Reviews
REVIEWS
THE PITMAN PAINTERS
- Oldham Coliseum
- Simeon Truby as Oliver has some of the most impassioned dialogue of the piece and delivers it with authenticity and sincerity. He captures the conflicted nature of Oliver well without over exaggeration
- Simeon Truby, serving as Musical Director as well as playing Oliver in the show, deserves much praise. Truby’s is a very well delivered performance which allows us to empathise with the working classes to the point where we genuinely feel resentment at Helen Kay’s character Helen Sutherland when she proclaims, “It’s not your fault you’re working class, or that you live here"
- Simeon Truby plays the most promising artist of the group Oliver with sensitivity and focus
- Terrific work from Simeon Truby who gives a very strong performance as Olivier Kilbourn (one of the most talented and reflective of the group), who faces some hard choices about his relationship with the community which means so much to him
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
- Salisbury Playhouse/Colchester Mercury
- As Mr. Mushnik, the proprietor of the florists shop, Simeon Truby pitched his performance perfectly. Initially a failure as a businessman, his fortunes take a dramatic turn for the better when Audrey II, that strange and interesting plant, is placed in the shop window. As one who probably couldn’t even remember when he had last smiled, his decision, made in song and dance of course, to adopt Seymour as his son was a real joy.
- Simeon Truby makes a wonderful Mushnik
- Simeon Truby seizes his school of Fiddler on the Roof moments, especially in “Mushnik and son”
- Simeon Truby meanwhile delights as the Jewish shop owner, Mr Mushnik. His song, Mushnik and Son, is boisterously energetic
SLEEPIING BEAUTY
- Oldham Coliseum
- Simeon Truby steps into the role of nanny nutty this year and Fontayne may wish to keep a tight hold of his delightful wardrobe as Truby certainly wore it well. He makes a delightful dame and fills the much loved Doc Martens of Fontayne with aplomb
- Dame - Simeon Truby ( Nanny Nutty) makes a great job of all the gags and slapstick (Laurel & Hardy style) and as befits a Dame gets all the best outrageous cossies.
- Simeon Truby as Nanny Nutty was perfect from start to finish. Despite stepping in at the last minute he looked quite at home in a myriad of stunning costumes which seem to get more breath taking year on year
- Truby slipped perfectly into the frilly bloomers and wigs - the cream horn creation is particularly memorable - and if you thought there ain't nothing like Fine Time's dame, you really need to see his outstanding understudy. He embraced the role of Nanna Nutty with all the grace and beauty you'd expect and carried off the now legendary wardrobe - including a fruity tart, 1920s flapper girl and Christmas pudding - like a pro
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
- Royal Exchange
- There are excellent performances at the other end of the age spectrum from Kieron Jecchinis as the “white trash" Bob Ewell, and Simeon Truby as the morally nuanced Sheriff Heck Tate
- Simeon Truby is calmly, quietly supportive as sheriff Heck Tate
- A strong supporting cast play neighbours, friends and those hostile to Atticus’ defence of a black man in 1930s Alabama, particularly Maudie (Nicola Sloane) and Heck Tate, the decent sheriff (Simeon Truby)
THE RECRUITING OFFICER - Theatre by the Lake
- Simeon Truby as his sergeant sidekick has the right common-sense practicality when it comes to carrying out orders. Truby’s apt comic manner retains a sense of the sergeant beneath the fortune-telling disguise adopted to promote falsehood.
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
- RSC
- There's some excellent support elsewhere, including Bart David Soroczynski as the Frenchman Dr Caius and Simeon Truby as the host of the Garter Inn
THE CRUCIBLE
- York Theatre Royal
- Simeon Truby plays Reverend Parris with aplomb
- Once Simeon Truby, as Reverend Parris, settles into the long, startling opening act, he becomes increasingly convincing
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
- York Theatre Royal
- With some pitch-perfect performances - including Julia Watson as the family’s indomitable and practical mother and Simeon Truby conveying both the youthful exuberance of Gerald and his wistful middle-aged self - it has a warmth as blissful as a Greek summer’s morning.
- Truby is a lynchpin of this production, waltzing in and out of the action with an avuncular, fond smile on his face and narrating with passion and pleasure.
PARLOUR SONG
- York Theatre Royal
- It is Simeon Truby as demolition man Ned who provides both the play’s heart and menace. He is a man who fears he is losing both his sanity and his wife. As he becomes aware she may be unfaithful Truby suggests someone so desperate to protect what he has that he may end up destroying it. It is a performance of hurt, bewilderment and danger which we never stop identifying with, or being slightly scared of what he might do next.
- Most impressive is Truby, utterly transformed from his turns in The Crucible and My Family & Other Animals
