“Real Football Factories” host and English actor, Danny Dyer, now stars as Sid Vicious in a new London production, “Kurt and Sid” about a hypothetical meeting between rock icons Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious.

Review after the jump…

 Review and Image via Telegraph

“There are two startling achievements in Kurt & Sid. Smiles turns the sad and wasteful story of Cobain, a heroin addict who blew his brains out with a shotgun in 1994, into a work that is at once laugh-out-loud funny, touching and thought-provoking. Perhaps even more remarkably, he turns Sid Vicious, late of the Sex Pistols and perhaps the most worthless individual ever to emerge even from the murky world of rock music, into a highly engaging hero.

The action is set in the room above Cobain’s garage in Seattle in 1994 on the night Nirvana’s singer and songwriter prepares to commit suicide. He is interrupted, however, by a hedgehog-haired punk in bondage gear and a swastika T-shirt who bears a startling resemblance to Vicious. Is he the ghost of the Sex Pistols’ famously incompetent bassist who died of a heroin overdose in 1979 after killing his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen? A Sid Vicious impersonator? Or a figment of Cobain’s troubled imagination?

It doesn’t matter. The dialogue zings with great jokes and serious argument as Vicious, who has mysteriously acquired a compassion, intelligence and wit he never displayed in real life, tries to persuade Cobain that it would be wrong and selfish to kill himself. And while it is amusing to hear Vicious spouting Latin aphorisms, much to his own bewilderment, it is genuinely moving to hear him making eloquent arguments about the duty to keep on living, however bleak and pointless human existence seems.

Danny Dyer plays Sid with cocky charm, sarky humour and shambolic charisma, a cockney jack-the-lad discovering a decency he never knew he had as he tries to make posthumous amends for a pathetic, wasted life. Shaun Evans as Kurt captures the pain, the self-obsession and the messianic humourlessness of Cobain, fatally locked into a prison of self-loathing and despair.

Dyer doing his hooligan expose thing on Real Football Factories