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Jo Neary, Upstairs At Three And Ten, Brighton, Apr 26
Morphing easily from a
dour Irish woman
joylessly celebrating the
benefits of laughter to an
Eastern European,
celebrity-obsessed
dolphin, Jo Neary's
talents as a comic actress
were indisputable.
In just a flick of her hair
or roll of an eye she
captured a character and
hinted tantalisingly at
the layers beneath.
She has a particularly
good eye for portraying
typically English nuances
- as seen in the farcically
nervous woman giving a
talk on sex aids and the
barely repressed
histrionics of her Brief
Encounter-inspired Celia
Johnson.
It was when she played
herself that she came
unstuck. Stripped of the
wigs and scripts, Neary
attempted to "smash
down the fourth wall" by
bumbling sweetly but
ineptly through some
anecdotes about her life.
But her clumsy, skittish
manner left her looking
eerily like one of her own
flawed characters.
12:09pm Monday 28th April 2008
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