ScotsGay Magazine

****

Edmund White's captivating new play depicts a fictional meeting between Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, during his final days, and writer Gore Vidal. Young actor Arthur Darvill, who looks and sounds like a cross between Eminem and McVeigh himself, shines as the scared, angry, self justifying, young man on death row. And Peter Eyre is sublime as the much older writer, instantly attracted to the young fit, cocky, blond mass murderer. They are both waiting to die. The writer, not to mention the audience, is repulsed by the younger man's politics - neo fascism - the half-baked justification for killing hundreds of people is shocking. What is fascinating though is how much we learn about the writer and his motivations, his desires and his loneliness. The relationship between the two grows in an entirely convincing way.

Martin Walker

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