THEATRE REVIEW
Honour titillates the dramatic senses
 By
Grainne McLoughlin
IRISH actress Natascha McElhone stars in West End play Honour as Claudia
an ambitious journalist who ignites a crisis.
Dame Diana Rigg plays Honor the wife of George — played by Martin
Jarvis — for whom she gave up a promising literary career.
The arrival of Claudia to interview George initiates a crisis that precipitates
both unforeseen consequences and equally surprising resolutions affecting
the couple and their grown-up daughter Sophie.
At the outset their long marriage appears happy but then nothing is ever
as it seems.
Honor wonders if the loving relationship she enjoys with her intellectual
husband is based more on the memory of how it used to be rather than how
it truly is.
When her husband George sees Claudia he remembers how his wife used to
be.
He pursues her and leaves his wife proclaiming: “I’m not dead
yet.”
Then throw into the mix daughter Sophie who is pulled into the whole affair.
She is disgusted at her father’s behaviour and annoyed at her mother
for letting him rule her life and ultimately in awe of Claudia for her
determination and good looks.
Honour, written by Marie Smith, will now run in the West End Wyndhams
Theatre until May 6.
A play about adultery, midlife crisis and the break-up of a long marriage
Honour will certainly titillate the senses.
McElhone has also starred in films including The Truman Show and Charles
Dance’s Ladies In Lavender.
Honour is booking until May 6 in Wyndhams Theatre. For further information
and tickets contact 0870 9500925.
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