Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

The Westmorland Gazette (11Jan01): First team make a reviewers job easy. Staging Lord Arthur Saville's Crime as part of the Old Laundry annual bash of entertainment gems the cast once more rose to the occasion. As the aristocratic hero Lord Saville, Andrew Barrow's performance was bordering on an Olivier Award, as was Neil Metcalfe's, as Baines the butler. Having said that, the whole ten-strong team grasped the Constance Cox script, based on an Oscar Wilde, short story, by the scruff of the neck and lifted it into the realms of the memorable. Judith Notley swept in as a suitably named Lady Windermere and Kerry Willison-Parry was sharp and acerbic as Lady Julia. Although it was wonderfully witty, it occasionally bordered on farce. However that didn't detract from the superb timing and magnificent delivery of all the cast. 5