Bent

Bent, Trafalgar Studios, 2006 

Cast: Alan Cuming, Kevin Trainor, Benjamin Wilkin, Charles Mayer, Richard Bremmer, Hugh Ross, Matthew Spencer, Chris New, Ricky Champ, Laurence Spellman

Writer: Martin Sherman

Director: Daniel Kramer

I remembered this as a two-hander between Alan Cuming and Chris New (who was later so good in the film Weekend) but there was a lot more cast than that. I wonder what they did? There's a song in the play and apparently each production gets someone new to work on it and this time it was Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys. Astonishingly it doesn't seem to exist online.

The programme has five two page articles about Germany and WW2 which relate to the production, although I only got through three of them this time - the other two felt too much. When I started the first I thought the quote it began with was familiar but it turns out the whole thing was also used in the programme for Cabaret with Will Young. I don't suppose there's any reason why they shouldn't do that but I guess I'd just not though of it before now.