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Filumena review: The good life? Felicity lives la dolce vita in this Italian romcom, writes PATRICK MARMION

PATRICK MARMION: Felicity Kendal has a theatrical gift which keeps on giving. Age has not withered nor custom staled her infinite variety.

She positively glows in the title role in Sean Mathias's charming revival of Eduardo de Filippo's 1946 Neapolitan romcom, about a former prostitute and her lifelong love affair with wealthy man-about-town Domenico (Matthew Kelly). Warchus is one of the top directors in British theatre, and the play stars one of the finest stage actors of our day, Mark Rylance, alongside the estimable J. Smith-Cameron, Logan Roy's long-suffering legal advisor Gerri Kellman in TV hit Succession. Suzanne Heathcote's approach is simple and effective, making a memory play of Kazuo Ishiguro's unsettling tale of a world in which the sick rich are routinely provided with healthy organs harvested from clones.

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