Find out what the critics had to say about Roger Allam’s performance as Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard at the Cottesloe Theatre…
The performances from this able cast are a credit to Nunn’s full blown directorial skill.
Roger Allam’s Lopakhin has a poignant fastidiousness, using a tea service’s sugar cubes to map out one solution toward saving the very estate that he will later buy.
Roger Allam, an actor I have always admired, is simply wrong for Lopakhin, too smooth and genteel, unable to show the clumsy peasant beneath his newly prosperous exterior.
– Theatre Guide London, Winter 2000
Class is also the key to Roger Allam’s excellent Lopakhin…