A Few Good Men - Several of the American stars who have swaggered on to the West End in recent months have been Beta minus fare at best. Not Rob Lowe of The West Wing fame. As the sarcastic US Navy lawyer in Aaron Sorkin's court-martial drama, he is handsome, quirky, feline but most of all completely believable. After a downmarket summer the Theatre Royal Haymarket has a hit. This is a quick, shiny production with much soldierly shouting, slamming metal cages, overhead helicopters and action which merges into one another. Actors exit through the incoming scene and often talk over one another. Pace, pace, pace!.
The Daily Mail It is a dramatic, witty and thought-provoking piece of popular entertainment at its best... The scenes are short, sharp and powerful, and the climactic court martial, with the denouement trembling in the balance to the bitter end, is handled with great aplomb. But the play proves thought provoking as well as hugely entertaining. David Esbjornson directs a slick, fast-moving production, starkly and atmospherically designed by Michael Pevelka. Rob Lowe, one of the stars of Sorkin's The West Wing, is excellent as the young looking, baseball-fixated rookie lawyer... There's strong support too from John Barrowman and Suranne Jones.
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