A misfiring show to add to Spacey's catalogue of Old Vic blanks; First Night RESURRECTION BLUES Old Vic LONDON.(News)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: March 3, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Paul Taylor

It's been a hectic week on the Arthur Miller front. In a revival of Two-Way Mirror at the Courtyard, Abi Titmuss lost her West End theatre virginity. In Stratford, the RSC unveiled a superb staging of The Crucible. And now at the Old Vic, there is the European premiere of Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, in a celebrity-studded production by the American filmmaker Robert Altman.

This may sound (even to goggle-eyed Titmuss-watchers) like an ascending order of importance. But the key event of this mini-Miller fest is incontrovertibly the ...