REVIEW
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Grand Opera House
Belfast
IT WAS always going to be difficult to follow Audrey Hepburn and the film version of this Truman Capote story of Holly Golightly (Georgia May Foote), a wayward young girl looking for meaning in her life.
Rich old men are her delight but they don’t satisfy her; she’s unable to make relationships and relates everything back to her beloved brother Fred. But he has disappeared out of her life and it’s only when a young writer takes a flat beside her that Holly begins to find friendship. She calls him Fred. But she can’t settle and it doesn’t work out.
No does this production. Talking to people afterwards the feeling was that this is more a radio play. Apart from the doors of the flats across the stage and the big fire escape against the Manhattan skyline, there’s little to fill the stage, which seems huge.
Sometimes the dialogue was lost, such was the speed of delivery and although Fred (Matt Barber) spoke directly to us at times to keep us up to date with his love of Holly, it was difficult to feel sympathy for the characters.
However, it was easy to feel for Holly’s husband Dock (Robert Calvert) who appears looking for the little teenage wife who ran away. He was convincing in his sadness. The other notable performance was Bob, the large white cat. The audience reacted more to Bob than to anyone.
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