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Post by minion on Mar 23, 2022 11:42:27 GMT
Love this at the Standard : "The Human Voice review: Ruth Wilson shouldn’t have answered the phone to Ivo van Hove"
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 23, 2022 13:24:09 GMT
Love this at the Standard : "The Human Voice review: Ruth Wilson shouldn’t have answered the phone to Ivo van Hove" God what a mood |
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Post by floorshow on Mar 24, 2022 22:43:16 GMT
Saw it tonight and despite it having so many issues, still walked out with a smile on my face.
The box is a mixed blessing, it really works as a location. But it did mean there were lengthy spells when we could only see her from the earlobes up (stalls B) which grows tiresome.
I love How to Disappear Completely but after the first 2 uses, it's third outing tramples over the last scene and was so long it let all the tension out of the room.
Applause started quite measured and nervy but did build into a decent response without any actual standing. And she deserves it cos she was great, really good but this shouldn't have been padded like it has been.
It would have worked better paired with something suitable.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Mar 24, 2022 22:54:00 GMT
Also there tonight, strong performance in a poor play, special mention to the blue dress a stunning transformation.
Centre row C stalls, view was OK but did find the box pointless and an unnecessary barrier and agree the musical interludes disrupted the flow.
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Post by floorshow on Mar 25, 2022 14:00:36 GMT
We snuck a peak into the circle on the way out, the elevated view did make it much easier to see into the box but the distance isn't ideal for her performance which was quite minimal at times (in a good way!)
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Post by inthenose on Mar 25, 2022 15:19:40 GMT
Dog of a play, isn't it!
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Post by floorshow on Mar 25, 2022 15:59:30 GMT
As a concept it's a single idea dragged out too long and dated.
Tighten it up to 45 mins and it would be infinitely better, update it and it's a different play...
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Post by talkingheads on Mar 25, 2022 18:15:53 GMT
Meant to be seeing this tomorrow, but tonight's show I was going to at Ronnie Scotts got cancelled, so I'm no longer going to London. Filled in the ATG form and a request for a credit voucher was flat out refused. Never had that before. How quickly the theatres are reverting to their greedy, money grabbing ways.
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Post by jamb0r on Mar 26, 2022 22:30:44 GMT
Got front row stalls in the TodayTix rush. Definitely feel like I got my £20 worth watching the performance alone. Thought the play was fine but nothing special.
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Post by lichtie on Mar 28, 2022 17:44:59 GMT
Thought this was a production of three parts. The good - Ruth Wilson almost manages to make it worthwhile. The middling - the set sort of works; reminded me a lot of Hedda Gabler at the NT (also IvH, and RW) so not really an original though. The view further back in the stalls was fine. The poor - not really sure this play needs resurrecting. I can see it would have been cutting edge when Cocteau wrote it - now it just seems very very tired and out of date. Generally well received on Saturday night, though not by all (a few walkouts during the performance).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2022 9:54:02 GMT
I was another of those moved from a previously selected seat due to sight line issues:in my instance I was moved to seat D1 in the dress circle which, though it cut off a tiny fragment of the right hand side of the box, offered a fantastic view.
I didn't leave the theatre thinking I'd seen something amazing though, equally, I didn't feel I'd seen something awful either.
I think Wilson gave a good performance though occasionally over played elements but the problem here is Van Hove's direction which adds an unnecessary additional 20-30 minutes to the play and, for me at least, stripped the play of a significant part of the emotion via some of his decisions such as Wilson facing the wall for the entire length of the Radiohead song towards the end of which I can't have been the only one wishing things would 'get a move on'.
With regards to Van Hove, I may rely on feedback from those who have seen his future plays going forwards because for every 'A View From the Bridge' which left me in awe, there's an 'Antigone' which left me on the cusp of falling asleep despite it being one of my favourite plays.
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Post by floorshow on Mar 29, 2022 13:56:43 GMT
Antigone is still his low point for me, what a waste of Binoche too  . |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2022 14:02:08 GMT
Antigone is still his low point for me, what a waste of Binoche too . I couldn't believe how bad it was. |
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Post by Dave B on Apr 9, 2022 17:34:32 GMT
Rushed (front row stalls) the matinee on the final day today. Ruth Wilson is great and the only thing that really holds it together. I adore Radiohead, seen them a couple of dozen times but the same song three times and while RW just faces the wall. Ugh. Felt slow and disconnected from everything. A chunk of empty seats and in a rarity in my experience at the Pinter, FoH were actively taking people from upstairs and moving them down to stalls about 5 minutes before it began.
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