Following a well-received Edinburgh run in 2014, Liam Borrett's
This is
Living gets re-written as a two-act play for its London premiere, and what I
consider very exciting TV-to-stage casting: Never mind your
Downton escapees
who get the papers het up, Michael Socha is a better actor than he gets credit for,
awkwardly sexy and a core
Being Human cast member to add to the collection to
boot. He plays Michael, who at the start of the play is trying to get a difficult
message across to his wife Alice (Tamla Kari.) Namely that she's dead, having
drowned the previous day while trying to get their 3-year-old daughter out of a
river when she fell in. The child is making a good recovery in hospital but the
ambulance was too late for Alice, and every time he sleeps between her death and her
funeral, Michael dreams that he's reunited with his wife as she waits to pass on to
whatever's next.
