Post by lynette on Feb 9, 2019 23:02:10 GMT
Sorry I didn’t take a programme but all the cast v competent. This play is set in modern day Denmark and is about two men who experienced the wartime Nazi occupation coming together to hack away at their experiences. David Bamber always worth a look though here he had a difficult role as a somewhat stereotyped elderly Jewish gentleman littering his speech with Yiddish words but he had some good laugh out loud lines. At the interval we were full of questions which we were happy to discuss with Neil from the Board who was sitting right next to me. The second half sparked much better, resolved some of the questions and actually had a few good moments.
Perhaps this play is too ambitious using as it does one big story, the Danish evacuation of the Jews in 1943 and then both marital and parental relationships mixed in and terrible guilt, hidden for forty years. So some lines were a bit clunky and repetitive and the plot devices were signalled heavily. And there was a passage about immigrants that didn’t hit the mark and could have been sorted more subtlely. Or just left out. Sometimes writers must trust the audience to 'get it' and also trust the actors to get it across without plonk, plonk in yer face out of character speeches.
The Park keeps coming up with plays worth seeing and has a very interesting season this spring and summer. And again, let me recommend the Cottage cafe next door.
Perhaps this play is too ambitious using as it does one big story, the Danish evacuation of the Jews in 1943 and then both marital and parental relationships mixed in and terrible guilt, hidden for forty years. So some lines were a bit clunky and repetitive and the plot devices were signalled heavily. And there was a passage about immigrants that didn’t hit the mark and could have been sorted more subtlely. Or just left out. Sometimes writers must trust the audience to 'get it' and also trust the actors to get it across without plonk, plonk in yer face out of character speeches.
The Park keeps coming up with plays worth seeing and has a very interesting season this spring and summer. And again, let me recommend the Cottage cafe next door.
