The aging female film star, the ageing beautiful male prostitute, the flowery dialogue. Easy to mock, but Williams writes it so well and with conviction and also underpins it with some first rate drama - he's back in town to get his old girl, whose powerful and scary dad threatens to castrate the man. And it leads up to that finale.
The movie start part, the Princess, is actually a support part really - she's at the beginning then comes back at the end which feels like Williams going "I need to pay off that relationship more". Once I read that it started as a one act play you can see the seams but it does work very effectively.
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