Dallas royalty is a real catch
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW
IT has more twists and turns than Tommy Burns on its way to a startling climax.
Just when you begin to feel a certain smugness that you have the clues all sewn up, along comes another fork in the road to leave you feeling lost again.
And while credit is in the writing, it takes a talented cast to sell it quite so well.
There were certainly plenty of big names to bring audiences into the theatre.
Dallas legend Patrick Duffy leads in the tale about a wife going missing from their honeymoon.
While his real-life other half, former Happy Days starlet Linda Purl, is his wife … or is she?
But the real star is Scotland’s own Gray O’Brien whose US accent blended seamlessly with the genuine articles.
O’Brien is the detective with more of an air of Columbo about him though, apologies to Peter Falk, a much more handsome one.
He seems to blunder his way through the investigation but there is clearly more to Inspector Levine than meets the eye.
The first act is just a fourhander with Ben Nealon completing the line-up as priest Father Kelleher.
But the cast widens in the second act as the truth begins to unfold.
It is not quite edge of your seat stuff but there is more than enough to give your brain a good workout.
Runs until Saturday.