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If you attend one family wedding this summer, make it Beth Steel's rich, raucous bash, in Till The Stars Come Down - says Georgina Brown
Each of Steel's characters nurses a secret sadness. Sinead Matthews' bride-to-be is subdued. Back in the Eighties, her miner dad crossed a picket line, triggering a 40-year feud with his brother.
Calm before the storm: Drink flows, and it will come to blows, at Marek and Sylvia's wedding reception, in Till The Stars Come Down at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket Even Auntie Carol (Dorothy Atkinson, of Call The Midwife and The Gold), their dead mum’s best friend, and a woman with an outrageous, unfiltered opinion about everything, has a bleeding heart. Director Bijan Sheibani’s superbly performed production, originally staged in the round at the National, feels confined and constrained by the Theatre Royal’s proscenium arch until the second half when everyone is loaded and legless and the torrent of pent-up resentment, rivalries, bitterness, bigotry and disappointment overflows.
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