Inadmissible Evidence

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Douglas Hodge delivers an utterly mesmerizing performance in Jamie Lloyd's revival of John Osborne's 1964 play, Inadmissible Evidence, at the Donmar Warehouse. His physically and emotionally rich work here is an astonishing exercise in stage acting.

Hodge plays Bill Maitland, a washed-up London solicitor; popping pills like candy and taking regular swigs from a whisky bottle; he is a man acutely aware of his own "irredeemable mediocrity" and constantly frightened that he's about to be found out. The angry young man is now in middle age, and his rage is tempered with an increasing sense of anguish and despair as well as a measure of self-knowledge.

The play opens with a disorientating se[...]