Review: Letter to Larry at the Jermyn Street Theatre

Letter to Larry

Jermyn Street Theatre

Reviewed on Tuesday 4th August 2015

★★

The year is 1960. Vivien Leigh is starring in Duel of Angels at New York City's Helen Hayes Theatre, and in a fitful state retires to her dressing room to confront the long postponed task of responding to a letter from her beloved Laurence Olivier, expressing to her his desire for divorce. This is the situation that playwright Donald Macdonald uses to conjure a portrait of the tortured actress, projecting herself backwards and forwards in time, reliving her triumphs and tribulations with the undulating emotions of a raft tossed on the sea. Under the guise of actress Susie Lindeman, we are asked to scrutinise Leigh, and find the pain behind the obsessive relationship with Olivier and her own insecurities, both professional and personal. 

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Chiming with the new Vivien archive at the V&A, and following the centenary year of Vivien Leigh’s birth, the Vivien season at the BFI and the Starring Vivien Leigh exhibition at the NPG, VIVIEN: Letter To Larry brings Vivien back into the heart of the West End.