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- Omid Djalili is The Infidel
- Dean Lennox Kelly stars in Married, Single, Other...
- Tariq Jordan makes his feature debut
- Doreen Mantle to play Isabella Rossellini's mother in Late Bloomers
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Great reviews for Tim McMullan in The Misanthrope with Keira Knightley
Tim McMullan is currently appearing in The Misanthrope, which will play at the Comedy Theatre until 13 March 2010. Thea Sharrock, who is using Martin Crimp's contemporary adaptation of the play, directs, with Damien Lewis taking the misanthropic role of Alceste and Keira Knightley the woman in whom he meets his match, Jennifer. Tim plays Covington, a critic who aspires to be a playwright in Martin Crimp's version, and he has received some glowing personal mentions in the reviews...
"Tim McMullan plays a beastly critic called Covington. Critics shouldn't enjoy portrayals of critics on stage too much - it only adds to our self-importance. But McMullan is a treat, a monstrous slimeball of preening vanity in a double-breasted blazer with silk hankie and distinctive tasselled loafers the colour of baby poo." Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times, 20.21.09
"There is also a delicious cameo from Tim McMullan as a drama critic named Covington- can't think where Crimp got the name from - who has aspirations to be a playwright. With a manner that is alternately vain, smarmy and blustering and a Wildean belief that criticism is itself an art, McMullan offers a wickedly funny caricature of us hacks at our worst." Michael Billington, The Guardian, 18.12.09
"In a uniformly excellent cast, Tim McMullan is hilariously funny as a theatre critic who is trying to promote the script of his abject play. This figure's throwback idea of trendiness (jeans and double-breasted blazer) and his woefully misguided celebrity-seeking-missile manner suggest that McMullan has been doing inspired research..." Paul Taylor, The Independent, 18.12.09
"Tim McMullan...is a comic maestro." Quentin Letts, Daily Mail, 18.12.09
"...and there is especially fine support from Tim McMullan as the vain, vile critic..." Charles Spencer, The Telegraph, 18.12.09
"...the critic mischievously called Covington and played with oleaginous pomposity by Tim McMullan..." Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 18.12.09