Evening Standard, 14 July 1993, by Robin Stringer
"Right blend for coffee lover"
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FAMILIAR to millions as the Gold Blend advertisement man 
forever flirting with Sharon Maughan, Anthony Head is 
currently pursuing a different kind of ambition to great 
effect. 

He is appearing in the Chichester Festival's intimate 
Minerva Theatre studio in a new production of Patrick 
Hamilton's classic thriller *Rope*, which has won immediate 
praise from the critics. The Evening Standard described it 
as 'near-faultless'. 

Head plays Rupert Cadell, a fastidious poet invited by two 
handsome bored young men to dine along with other guests off 
a chest which contains the remains of the young man they 
have murdered. 

Debra Beaumont is one of those friends, a rather frivolous 
girl not at all in tune with the disillusioned Cadell, a 
casualty of the trenches. 

The suspense in the play lies in wondering whether the 
murderers will be discovered. But, according to director 
Keith Baxter, the play is far more than a cunningly crafted 
pot-boiler. 

'We are moved during the course of the action,' he says, 'to 
a dreadful admiration for the killers' effrontery, wondering 
at the same time what we would do if we suspected someone we 
loved to be a monster.' 

Caption: Playing with death: Anthony Head and Debra 
Beaumont, appearing in *Rope*


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