Philip French 

Acts of Godfrey – review

Simon Callow's performance as God doesn't compensate for the rhyming couplets in this British comedy, writes Philip French
  
  

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Simon Callow as Him Upstairs in comedy Acts of Godfrey. Photograph: PR

A suave Simon Callow plays God in many guises, manipulating the lives of eight salespeople attending a weekend motivational course at an English country hotel. The dialogue is in rhyming couplets, an initially amusing device that rapidly becomes tiresome as the listener comes to anticipate the end of the next line, "vicars" inevitably being followed three seconds later by "knickers".

 

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