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Misery

Review

Believable picture of obsession

Remind me never to get on the wrong side of Jeanette Broad. Yes, yes, I know she is only acting, but she does so with frightening conviction in Simon Moore's adaptation of a Stephen King novel.

From the moment she appears on stage in HumDrum AmDram's production, Ms Broad's body language screams 'obsessive'.

The way she later holds her face half-menacingly, half-lovingly to her victim's, and then heaps mental and physical humiliation on him, is psychologically adroit.

The victim is the character's novelist hero, whom she has found in his crashed car and taken home.

Peter Colley plays him with a neat mix of fear, terrible pain and a touch of humour.

But although Sam Sampson's direction makes light of the lack of mobility inherent in the script, it is itself spun out a little too freely.

Thrillers, by and large, need to be shorter and tauter for maximum effect.

Mike Allen - The News