Collins's remarkable stage debut had the audience holding its breath in reverential concentration
Collins's remarkable stage debut had the audience holding its breath in reverential concentration, makes her stage debut in Bess Wohl’s grippingly classy two-hander about an American woman on a “bachelorette weekend” in Spain. These are among the best 90 minutes of theatre I have seen all year and the applause at the play’s end went on for so long that Collins began to look bashfully embarrassed.
With her trailing blonde hair and sparkly silver jumpsuit – Irene is another fashionable American in Europe – she stumbles into the “star Álvaro Morte), whom she has met in a bar. Irene is playful, skittish and drunk and Manuel – or Manolo, as she keeps calling him – is keen to move things into the bedroom.
This is a remarkable stage debut from Collins, conveying a fascinating blend of interlayered weakness and strength. Irene’s giddy gabbling cover – ever less expertly – deep whirlpools of uncertainty and Morte’s Manuel becomes impatient with the lies she is so obviously telling herself. Yet the self-deception is by no means all one way and the suave Spaniard is edged into a reckoning with his own past.works splendidly because every element is akin to peeling the layers of a very large onion.
It’s rare that a play induces in its audience a reverential hush of concentration, with several hundred spectators seeming to sit without the slightest shuffling and hold their breath anxiously as the drama unfolds. This is the special sort of thrill that only live theatre can offer and Barcelona does so triumphantly.
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