A couple of cases of third time lucky at Trafalgar Studio 1 at the moment: After the
vanity projects from
Zach Braff and
Matthew Perry, a third US star comes to London
to write and star in his own play - but actually seems to be doing so on merit this
time; and with the Stark family
heir and
bastard acquitting themselves poorly at
theatres just up the road, it's left to the adopted son of that
Game of
Thrones clan to give a decent stage performance. This time the American
actor/playwright is Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Ben in
The Spoils. Among the
character types that appear frequently in American plays and films is a - usually
well-off - New Yorker whose neuroses manifest themselves in a bitterly sarcastic
misanthropy and self-destructive streak. Ben is that character turned up to eleven.
