Tamzin Outhwaite’s Bev is Madame Bovary with a Cinzano
6 / 10
Her performance, and Fall’s production as a whole, proves that this period comedy of manners is eternally resonant. That is partly down to the genius of the play but Fall adds an ingenious tweak in the suggestion that Tony and Ange are of “Pakistani” origin. This transforms its meanings in a subtle but deft way: the area, we hear, is being taken over by different kinds of people and you imagine this not only being a comment on working-class mobility but racial diversity here in the “white flight” heartland of Essex. Outside Bev’s doorstep, it could be Reform Britain.
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