15-05-2025
The Deep Blue Sea review — Tamsin Greig is terrific, but often inaudible
There are great things in Terence Rattigan's masterpiece about a woman in postwar London who leaves her husband for an unsuitable but exciting ex-RAF man. I just wish we could hear them better.
This revival, much praised at the tiny Ustinov theatre in Bath, has virtues aplenty but it hasn't scaled up fully now it is in the grander Theatre Royal Haymarket. So sometimes you think Tamsin Greig is giving a wondrous central turn as a woman paying a stiff price for pursuing passion. And sometimes you long for her to speak up a bit.
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Even in row G of the stalls I was struggling to catch everything, especially for the first of the three acts,
