No Change Without Trouble: Clarence Darrow At The Old Vic — londonist.com

Tonight the Old Vic resembles a courthouse. Arranged in the round, with seats climbing every which way, there remains only a little plinth in the centre. Called to the stand is one Kevin Spacey, 54. The theatre’s artistic director marks the end of his ten-year tenure with a one-man show about the turn-of-the-twentieth-century American lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow. Spacey paces animatedly about an office as an old-aged Darrow, narrating his career case by case: holding up, talking about, and ultimately filing the souvenirs of his most famous legal defences. He makes the moves of one who is finishing stories, achieving closure – perhaps even making confessions?

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