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Post by zahidf on Feb 5, 2024 6:38:08 GMT
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Post by greenandbrownandblue on Feb 5, 2024 7:26:42 GMT
Reviews of the US run starring Bryan Cranston of all people aren't very positive regarding the play itself...
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 5, 2024 22:27:51 GMT
Sounds terrible.
What has happened to this theatre? Have they all given up?
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Post by zahidf on Feb 12, 2024 7:55:39 GMT
starring Julian Ovenden & Tanya Franks
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 12, 2024 11:01:34 GMT
I had an email about this earlier today. The first thing to strike me was the advice bar running across the top of the booking page, which states the running time is 1 hr 45 mins without an interval. No latecomers, no readmissions and no refunds to latecomers.
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Post by tmesis on Feb 26, 2024 7:30:38 GMT
Giles Terera now confirmed for this.
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 26, 2024 10:47:07 GMT
Barely compliant with the Equality Act. They are free of ACE so their choice. Miserable policy.
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Post by Dave B on Mar 18, 2024 20:14:54 GMT
A lot of offers flooding in today for this through the end of the month.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2024 14:43:20 GMT
I saw it in LA. Even met the cast. Still two stars from me. Dull. Already outdated. Baffling decision by Menier. The kind of play people who don't like plays think plays are like.
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Post by Jan on Mar 20, 2024 15:48:09 GMT
Barely compliant with the Equality Act. They are free of ACE so their choice. Miserable policy. How is the Equalities Act relevant ? |
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Post by jaggy on Mar 20, 2024 19:23:52 GMT
A lot of offers flooding in today for this through the end of the month. Where are the ticket offers? I hate how expensive the Menier is. |
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Post by chameleon1 on Mar 20, 2024 23:56:41 GMT
this play makes no sense at all. starts of looking like it might be some kind of debate about free speech (though set in a harvard like no harvard the usa has ever known) and then wanders off down some strange plot rabbit-holes, with a couple of unlikley reversals and pointless flash-backs, and ends with a joke about a pirate. why? good question. the acting is ok, given the characters act in ways that make no sense. the set needs a lot of pushing around. one star, for luck.
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Post by Dave B on Mar 21, 2024 8:18:27 GMT
A lot of offers flooding in today for this through the end of the month. Where are the ticket offers? I hate how expensive the Menier is. Several of the seatfilling companies instead have 'Discounted' tickets available through the end of the month. Central, AC and SFF. |
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Post by tmesis on Mar 30, 2024 21:46:28 GMT
I found this pretty tedious and a waste of an excellent cast.
It’s all about the fall out from inviting a white supremacist to talk at a Harvard symposium. Frankly I couldn’t give a toss.
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 1, 2024 9:19:53 GMT
In time, there will be interesting analysis of this period in USA history - when younger generations were compensating and over-compensating for the reluctance of previous generations - but from this side of the water, I'm inclined to let them work through all this and read scholarly reflections in a decade or two. In a sense, it is apropos to this side of the pond insomuch as the Menier is putting this on while practising ignorance and arguably bigotry towards people like me.
Anyway, I have said enough about that now.
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Post by Dave B on Apr 1, 2024 12:35:35 GMT
I was entertained enough throughout for it not to be tedious but I can very much see how someone else might have found it tedious.
The plot and parts of the script are tedious and I don't think the play realises that the audience are not laughing along with it but laughing at it in more than once place. A lot of the dialogue works pretty well and zips along but the twists through the time jump explanations just feel a bit dull and formulaic. Like this had to be written as a thriller to get made rather than an exploration of free speech on its own.
The set is pretty impressive for the space, distinct changes to bring in 5 locations and lots of things smartly just turning or reversing to show something else.
The cast are mostly highly enjoyable and Giles Terera has a couple of excellent scenes, his final scene in the bar was enough fun that I was happy enough with my ticket.
It is clearly not selling hugely well with a lot of £15 offers around. I ended up second row about a third of the way in and so I can't really complain.
At that price and with the cast, I'm going with three stars.
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Post by tmesis on Apr 1, 2024 13:03:20 GMT
Apart from a first rate cast - Terera was, as ever, hugely charismatic - the best thing about this was the set.
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Post by joem on Apr 13, 2024 20:36:06 GMT
I'm going to go against the grain here - I enjoyed this. I thought the plot, if it stumbled a bit, tried to frame the story in such a way that it could engage in a debate of relevance to today's society - within the constraints that such a society imposes on debate. Yes, it does end up being more thriller than play of ideas but not completely. There is enough meat on these bones to justify the play's existence and staging.
Good cast all round but Giles Terera shines in everything he does. He must be well on course to getting towards the top echelon of active theatre actors. Go Giles go!!!
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Post by luvvie23 on Apr 13, 2024 21:06:38 GMT
I'm going to go against the grain here - I enjoyed this. I thought the plot, if it stumbled a bit, tried to frame the story in such a way that it could engage in a debate of relevance to today's society - within the constraints that such a society imposes on debate. Yes, it does end up being more thriller than play of ideas but not completely. There is enough meat on these bones to justify the play's existence and staging. Good cast all round but Giles Terera shines in everything he does. He must be well on course to getting towards the top echelon of active theatre actors. Go Giles go!!! I am with you in agreement here. Really enjoyed it. Tanya Franks is underrated as an actress. Brilliant in this. Julian Ovenden great. Giles always outstanding, |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 16, 2024 10:12:02 GMT
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Post by mkb on Apr 24, 2024 12:43:35 GMT
I can't say I didn't enjoy this, but it is lazily plotted with much suspension of disbelief required and the occasional cringe-worthy line. It benefits from good performances and a set that is quite extravagantly detailed. The essential problem is that the play sets out to be about the limits of free speech, but very quickly gives that up for a sort of low-key, who-did-what? thriller. If you are going to explore whether people with extreme views should be given a platform in academic circles, then do so. Don't suddenly shift the goalposts by changing the motivation of the person hiring the speaker from being about free speech to actually being about a self-serving interest. Three stars. One act: 15:00-16:36 (Seen Saturday 20 April, 2024) The script appeared to have a natural break where an interval would have (a) boosted Menier funds at the bar, and (b) meant we had to sit through one fewer scenery change, aside from the courtesy of providing a toilet break of course. |
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Post by galinda on May 9, 2024 20:17:49 GMT
Anyone know if the playtext for this has been published?
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 9, 2024 20:20:21 GMT
Anyone know if the playtext for this has been published? I don’t know, no |
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Post by anthony40 on May 9, 2024 20:29:04 GMT
Try the National Theatre shop.
Usually, whatever play is currently running, regardless of which theatre- if it'd been published, it will be displayed.
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Post by galinda on May 10, 2024 16:36:01 GMT
Try the National Theatre shop. Usually, whatever play is currently running, regardless of which theatre- if it'd been published, it will be displayed. Thank you I’ll check there! |
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