Alex Mugnaioni is a towering but handsome Jim, whose passion for the same girl is cooled by his dodgy ticker. Samuel Collings is a donnish German idealist as Jules, who finds Kath first. Both men soon fall in love with Kath, a Parisian artiste. He meets a similarly dreamy Frenchman, Jim, in a bookshop. Stella Powell-Jones's effervescent production opens with Jules, a German-Jewish expat, in search of the ideal woman in 1907 Paris. But it being set in France, they are required to philosophise about it, too. The story is best known from Francois Truffaut's 1962 film about two Belle Epoque buddies, bonking their way through the early 20th century. Only in this case, they are fictional bohemians pioneering free love.
Timberlake Wertenbaker's hearty stage adaptation of Henri-Pierre Roché's novel Jules et Jim is a no less enjoyable hymn to historical pace-setters.
But he's perfectly cast in Amit Sharma's immaculate production pitching holy virtue against infernal intrigue. Jeremiah will play more complex characters. Still, Ivanno Jeremiah, as Poitier, oozes the cool charisma necessary to maintain interest in the role of a good and virtuous man.
Ian Bonar, as the nerdy Bobby, also has to pull off some fancy footwork to land Sidney in his new movie and bills himself as 'the blackest white guy you know'. Some of the play's best riffing is between the two execs, fighting over who's boss. 'The horns on my head hold up my halo,' he grins. The most interesting character is therefore the Devil, in the form of Daniel Lapaine's mischievous Parks. Cameron never doubts Poitier's integrity - and nor do we. But the real fun of Cameron's 90-minute examination of conscience is the dialogue, packing the cussive intensity of David Mamet at his best.Īt one point, the tricky, manipulative Parks boasts: 'If I were any more broadminded, my brain would fall out.'Īnd yet for all the great lines, glittering like gems in a designer dung heap, the obvious agenda of canonising Poitier weakens the play as drama. We find ourselves in the 1950s office of Hollywood king-maker Mr Parks, where the young actor is due to sign a contract that will make him a megastar
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