SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30
CHANGING ENDS
Alan Carr bursts in periodically as his grown-up self in this warm, semiautobiographical comedy, but it’s newcomer Oliver Savell who really shines as the determinedly different schoolboy Alan. Carr grew up gay in a conventionally masculine world in 1980s Northampton, with a gruff fourth-division football manager for a father. But, as his teacher Miss Gideon (Cariad Lloyd) tells him, the bullies who currently plague his life will one day be telling everyone, “I know Alan Carr.” Reassured, he’s off again on the journey to be Alan.welcomed this as “a smart, inventive, honest and charming coming-of-age story” and the called it “a steamroller of a comedy, open, welcoming and beaming with easy charm.”
