Smaller

Smaller, Lyric Theatre, 2006

Cast: Dawn French, Alison Moyet, June Watson

Writer: Carmel Morgan

Director: Kathy Burke

I tagged along to this with some friends who'd booked tickets, something I don't think I'd do now. Inevitably I remember nothing about it. There are songs listed in the programme but I wouldn't have confidently said I remembered that. At that point I'd seen Alison Moyet live twice but not Dawn French - she'd probably only done French & Saunders stuff which would have been impossible to get tickets for. I've seen her twice since in one woman shows. This was the writers first, and it turns out so far, only play, apparently commissioned by Dawn. With Kathy Burke directing I do wonder if it was a slight waste of everyone's talent and maybe they could have found something else to do that would have been more memorable.