Spacey Strikes Back

Kevin Spacey isn’t taking the latest blasts from the London press lying down. Despite the early closure of his latest production at the Old Vic, Spacey insists that audiences love what he’s doing, and accuses the city’s notoriously sharp-tongued critics of having it in for him. “In the end, Spacey is confronted by two dilemmas. One is the celebrity trap of which he is both beneficiary and victim. The other is the anachronistic position of the Old Vic in the modern world.”