Charm watch

He's hoping to interview a notorious serial killer, but first must get past the man in charge, the eccentric and more than a bit creepy Dr. Farquhar, portrayed by Carradine.
The actor scored quite a coup on Broadway in the early '90s as the ingratiating star of 'The Will Rogers Follies.' Carradine displayed a laconic charm in the musical, a charm that has been replaced here by a bad case of overemoting. A plummy accent. A wild-eyed demeanor. And a smarmy sense of the sinister.
But then he and Godart are stuck in a deadly situation forced by the playwright to recount at length the history of the mass murderer the writer wants to interview for his next book

If, as so often, the bass aria stole the show, the preceding ensemble (Wretched Lovers), with its beautiful broad strokes and pattering underplay, was Handel at his most wondrous. The Act One love duet (Happy We) was cloudlessly voiced, and Mulroy was mellifluous in his aria Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing. John Butt conducted briskly, but with ample charm, the sound of Patrick Denecker's warbling recorder being a special pleasure.
William Sweeney's Songs of Connacht - five wan little reminiscences of mostly melancholy human relationships - formed an apt prologue. Sung by alternating tenors with an ensemble of period instruments, they were beautiful and moving, their atmospheric accompaniments evoking at times the haunting strains of a travelling hurdy-gurdy

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