Hangover Square meets in Room 8

Hangover Square is a performance sans actor -- a tape (spoken by Ashley Cook, currently playing in The Mousetrap, St. Martin's Theatre) ghostly reads out short bits from the book by Patrick Hamilton. The audience are invited upstairs to cheap hotel bedroom, re-creating the scene from “a memorable, pivotal section set in Brighton.”

The room is replete with tiny icons from the late 30’s, e. g. razor on the basin and bed-side table, all too familiar to anyone who as inhabited such bed-sits in Brighton now. We sat where we could (on the bed, on the only two chairs provided or stood) listening to the words. . . . .

After the words, brief chatting with the usher about the genre and alcoholism and we went downstairs.

It would help to have read the book beforehand, of course.

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