W for Banker
New End, London
March 23-April 18
Authors/producers: John Steinberg, Ray Kilby
Director: Ray Kilby
Cast: Ben Nathan, Charlotte Pyke, Pandora Clifford
Running time: 1hr 20mins
lingerie wholesalePerhaps more farces will be churned out starring bankers - though, following the last few months, I'm sure politicians will still be the whipping boys of choice in this particular genre.
Setting its stall out from the moment you walk in - big, brash, unflattering headlines about the money men dominate the set - this is an unsubtle bedroom farce with too few laughs to justify calling it a "credit crunch comedy".
replica hublot watchesIt also has little to do with the world of corporate greed and more to do with an exbanker's problems juggling a mistress and a wife.
Laddish Johnny Nicholas (Ben Nathan) is still trying to keep Lenka (Charlotte Pyke) a secret from his estranged wife (Pandora Clifford), who is up for a reconciliation - even though he's down to his last couple of million.
But Lenka is much more than a pretty face and hatches a scheme with Johnny to make a killing betting on currencies, which he is a little too eager to jump into.
With not enough substance, longueurs aplenty and a predictable ending, this is pretty weak fare only enlivened by some competent acting, while the ridiculously short second half seems more a cynical ploy to boost bar takings at the replica breitling watches interval.
Jonathan Lovett
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