South Bank, London
Director: Jeremy Sams
Designer: Robert Jones
Lighting Designer: Tim Mitchell
Sound Designers: Fergus O'Hare
Laughter springs from the sight of actors in Nothing On made tense by props that fail to behave properly. Christopher Benjamins's Selsdon Mowbray, a deafish, mildly senile old thespian, in thrall to the bottle, is an accident waiting to happen. But in Frayn's gloriously comic second scene, which enables the audience to watch Nothing On being performed from a backstage perspective, Selsdon is not the only disaster-prone performer. The on-stage passions run in contrast to the actors' off-stage sexual relations, not to mention Peter Egan's nicely caddish two-timing director.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=1232&dspl=reviews
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