TWIST IN THE BENDING

URI Geller is helping Rupert Everett to be a real bender in a sparkling comedy-drama.
Rupert stars as a gay Kiwi journalist with a talent for contorting spoons in Seine Sunny Day at the Hampstead Theatre in London.
Uri Geller personally mangled the cutlery used in Martin Sherman’s brilliantly witty new play and gave Rupert some tips on mind-bending facial expressions.
In the interval Uri confessed to me that he actually remains calm during psychic activity. He demonstrated this by bending my teaspoon without a flicker of emotion. That impressed me almost as much as the play, which is set in Cairo during the war and involves love, lust and mystery.
Sherman’s six richly drawn characters include a one-lunged drama queen, who performs voodoo on her husband’s “tummy dancing” lover. The twist at the end is out of this world.