatre Alibi have a reputation as terrific storytellers and it is the narrative that carries them through here, with neat touches such as the live cello and accordion accompaniment. The show is at its best when at its quietest: Stefan peering puzzled at his younger self as if faced with a complete stranger.
The piece feels as if it needs a smaller, more intimate staging to show both Frayn's novel and the company to best advantage. But there are some fine performances here, most notably from Benjamin Warren as Stephen and John-Paul Macleod as Keith, a boy who will grow up to be just like his father.
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