This Christmas the RSC will be using a CGI projection to play Ariel in
The
Tempest, but if you can't wait that long to see a barely-humanoid homunculus on
stage there's always Pixie Lott's performance as Holly Golightly in
Breakfast at
Tiffany's. In a weird coincidence, Nikolai Foster's touring production sets down
in London for a few weeks at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, the same venue where a
completely different adaptation of Truman Capote's novella (starring Anna Friel,
like I just got home, Anna Friel) played only seven years ago. Without looking it
up, I remember that as being a decent commercial if not particularly critical
success, so I was a bit surprised to see it given another go with an untested "name"
in the lead (there seems to be quite the rotating cast of actresses sharing the role
for the regional dates, but just Lott for London.) An unnamed narrator whom Holly
nicknames "Fred" (Matt Barber) tells the story of how, while much of America was
focused on Europe and the Second World War, he moved to New York for the first time
to try and make it as a writer.
