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Post by lichtie on Jun 18, 2019 18:43:14 GMT
Don't think I missed much have dozed through a fair chunk of the first half hour. Definitely livelier after the interval, and worth it for Allam playing emotionally constipated ogre if nothing else. Not one I'd be rushing to see another version of.
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Post by dlevi on Jun 19, 2019 8:39:14 GMT
I had seen the Northern Broadsides production directed by Jonathan Miller of this a few years ago at The Other Palace and pretty much loved it. I booked a ticket for the NT production way in advance and was happy about it. Then I started reading all the negative comments on this board and thought : Oh I'm in for a boring evening. However, having seen it last night I have to say I thought it was pretty stunning - not perfect - some of those accents were so thick I doubt even if subtitles could help. I'm all for authenticity but ...
I thought the performances by and large were terrific ( Ms Vasan being the exception ) and the design was everything we come to expect, want and demand of the the NT. It's a richly rewarding evening and while I don't recommend it to everyone, for those serious drama lit majors among us , it's unmissable.
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Post by andrew on Jun 23, 2019 11:37:38 GMT
I really liked this, was never bored, and am disappointed to hear that people left at the interval. Great acting, great atmosphere.
I would personally like to rip the stool off the stage and throw it under the drum revolve though, what a heinous piece of set decoration for anyone in the first few rows.
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Post by Latecomer on Jun 23, 2019 11:54:03 GMT
I really liked this, was never bored, and am disappointed to hear that people left at the interval. Great acting, great atmosphere. I would personally like to rip the stool off the stage and throw it under the drum revolve though, what a heinous piece of set decoration for anyone in the first few rows. I was SO angry about the stool that I wrote a strongly worded letter to the national box office. To their credit they sent me a credit note for the £30 I had spent on my two tickets. I am used to “slightly restricted” in the first few rows but this was just too much (I was in A19 so just below the stool!)
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Post by andrew on Jun 23, 2019 16:34:47 GMT
I really liked this, was never bored, and am disappointed to hear that people left at the interval. Great acting, great atmosphere. I would personally like to rip the stool off the stage and throw it under the drum revolve though, what a heinous piece of set decoration for anyone in the first few rows. I was SO angry about the stool that I wrote a strongly worded letter to the national box office. To their credit they sent me a credit note for the £30 I had spent on my two tickets. I am used to “slightly restricted” in the first few rows but this was just too much (I was in A19 so just below the stool!) So I was in B19, and it's not nearly as bad obviously, although there was an entire section of the play where I could not see one of the two people having a very intense conversation. The 3 seats in front of me were unoccupied, which to me suggests the patrons had been moved to different seats. Perhaps they've stopped allowing anyone to sit there.
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Post by Gwendoline on Aug 1, 2019 15:23:26 GMT
I saw this on Saturday matinee, and I quite liked it. Probably because I only paid £20 for row F stalls. As the Monkey says it’s wayyyyy too long, lots of shouting and my other complaint was that the auditorium was freezing. It was very warm outside so the difference in temperature was huge.
I like Roger Allam so I’m pleased I saw this , but I would have been very dissapointed if I paid £66 like my neighbour.
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Post by pledge on Aug 3, 2019 8:56:51 GMT
A rather soft-grained and underpowered production, I'm afraid, of a fierce and embittered play. I was lucky enough to see Jonathon Miller's production for Northern Broadsides a few years ago, which crackled with tension from the first line, and in which Barry Rutter gave the performance of a lifetime as an authentic Old Testament patriarch spitting fire and fury, every bit the equal of any of Ibsen's conflicted heroes. For me the rather twee folk-singers in the wings summed it up - a sentimental soft-focus on a play which is anything but sentimental - rather a fight to the death about money power and survival.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Aug 3, 2019 14:13:36 GMT
I really enjoyed this. Great acting in general but I thought Roger Allan wasn't sinister enough. Loved the set too.
A very interesting play written by a playwright I wasn't familiar with. Githa Sowerby's views on feminism, capitalism and patriarchal society come across quite strongly.
I read that the play premiered originally in 1912 at the Royal Court and later transferred to the Vaudeville theatre. That must have been quite an achievement for a female playwright at the time.
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