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Post by paplazaroo on Oct 6, 2017 19:10:38 GMT
This definitely wasn't my cup of tea. Mercifully short at 55 minutes but boy did it feel longer! 2 characters act out an average night at home while delivering intercut separate monologues to the audience. Still not exactly sure what they were about, Jonjo's I believe was about shooting a protester and I think Sharon's might have been about having a brain haemorrhage but both were so wordy, overwritten and pretentious that I kept zoning out.
If I sit and think really hard maybe there's an abstract point about cognitive dissonance. I'm not sure. Can't imagine it being a smash unless I've missed the point massively. Shame because I loved Confirmation and the cast are both highly competent.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Oct 8, 2017 10:27:46 GMT
I liked it. I didn't fully understand it but I liked it. It's good to see something properly challenging and intellectual and not straightforward and naturalistic on a main stage in London. I'm going to be thinking about this one and working it out in pieces for a while.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 8, 2017 10:32:55 GMT
What and where? Details please!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Oct 8, 2017 10:35:52 GMT
Royal Court.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 8, 2017 10:52:43 GMT
Since seeing on Friday being thinking about the play a lot more than I thought I would when I left.
Initially thought it had overstayed its welcome, even though it was only an hour long as some of the soliloquies were overlong and incoherent.
On reflection, a very clever way to depict the cosseted lives we live in the West (the evening routine, playing X Box, eating Pizza etc was wonderfully choreographed) with the lives in war torn areas.
Worth seeing but do not expect too many laughs.
As a two-hander with B, preferred Victory Condition.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Oct 10, 2017 10:43:15 GMT
Pretty awful reviews for this one.
It's confusing to watch. Reading the play is much clearer. Once you accept the plot has no connection to the setting and action onstage, and the two characters are speaingk separate and unrelated monologues, it's much easier to understand.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 3:04:31 GMT
I liked it. I didn't fully understand it but I liked it. It's good to see something properly challenging and intellectual and not straightforward and naturalistic on a main stage in London. I'm going to be thinking about this one and working it out in pieces for a while. And impeccably acted (Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Jonjo O'Neill), designed (Chloe Lamford, Lizzie Powell and Gareth Fry), directed (Vicky Featherstone), as well as written (Chris Thorpe). And, as well as being not straightforward and naturalistic, it's also naturalistic at the same time.
I found this very hard work to watch, in a worthwhile way, mostly!
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