I’ll Be Seeing You (Festival Theatre, Pitlochry)
What is more extraordinary: the esteemed and subtle classical actor Sir Simon Russell Beale playing the great and flashy Las Vegas piano-playing showman Liberace?
Or the fact that Russell Beale (SRB to his admirers) is back on stage after pulling out of a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Titus Andronicus after a shock diagnosis of colon cancer just 12 months ago?
All things considered, the 65-year-old looks hale and even hearty.
The same, alas, cannot be said of the creaky new play in which he finds himself entombed.
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