Present Laughter

Present Laughter, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 2016.

Cast: Daisy Boulton, Sally Tatum, Martin Hancock, Phyllis Logan, Samuel West, Rebecca Johnson, Patrick Walshe McBride, Toby Longworth, Jason Morell, Zoe Boyle, Elizabeth Holland.

Writer: Noel Coward

Director: Stephen Unwin

I liked this a lot. It's a funny play about an actor being self-obsessed and slightly awful, which is always a fun thing to watch, and Samuel West is just excellent. More recently Andrew Scott did it at The Old Vic although I only got to see the filmed version and I loved that too. Perhaps that means this is my favourite Noel Coward play (although I doubt I've seen more than three or four, which is a very small proportion of his work).