Inadmissible Evidence | Review by Peter Kemp
In the following review, Kemp comments on the “self-testimony” and “special pleading for a character who seems his author’s alter ego.” He praises several of the cast but finds that Inadmissible Evidence is a “solo turn.”
Di Trevis’s production of Inadmissible Evidence makes one notable addition to the play; a closing tableau in which most of the cast are seen sitting in a jury-box and staring accusingly at the protagonist, Bill Maitland. While in keeping with the judicial atmosphere of the work—which opens with a fantasy courtroom sequence and spotlights the personal and professional trials of a solicitor— it’s an incorporation that is not altogether judicious. For, as the rest of the evening has exhibited, Inadmissible Evidence is a play that puts a man in the dock, only to let him...
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