Any venue in the world would surely have snapped him up, so immense credit to the man for choosing to head back to York, giving a precious fillip of publicity and income to regional theatre in these perilously straitened times.
Gary Oldman in Krapp’s Last Tape at York Theatre Royal. Credit: Gisele Schmidt. Provided by kate@katemorleypr.com
Onto a set piled high with boxes and clutter, Krapp emerges wheezing in true Jackson Lamb-style, Newman’s ramshackle lead character in the hit Apple TV series Slow Horses. He sits at a long wooden table and proceeds to peel a banana; in fact, a good ten per cent of the 50-minute running time is taken up by Oldman silently, yet charismatically, eating fruit.
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The 39-year-old Krapp recounts the end of a love affair and we join the older man in rueful reflection about how our younger selves could be so cavalier when it came to opportunity and happiness, erroneously expecting that there would be an endless supply of both commodities. ‘Perhaps my best years are gone,’ he says bleakly, as part of the new offering.
Exciting as it is to have Oldman back on stage, this is an inescapably under-optimum choice of work and I suspect that a great many audience members will have to engage in some diligent post-show research to try to make sense of what they have just seen.
To 17 May (01904 623568, yorktheatreroyal.co.uk)
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