Fiona Coffey in A Touch of Mrs Robinson A Touch of Mrs Robinson
Greenside @Infirmary street
16 August 2017
4 Stars
Currently packing them in at this venue is this stylish cabaret hour featuring cinema's most famous cougar, Mrs Robinson of The Graduate fame. Performer Fiona Coffey talks about the character and attempts, through songs, to find out what made her the woman we encounter in the film, taking us 'behind the cougar'.
It's a gorgeous swinging Sixties set list, and musicians Michael Roulston and Jonathan Kitching complete an effective trio, the interaction between them allows Mrs Robinson to be dominant in places. A healthy mixture of jazz and pop classics such as Step Inside Love, are smoothly performed, and the show is quietly subversive in showing attitudes toward women in that Era, making you reconsider your attitude towards Mrs Robinson.
There is some fun audience participation, and although the cougar could have been more strongly unleashed in places, this is a soothing gem of an hour, very well performed.
Until 26 August 2017
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Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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