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THE COCKPIT GAY BAR LONDON TRIAL
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The set is charming and the lighting effective but director Scott Alan really has to grasp that if you stage something in the round you must keep your cast on the move so that they perform to all four corners of the globe.
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Ms Jacobs as the slightly more mature Lesbian comes off best, possibly because she gets the better songs, even if she does end up, a Lesbian no more, with Mr John-Wilson now an alcoholic reformed. Emma Hatton belts out her audition number splendidly, Alexia Khadime is impressive as the impregnated lesbian, and Andy Coxon and Adrian Hansel make the gay romance very amusing to follow, while as the man on the downward slope Dean John-Wilson warbles very well indeed and gets his shirt taken off in a dream sequence surrounded by masked furies revealing a six pack as well toned as his vocal chords. We meet a girl auditioning for a role in a musical, two gay guys who fall in love, get married and decide to have a baby, a couple of lesbians whose affair does not prosper – later one gets pregnant and guess who gets the baby – and a mournful man with a drink problem. Well played though the music is there is just so much cat gut scraping one can take. Things are not helped by the accompaniment of piano and a violin. The songs, with possibly the exception of His Name, an amusing point number about a girl who has forgotten the name of last night’s lover and since her using it excited him cannot call him again, performed with verve by Jodie Jacobs, are mostly to be lachrymose in the extreme. There is no reason to want to find out what happens to the random collection of people who assemble in a park and whose paths may or may not cross. The problem is, however one regards the songs, some of which Scott Alan has used elsewhere, by calling it a song cycle he has avoided having a book. Let’s be quite clear, that third star is for the talented cast who work their cotton socks off to bring this ultimately rather dreary journey to a successful conclusion. TICKETS: 020 7258 William Russell 19 October. The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH to 28 October 2018.