REVIEW: Gerry and Sewell

REVIEW: Gerry and Sewell

Rating: 3 out of 5. “Tragicomic social realism captured by the beautiful game entwined with the Tyne” Naturally, this isn’t actually a play about football at all. A season ticket to Newcastle United is merely the mechanism to show our two protagonists struggle through the bleak reality of being Geordie.  Gerry (played by Dean Logan) and his best mate Sewell (played by Jack Robertson) are the perfect counterfoils for each other in this tale that …

Gerry & Sewell ★★

Gerry and Sewell is the most recent iteration of Olivier Award-winning producer Jamie Eastlake’s latest project as writer and director – an adaptation of Purely Belter, a movie from the year 2000, itself an adaptation of Jonathan Tulloch’s novel Season Ticket. Under Eastlake, the show has unbelievably morphed from a pub-theatre-scale two-hander into a fully realised West End spectacle, complete with a moving on-set train and caravan, a seemingly…