All About Eve - 2019 - 7/10
Theatre junkies, column right!
During the Covid lockdown, the National Theatre began limited airing of stage classics.
Besotted fan Eve attends every performance of the great Margo.
Eve is spotted once and is invited backstage.
Where she begins to ingratiate herself, make herself useful. Indispensable.
Until the bud of ambition begins to swell.
Tart observation of the world of theatre. Drama. The boards.
Rivalries, buried misdeeds, petty tongues, the elbow of self-advancement.
Production use of a super-screen to show secondary events is disconcerting initially, but one gets accustomed to it.
Stellar acting from all in bile bitter journey.