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Beautiful Child - One4Review

This is the UK Premier of Nicky Silver’s new play that is a mixture of comedy and tragedy and is wonderfully staged and performed by this young company. Harry, Richard Weinman, and Nan, Emily Murphy, are trapped in a loveless marriage. Their son Isaac, Alex Eisenberg, is a school teacher and frustrated painter. Harry is having yet another affair with his somewhat ordinary secretary Delia, Charlotte Brookes, who is pregnant by Harry and keen for a permanent relationship, as still lives at home with an abusive father. When Isaac visits his parents’ house, an awful secret is revealed and he begs with his parents to let him remain there. But will they? How do they square the naturally protective feelings for their son with their feelings for his admission and their responsibilities to society in general? And is it the first time something like this has occurred? Julia Stidolph plays Dr Hilton and Victor’s mother, the woman in the pale blue coat and relates her part in Isaac’s history? Does this assist or hinder their final decision? To find out the answers to this ultimate poser, and experience the trauma that is going on you better get your ticket fast as the show closes on August 29.   ****

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