I reviewed The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith for Everything Theatre:
A new play supported with funding from IdeasTap and Arts Council England, The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith tells the story of a young stockbroker confronting the moral quandaries of his profession. Tom Machell plays the winsome, naive Ridley as an overgrown schoolboy who realises that he’s in over his head but has no idea how to get out because he’s never known anything but money and power. A chance meeting with Freddy who claims to be an artist and is clearly more than he seems prompts Ridley to impetuously quit his job and become an artist too.
Read on for the rest of the review over at Everything Theatre.