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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 2, 2018 16:41:51 GMT
What an interesting premise for a play, which I found to be uncomfortable, brutal and equally absorbing. I see where the angles for Mamet come in and The Appreentice, you even had a male version of Katie Hopkin if you please, but oddly this also had shades of 1984 and Mike Bartlett’s Bull about it.
The Transgender bit didn’t bother me, maybe because I got a heads up on here - but an audience member walked out because of it.
One day Laura Pitt-Pulford is going to bag herself an Olivier, bit like Emma Williams where it is insane they have not won anything yet.
Also interesting that this play has been to 60 countries and translated into 20 languages, I assumed that the London gets plays first or second, however here is not the case.
Is this the way Human Resources are going, being Psychologists or will they be replaced by Artificial Intelligents?
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Post by david on Jun 3, 2018 17:36:04 GMT
Having watched this at today's matinee,I have to agree with other posts that it was both a brutal and honest assessment of people and what lengths people will go to to get what they want.
It worked well as a straight through play as I don't know where you could put an interval.
There really where some nice touches of comedy,particularly the hat scene along with the more darker elements such as the transgender scene which immediately followed the hat scene. Although tough to watch, I thought it was well written and gave an honest assessment of what happens in real life.
Overall, not a bad play to end the theatre weekend and considering the temperatures outside, the auditorium was actually nice and cool to sit in for once!
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Post by alece10 on Jun 3, 2018 18:56:25 GMT
I also saw this today and my head hurt after. Very clever and very complicated. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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