The playwright Samuel Adamson and director Sean Mathias have conspired to reimagine the Manhattan adventures of the eternally flighty Holly Golightly – “top banana in the shock department”, wild child turned child bride turned runaway bride, call girl-about- town and gangster’s moll – and render them, well, rather dull.
It’s not Anna Friel’s fault. As our fly-by-night heroine, the elfin actress is, in Holly’s own assessment, “infectious”. Gorgeously gamine and wrapped, like a treat from Tiffany’s, in an array of ever more extravagant cocktail dresses, she’s a bewitching presence, at once perilously provocative and child-like.
The action, though, runs as little more than a series of flimsy vignettes – Holly gazing moonily through Tiffany’s plate glass window; Holly crooning prettily with her guitar on the fire escape; Holly swilling martinis at a cocktail party; and Holly stripping off, just about as often as the story allows it.

To 9 Jan, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1 (0845 481 1870)

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