From Marilyn Monroe to Rambo, the extraordinarily illuminating story of double Oscar-winning cinematographer Jack Cardiff's film career followed by an Alzheimer's-stricken retirement in Buckinghamshire is played by the always incandescent and forever our very own Nottingham Clarendon College alumnus Robert Lindsay.
In his converted garage bursting with memorabilia of a filmography that includes The Red Shoes, The African Queen and The Prince And The Showgirl, together with mementos of his secret romances with legendary movie goddesses, Jack is writing his autobiography whilst grappling with his declining health and the assistance/hindrance of his son Mason, a boho Tara Fitzgerald as his wife Nicky and his newly appointed carer Lucy, played by a fantastically convincing and versatile fellow Nottingham Clarendon College graduate Victoria Blunt.
But this is Robert Lindsay's show and it's a super-stellar performance of the heartwrenching confusion and darkness of Alzheimer's punctuated with moments of that familiar twinkling humour, laughs, song, dance and a bit of fisticuffs from our local neighbourhood sexy sexagenarian. Robert Lindsay ages and rejuvenates remarkably by decades in front of your very eyes, brilliantly mixing pathos with verve and animation and effing and blinding and wooing for Blighty, with a camera and a dirty martini in each hand.
A touching and intimate first act explodes into life after the interval with lighting tricks, techniques and sweeping cinematic flourishes flooding the stage, invoking intoxicating Golden Age Hollywood glamour, with fabulously romantic flashbacks and special movie legend guest stars and confidentially, we recommend you lighten up these descendingly gloomy October evenings not through a glass, darkly, but through a glorious technicolor kaleidoscopic stunning spectrum of light and emotions with this precious multi-faceted gem of a play. Shine on.
Prism is at Nottingham Theatre Royal until Saturday 26 October 2019 Full details and ticket prices can be found on the Nottingham Theatre Royal website
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