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Humble Boy: 26.06.02
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Humble Boy: re-cast but still a play of rare wit and intelligence
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Humble Boy (Gielgud)
Now entirely re-cast, Charlotte Jones's subtle and insinuating comedy about a dominating mother and the adult son who returns home for his father's funeral remains a play of rare wit and intelligence.


Maria Aitken gloriously restores some of the brittleness and haughty but faded glamour that Diana Rigg originally brought to the role of the mother at the National before Felicity Kendal took over in the West End, while Adrian Scarborough replaces Simon Russell Beale as the son tiptoeing gingerly through his emotional life.

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