Cause Celebre

 

Cause Celebre, The Old Vic, 2011.

Cast: Lucy Black, Timothy Carlton, Simon Chandler, Richard Clifford, Oliver Coppersmith, Niamh Cusack, Anne-Marie Duff, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Freddie Fox, Jenny Galloway, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Jones, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Robinson, Tristan Shepherd, Richard Teverson, Sarah Waddell, Michael Webber, Tristram Wymark.

Writer: Terence Rattigan

Director: Thea Sharrock

I assume I went to this partly to see Anne-Marie Duff but also because Rattigan was having a bit of a moment (Flare Path was on in London that summer too) but without rereading the programme I'd have remembered nothing about the play.

What I do remember, far too vividly because that's how these things work, is that the singer Tracey Thorn asked for people's opinions on it on Twitter as she was thinking of going. I think I replied that the second half was stronger than the first and I enjoyed it. She hated it and stupidly I felt in some way responsible.