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Actor Rob Lowe has received glowing reviews from theatre critics for his debut in A Few Good Men. Here are a few of their comments (BBC News UK Edition):

Lowe is a terrific stage performer. His timing is canny; he cuts through dialogue like a sharp knife with a fine line in crumpled self-deprecation. This is a play packed with memorable one-liners, and Lowe delivers most of them. ~~ The Independent

Lowe Raises Bar for Stars ~~ Daily Mail

Fresh from The West Wing, Rob Lowe takes on the Cruise role and proves that he can hold centre stage and -- going by the reaction of the audience –- that he has the gravitas to carry this high-velocity drama with relaxed confidence.  ~~ Rainbow Network

Rob Lowe excels in the Cruise role of a flip, hip, Navy lawyer assigned to defend two Marines accused of murder. ~~ The Sun
Anyone who watches The West Wing on television will know that Rob Lowe is extremely good in his slilck, Brat Pack way at delivering Aaron Sorkin's quick-fire, funny-smart dialogue.  So that's one good reason to go and see Sorkin's play A Few Good Men at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. ~~ The Sunday Telegraph

Rob Lowe Shines In A Few Good Men. ~~ The Observer

With four seasons of The West Wing behind him, Lowe easily handles the fast, snappy rhythms of Sorkin’s witty dialogue, which gives the play a thick veneer of intelligence. Lowe is in fine form,and so laid back he could deliver the role without getting out of bed. ~~ The Jewish Chronicle


Lowe is not just a pretty face; he's an impressive actor, in command of Sorkin's machine-gun repartee and dialogue as polished, and occasionally as hard-hitting as a Marine's boots. ~~ Mail on Sunday

Sorkin's script scores thanks to Lowe's timing. ~~ The Independent

Lowe cuts an appropriately impassioned figure. ~~ bbc.co.uk.

Rob Lowe is excellent as the young-looking, baseball-fixated rookie lawyer. ~~ Daily Telegraph

As the sarcastic US Navy lawyer in Sorkin's court-martial drama, Rob Lowe is handsome, quirky, feline but most of all completely believable. ~~ Daily Mail


He literally g-Lowe-s with star quality. ~~ Sky Active

As the rookie all-American lawyer with a passion for baseball, glamour boy Rob Lowe, star of The West Wing, launches a one-man charm offensive on the audience, bringing some cute touches of light-touch humour to the role of this young man on a learning curve. ~~ What's On

He memorably captures a witty, damaged character and movingly shows this apparent lightweight learning moral courage under pressure. ~~ Daily Telegraph

Rob Lowe plays Harvard attorney Daniel A. Kaffee with sleek ease. ~~ The Observer

Rob Lowe as the young lawyer also proves that he is as much at home on stage as on movie and TV screens. He has a lithe, square-jawed presence. He also shows the hero's incremental growth in moral stature as the action proceeds. Above all, he lends the character's neat one-liners the lightest of touches. ~~ The Guardian

Courtroom drama at its finest, with Rob Lowe in terrific form as the young advocate in Aaron Sorkin's  play about two GIs charged with causing the death of a third. ~~ The Independent

When Rob Lowe took his bow he grinned with all the gorgeousness that stole hearts in the early days. ~~ Sky Active



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December 2005

Regarding Americans who have graced the London stage in 2005, "The best import of the lot was Rob Lowe of West Wing fame. With his delicate bones and his crisp ennunciation, he did just fine in A Few Good Men at the Theatre Royal Haymarket."

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A FEW GOOD MEN
 BBCNews UK Edition
September 7, 2005

 Actor Rob Lowe has received glowing reviews from UK theatre critics for his West End debut in A Few Good Men.

Written by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, the play was filmed by director Rob Reiner in 1992 with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson.

It tells of a Navy lawyer, played by Lowe, who is called upon to defend two marines accused of causing the death of a fellow soldier at the US military base at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba.
Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Rob Lowe), son a of a left-wing lawyer who fell foul of McCarthyism, is a rising young advocate hot out of Harvard, now serving in the US Navy. Called on to defend the pair of junior ranks, he funks: all he can trot out is subpoenas and plea-bargains; till, that is, a young female lawyer (Suranne Jones) steels him to the task. Cue a Maryland court-martial, superbly staged before a senior officer (Robert D. Phillips, first-rate) and the agonies unfold.

It all sounds familiar, formulaic, even forgettable, till you add the wit. Sorkin's is a brilliant, intelligent, cutting, shivering and even nasty script whose glorious wry humour only serves to heighten the threat. What makes its message strong is that all the ranks involved believe the monstrosities they are conniving at are for the best. As the Phantoms and helicopters irrupting deafeningly onto the stage remind us, men's lives may depend on it.

Like several of his fellow Brat Pack actors, Lowe is a terrific stage performer. His timing is canny; he cuts through dialogue like a sharp knife with a fine line in crumpled self-deprecation. This is a play packed with memorable one-liners, and Lowe delivers most of them. Jones and Dan Fredenburghare admirable as Lowe's fellow-lawyers-cum-foils, in an evening of sizzling performances - Jack Ellis's bilious colonel (reprising the role made famous by Jack Nicholson); Jonathan Guy Lewis's vile, cynical, bible-waving subordinate; John Barrowman's skilfully understated prosecutor.

What maintains pace most is Mark Henderson's blistering light changes and the shifting patterns of Michael Pavelka's chicken-wire Guantamano and concentrated courtroom. David Esbjornson directs the show magnificently. Believe me, you'll think you were there.


LOWE IGNORES TERROR FEARS TO TREAD
contactmusic.com
July 28, 2005

American actor Rob Lowe refuses to let terrorists scare him away from London as he prepares to star on the West End stage.

The heart-throb is playing rookie navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men at the British capital's Haymarket Theatre Royal from next month (AUG05) and laughed off friends' worries back in America over the safety of the city.

Lowe says, "I'm not worried about working in London. I've brought my family over, my kids are going to school here. We love you and adore you. After the attacks, I'm actually more anxious to do the play so I can do my bit. "I know what you are going through. We went through it with 9/11 in New York and we just got on with what he had to do, and that's what's happening here now.

Lowe, his wife Sheryl and children Matthew and JohnOwen have temporarily moved to London for six months while the former West Wing star treads the boards.

London's public transport system was the scene of carnage on 7 July (05), when explosions caused by four suicide bombers left 52 dead and over 700 injured.


"I feel very honoured that your country has stood by our war on terror - the war in Iraq and this is my way, if only by helping in a tiny way, to repay you for your support. "I know there has been a tremendous cost for supporting my country's war on terror, but I appreciate it. "I think the current climate will actually infuse the emotions of the play."





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