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A Voyage Round My Father on tour – review

A Voyage Round My Father | Theatre Review

Former Artistic Director of The National Theatre, Richard Eyre directs an all-star cast in the new Robert Fox, Jonathon Church Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath production of John Mortimer's autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father, with Rupert Everett bringing poignancy and humour to the title role of this deeply sentimental and nostalgic family drama and adding his own brand of charisma to a role earlier embodied by Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier, and more recently Derek Jacobi in the 2006 Donmar Warehouse revival. Opening at Theatre Royal Bath ahead of a UK tour, it's a joy to see the audiences connect with what is Mortimer's most revealing and arguably most important work. Although the backdrop might be said to capture a lost England, the relationship between child and parent are just as relevant today. Encompassing how a young man perceives his parent throughout childhood and adulthood, craving approval which, when withheld, turns to bitterness and pent-up rage, J

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