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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

The Way Old Friends Do review – super troupers shine in a fun, frothy comedy

The actors pose in nylon Abba costumes, all in drag (men with wigs and makeup, women with beards)
Buoyant watchability … (l-r) Donna Berlin, Rose Shalloo, Ian Hallard, James Bradshaw and Sara Crowe in The Way Old Friends Do. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Abba superfans might recognise this drama’s titular nod to one of the band’s lesser-known songs, but Ian Hallard’s fun, frothy comedy is as much about complicated friendship between gay men of a certain age as it is an ode to the pop group.

And what bigger superfan than Peter (also played by Hallard), a middle-aged former librarian who has worshipped the Swedish band since boyhood? He gets sucked into amateur dramatics through a coincidental reunion with a former school friend, Edward (James Bradshaw).

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