Review: Oliver Reed: Wild Thing, Gilded Balloon, Teviot
Rob Crouch not only resembles, sounds, scares and excites as Oliver Reed. He’s so convincing you feel like sharing a whisky with him afterwards in a bid to get even closer to the man who treated the pub as his theatre.
Based on Reed’s autobiography, one of the play’s highlights is a scene that, in lesser hands, could slow up the show.
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Sit in the first couple of rows and you might even get a drink handed to you. But that shouldn’t be an enticement to pay tribute to one of cinema’s most rock-and-roll characters.
“Awe and respect are two different things,” Reed once said.
At this pub, you’ll find both.
Until August 27