Breakfast at Tiffany's

Not convinced. and not just because it wasn't like the book/film etc but because purely as a piece of theatre taken in isolation from its previous incarnations, the theatrical adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's was interminably dull - certainly the first half at least. The clothes aren't even enough to entertain (as one might have thought having seen the fashion show Anna Friel puts on every night when she leaves the theatre). The central issue of Holly's promiscuous/phony/prostitute status was not enough to hold my interest for the full hour of the first act, I think maybe because beautiful as i think Anna Friel is, i found her portrayal of Holly rather charmless and, that being the key to one's interest in her, not being utterly entranced by her leaves you stranded in the middle of don't-give-a-monkey'sville in terms of plot, which is otherwise somewhat negligible until the interval. the second half was much pacier, admittedly, with the denouement of her past, the arrest etc, however it wasn't enough to redeem the production overall. shame. stick with reading the book or watching the film, I'd say.