Molly was then presented at the Arts Theatre Cambridge from the 25th-30th September 1978, befor etransferring to the Comedy Theatre, London on 25th October 1978, with the following cast:
"...exceedingly good and compelling theatre made by its study of the obsessed, independent and sometimes child-like woman that Billia Whitelaw impersonates to the last comma: a varied emotional study as satisfying as anything in London."
J. C. Trewin, Birmingham Post, October 27th, 1978
From the New Statesman review:
“[I]t is Mr Gray’s version of the Rattenbury myth [rather than Rattigan’s Cause Celebre] that repays the more careful examination. Notice, as a tiny example, how the newly-hired Oliver persistently calls Molly ‘miss’, though she is married, and Eve’s ‘missus’, though she isn’t. Or observe the way Molly describes the boy when he’s frantically denying snitching her fags. He is, she says, ‘honking’ like a goose, a word that recurs again and again after she has seduced him and he is waiting in jittery expectation of her in the car outside. He honks and honk and honks, and the repetition makes a good metaphor for that callow but unstoppable sexuality, that farmyard hunger of his. But then the play is full of suggestive symbolism: a vision of seal pups being flayed alive, another of a wounded rabbit strung up by its legs and left to be worried to death by dogs. It has a resonance that makes Rattigan’s timbre sound just a little wolly.
Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman, November 3rd 1978
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