"Ah well, you did your best and it wasnae very good... And that's a fair epitaph for
most of us." Obscure mid-20th century plays really are delivering the best lines at
the moment, this one courtesy of the Finborough's current alternate show, James
Bridie's
Dr Angelus. Set in 1920 and inspired by a true crime story, it
follows recently-qualified Dr George Johnson (Alex Bhat,) who's moved to Glasgow to
take a too-good-to-be-true partnership with the eccentric Dr Angelus (David
Rintoul.) His gratitude and respect for the older man let him overlook some
suspicious behaviour - like the fact that his heavily-insured mother-in-law only
gets sicker the more Angelus treats her, and when she finally dies he insists
Johnson sign the death certificate. George keeps his silence even when Angelus' wife
(Vivien Heilbron) starts exhibiting the same symptoms her mother did.
