Review: LUCINDA SPRAGG: AN EVENING WITH at The Rosemary Branch 29th July 2022

 ‘Some terrific one-liners’

Lucinda Spragg is promoting her recently published book. She’s a ‘professional feather ruffler’, joining all the ‘right’ campaigns, being outspoken whilst not being very politically correct. Her political agenda is badly thought out. She’s come from privilege with only her small sphere of self interest to worry about. It’s all very akin to Adina and Patsy in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, always coming back to themselves without any consideration of the real world in which most of us live.   

This one-woman parody written and performed by Grace Millie has some terrific one-liners, but the comedy often fails to land. I suggest that the character lacks a ‘soul’ and tends to be rather one note. We never get to meet the real Lucinda Spragg, she is always just a parody, but the best parody goes beyond that. For example, Al Murray as the pub landlord is a stock character but Murray has made him his own.  We need to see what lies beneath Lucinda Spragg’s bluster to see something deeper and more meaningful. 

The writing has promise but it doesn’t tell us enough about the character, so we don’t really learn anything new, nor do we understand what Millie is conveying to us beyond a general poke at privilege.

It’s worth noting that on the night there was a lot of laughter coming from certain areas of the auditorium.

LUCINDA SPRAGG produced by Moonloaf

Reviewed by Heather Jeffery