![]() ![]() Salvation soon arrives in the form of Hawthorne (Alvaro Flores), a Secret Service operative so keen to have an operative in Cuba that he wilfully overlooks the fact that Wormold, whose only social connection is an expat German and who can barely operate the vacuums he sells, may not actually have his finger on the subversive pulse of the city.īut as Wormold’s Germanic friend Hasselbacher (Adam Keast) points out – why go to the trouble of unearthing actual secrets for your reports, when you can just make them up and submit inflated expense claims?Īnd thus begins Wormold’s career as a spy… ![]() ![]() His career as a vacuum salesman – never, one presumes, the most lucrative of jobs – proves utterly incapable of keeping up with Milly’s extravagances when she commits to purchasing a horse.ĭesperate to give her the happiness he fears she lacks (something my own parents failed to grasp whenever I made the case for a Lego version of the Death Star), he agrees to bankroll the purchase – but is left clueless as to he’ll fund it. ![]() How do you keep up with the cost of having children?Ī topical question with the recent rise in costs of living, but one that – based on The Watermill Theatre’s new musical version of Graham Greene’s 1958 novel “Our Man in Havana” – has been relevant to generations of parents.Įxpat James Wormold (James Lister) finds himself single-handedly raising daughter Milly (Daniella Agredo Piper) in pre-revolutionary Havana, following the departure of his wife. ![]()
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