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Playing With Trains

By Stephen Poliakoff

RSC

The Pit, Barbican Centre, London, 10th November 1989


Roxanna
Lesley Sharp
Danny
Simon Russell Beale
Frances
Lesley Dunlop
Bill
Michael Pennington
Mick
Mark Lewis Jones
Vernon Boyce
Robert Demeger
Gant
Ralph Fiennes
The QC
William Chubb
The Judge
Robert Demeger
Director
Ron Daniels
Designer
Kit Surrey
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Pennington’s very fine, wolf-like, keep-fit performance also describes the tragedy of a man who cannot open his mouth without preaching a false gospel and sounding like a crazy quack.

-The Financial Times


...Michael Pennington also plays Bill with just the right mix of enthusiasm for ideas and impatience with people...it is a performance that suggests Mr Pennington is moving fruitfully from classical heroes towards eccentric character-studies.

-The Guardian