Monroe still steals the show

Andrew Potter has revitalised the old Wycombe Theatre Company, which had become rather jaded, into Wildcard Theatre Company which seems to have a completely fresh and innovative outlook on life. Some of the company's latest productions (Gawain, Hiawatha) have been splendid works.

Insignificance is the best of the lot. It is not always an easy play to perform with its heady mixture of issues and characters such as Marilyn Monroe and Einstein

demonstrate the theory of relativity with interruptions from Joe Di Maggio and an ascerbic Senator McCarthy. It is all too easy to fall into the verbal gymnastics trap in some of Johnson's plays, forgetting about the subtleties of onstage action.

Not so Wildcard. This was as entertaining a piece as I have seen in a while. Iain Armstrong was perfectly cast as McCarthy, bombastic, self-assured, filling the stage with his presence. Chris Myles, too, played an excellent part as the gentle genius Einstein, lost in a world of higher mathematics, but bullied by Di Maggio, seduced by Monroe

and intimidated by McCarthy.

Fidel Nanton played the baseball player just as one might imagine him being, brainless but likeable.

Daniele Sanderson's Marilyn Monroe was in a class of its own however. Every gesture, flattening of the skirt, pout and shake of those blonde curls just oozed character, and wearing THAT white dress she was just sensational.

If you haven't seen the film, DON'T. This is far better and Potter is taking it on tour. If you get the chance, go and see it.