I found a few more reviews for Cigarettes and Chocolate. A lot of nice things were said about Tamzin’s performance! There are also a few stills with Tamzin in the gallery. Read the full reviews at The Cambridge Student Online and CambridgeTab.co.uk. I think the first performance was February 3, so hopefully more from the play will be available soon.

Tamzin Merchant cuts a delicate, yet fiery, figure at the heart of the play. Her final monologue seems to mean nothing, only for a tear to run down her cheek, heart-wrenchingly demonstrating to the audience how, whilst the words mean nothing, the unsaid means everything. It is a performance that helps to hold the play together, and Merchant demonstrates tremendous poise and composure in the role.

When Merchant speaks, her success is just as mixed. As the play ends, her suggestion to the audience ‘Don’t speak for a day’ doesn’t carry the force of an instruction, and her explanations of what being silent means have an overwrought sincerity [...] she captures the panic that comes with returning to speech magnificently, giving the sort of speech Godot’s Lucky would’ve made had he grown up in Lambeth.

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