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2022
2022
Three On A Couch
Kings Head Theatre, London
Kings Head Theatre, London
Leigh played the role of Miriam in the controversial play,
Three On A Couch, co-starring with Michael Praed and Rolf Saxon. Leigh had previously worked with Michael in the
West End production of Contact and with Rolf in the
West End production of The Seven Year Itch.
Three On A Couch, co-starring with Michael Praed and Rolf Saxon. Leigh had previously worked with Michael in the
West End production of Contact and with Rolf in the
West End production of The Seven Year Itch.
Three On A Couch was written by Nobel Prize-winner Carl Djerassi, best known as the founding father of the contraceptive pill. His play, Three On A Couch, is about writer Stephen Marx (Rolf Saxon) who is an affluent, celebrated figure in the literary world but he's nonetheless discontent and determines to stage his own demise whilst continuing to write using a succession of heteronyms- imaginary identities all differently utilizing his creative abilities. The only person privy to his bizarre plan is Freudian psychoanalyst Theodore Hoffman (Michael Praed) who's drawn unwittingly into a conspiratorial role, a position that becomes untenable when Stephen's glamorous and inquisitive wife Miriam (Leigh Zimmerman) arrives looking for answers.
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Reviews
"Edible is certainly the word for Leigh Zimmerman who plays the blonde, statuesque Miriam as the vamp who would put Veronica Lake in the shade while demonstrating the art of wielding a mango fork. Her expert peeling of that mango is obviously the result of years of practice. ..... But if you cherish good performers as exotic beasts of the stage, Zimmerman's your girl. She has exploded rhythmically across the London stage as Velma in Chicago, the Girl in the Yellow Dress in Contact (partnered by Michael Praed) and will, later this year, be one good reason to go and see 'The Producers'. Here she wears a series of stunning costumes and proves that a dancer's graceful posture is no way inimical to the precise delivery of comedy lines, even if they are not very funny. Check that Veronica Lake reference; Grace Kelly's up there, too. She has also made me much more interested in mangos than I was before I sat down. From now on, plain old fruit salad simply won't do."
- Michael Coveney /Daily Mail
"Leigh Zimmerman is a blonde, leggy vision in tight-fitting outfits (you almost expect her to enter in a Freudian slip) who specialises in creating art from food."
- Mark Cook
"Both Zimmerman, imagine Catherine Deneuve as a long-legged New Yorker, and Saxon enjoy their sparring...."
- Ian Johns / The Times
"A wonderfully provocative and saucy Leigh Zimmerman (Jamie Lee Curtis meets a Hitchcock blonde) squeezes this scene for every drop of its suggestive juice..."
- Georgina Brown / Mail on Sunday
"....and Leigh Zimmerman oozes sex appeal and brain power as the jilted wife, overseeing the highly suggestive peeling of a mango during a hilarious seduction scene that has juice dropping over the couch."
- Dominic Cavendish / The Daily Telegraph
"Leigh Zimmerman is a bold, statuesque blonde who can do some wonderfully symbolic things with a mango, so who can blame the shrink for compromising his position."
- Robert Hewison / Sunday Times
"...while the production enjoys a high voltage asset in the presence of Leigh Zimmerman as Miriam."
- John Gross / Daily Telegraph
"Leigh Zimmerman's sassy, mango-wielding seductress has a vengeful side not to be messed with."
- Dominic Martin / The Stage
"Leigh Zimmerman prowls as the luscious wife."
- Financial Times
"...there are robust, highly enjoyable performances from Michael Praed as the repressed Freudian, Rolf Saxon as the self-obsessed author and , in particular, Leigh Zimmerman as the glamorous Miriam."
- Robert Shore / Time Out London
"...and Leigh Zimmerman, who is a tall drink of water, plays Miriam with the straight-on and sexy confidence of a woman who knows exactly what to do with a mango."
- Ray Bennett / The Hollywood Reporter
- Michael Coveney /Daily Mail
"Leigh Zimmerman is a blonde, leggy vision in tight-fitting outfits (you almost expect her to enter in a Freudian slip) who specialises in creating art from food."
- Mark Cook
"Both Zimmerman, imagine Catherine Deneuve as a long-legged New Yorker, and Saxon enjoy their sparring...."
- Ian Johns / The Times
"A wonderfully provocative and saucy Leigh Zimmerman (Jamie Lee Curtis meets a Hitchcock blonde) squeezes this scene for every drop of its suggestive juice..."
- Georgina Brown / Mail on Sunday
"....and Leigh Zimmerman oozes sex appeal and brain power as the jilted wife, overseeing the highly suggestive peeling of a mango during a hilarious seduction scene that has juice dropping over the couch."
- Dominic Cavendish / The Daily Telegraph
"Leigh Zimmerman is a bold, statuesque blonde who can do some wonderfully symbolic things with a mango, so who can blame the shrink for compromising his position."
- Robert Hewison / Sunday Times
"...while the production enjoys a high voltage asset in the presence of Leigh Zimmerman as Miriam."
- John Gross / Daily Telegraph
"Leigh Zimmerman's sassy, mango-wielding seductress has a vengeful side not to be messed with."
- Dominic Martin / The Stage
"Leigh Zimmerman prowls as the luscious wife."
- Financial Times
"...there are robust, highly enjoyable performances from Michael Praed as the repressed Freudian, Rolf Saxon as the self-obsessed author and , in particular, Leigh Zimmerman as the glamorous Miriam."
- Robert Shore / Time Out London
"...and Leigh Zimmerman, who is a tall drink of water, plays Miriam with the straight-on and sexy confidence of a woman who knows exactly what to do with a mango."
- Ray Bennett / The Hollywood Reporter