West End's Bombshells to Close October 16

Bombshells, the collection of monologues written for Caroline O'Connor by Joanna Murray-Smith, will end its run at the Arts Theatre on October 16, two weeks shy of its original booking period.

In Bombshells, O'Connor best known for playing Nini Legs-in-the-Air in Moulin Rouge and appearing in Chicago on Broadway inhabits many characters, including a teenager and a young mother. The show has run in Australia and played at Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh before transferring to the Arts, where it began performances on September 4. Simon Phillips directs.

Lyn Gardner of The Guardian wrote of the piece: "Modern woman is here in all her many stereotypes, although who is to say that clichés may not sometimes be true. In fact, they are funny and often touching in these four monologues deftly written by Joanna Murray-Smith and performed with astonishing aplomb by Caroline O'Connor. She's so good, so remarkably versatile, that by the end you've forgotten there is only one person on stage."