WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER opens at Trafalgar Studios

Blanche McIntyre’s production of WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER has opened at the Trafalgar Studios, in the first revival of Christopher Hampton’s play written when he was 18, with a cast featuring Harry Melling, Sam Swainsbury and Abigail Cruttenden.

Director Blanche McIntyre has teased the very best from her young cast, and gives the play the unfussy, faithful revival it richly deserves.

Melling is ably supported by Sam Swainsbury as his socially superior roommate.
Whatsonstage

...this strong revival by Blanche McIntyre.

Maybe these are just the gap-year blues, but you’ve never heard them sung like this.

[Melling’s] easy interplay with Swainsbury has the pugnacious air of a pair of public-school buddies.  And when the tone turns darker both men play it with the perfect soberness, not getting dragged under by the melodrama.
The Times

Under Blanche McIntyre’s direction [Melling’s] voice, movements and facial expressions are all spot on, casting a dark shade on his accomplished fellow cast members.
The Stage

Director Blanche McIntyre treats this like the period piece it is... McIntyre has found an actor up to the task of playing the self-pitying and dangerously manipulative Ian.
The Guardian

It plays in Studio 2 until 8th October.