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Article: Reviews: Spellbinding pair MISERY Swan Theatre Amateur Company, Swan Theatre, Worcester
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- February 22, 2007
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BRIAN Burton's superb production is built around an electrifying
performance by Julie Nunn as a mad woman whose favourite author falls
into her hands when he is injured in a car accident near her isolated
home in the mountains of Colorado.
She's a former nurse with a history of patients who have died and
it takes no time at all for us to grasp what might be in store for
author Paul Sheldon when he is bedbound and she is in charge of his
drugs and demanding that he writes another book.
This is the Stephen King novel, adapted by Simon Moore and brought
spellbindingly to life by two faultless performances.
Keith Thompson, excellent as the terrified writer, offers a fine
study ...