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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

American Classic review – I defy you not to fall in love with Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s tender comedy

American Classic, from left: Elise Kibler as Nadia Romanova, Laura Linney as Kristen Forrest-Bean, Kevin Kline as Richard Bean, Billy Carter as Connor Boyle.
Read the room … American Classic, from left: Elise Kibler as Nadia Romanova, Laura Linney as Kristen Forrest-Bean, Kevin Kline as Richard Bean, Billy Carter as Connor Boyle. Photograph: David Giesbrecht/MGM+

Ah, the roar of the greasepaint – the smell of the crowd! Who doesn’t love the theatre? Or at least the idea of the theatre. Not the fact of the theatre – spending a fortune on a ticket, getting dressed up and going into town, either hungry or with too early a dinner inside you, trying to suspend enough disbelief to engage with Actors doing Big Acting in front of you when you’re too used to Small Acting watched from the sofa in front of a streaming platform. Then home too late to recover properly before bed.

It’s not just me. I know it isn’t.

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