Lacking subtlety: Annice Boparai, Ellie Turner in Noor
(Picture: Ikin Yum/ Southwark Playhousee)The extraordinary wartime heroism of Noor Inayat Khan, the young British Muslim woman who ran radio communications in occupied Paris and was murdered in Dachau, deserves better treatment than this thin, simplistic play by Azma Dar.
At 105 minutes it manages to be both skimpy and ponderous. The dialogue is full of melodrama and bathos, the acting mostly poor. The only things that hold the attention are the spirited though far-from subtle central performance of Annice Boparai as Khan, and the astonishing facts that glint through the waffly fiction.
