★★★☆☆Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani are two of the best actors in Britain. If you didn’t know that before seeing them in Lolita Chakrabarti’s two-hander about friendship and brotherhood, family and ambition, you certainly do by the end of these 90 minutes. Together they run the gamut of sadness and fizziness, suspicion and — a rarity on stage, and one of the evening’s selling points — show two decent blokes just enjoying each other’s company. First streamed online from the Almeida earlier this year, Blanche McIntyre’s production now reveals itself as a show that uses the catwalk-like playing space of Miriam Buether’s handsomely spare design with unforced, fluid theatricality. It starts with Sapani’s working-class Benny edging his way into the funeral of the father

Source: The Times July 30, 2021 15:56 UTC