Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour

Drama hasn't been the arbiter of morality for most of its long life and when it has it's been pretty dull and reactionary. Religion may have become less important in people's lives and politics somehow unimportant to them but those are the places to go if you want to be instructed in morality.

Theatre is a terrible hobby for perfectionists, aesthetic or moral.

I saw this tonight - best bits by far were the songs. Great singing and great harmonies. The rest of it left me a bit baffled. For something that won Best New Comedy at the Oliviers, it was remarkably unfunny. The bits that were meant to be serious were fine, but the rest of it was just not to my tastes. I also got lost as to whether they were portraying their main characters, or other characters. Overall, I was a bit disappointed, especially considering the rave reviews it's been getting.

Oh no.
I'm flying to London in 2 days and planned to see it on Saturday afternoon because of rave reviews but having read this thread, I'm not so convinced anymore... What do I see instead? (Feeling tempted to return to the Young Vic and embark on a journey through galaxies with Brendan Cowell, but...).
Or should I still go?

if it helps, I bloody loved it. Yes it's rude and crude, and doesn't take itself too seriously, but if that's your type of humour too then you'll have nae bother.

It's great to take note of the opinions of others, but never let anyone put you off seeing a show if it's one your instincts tell you that you'll enjoy!

Go with your instinct- if you liked the sound of it enough to want to book, go and see it! 

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That's my problem with this play - the ladette stereotype is outdated and just as insulting towards women as some of the 'old, white, male' plays. And it put me off seeing this. I didn't know anyone like that growing up, and my impression of young folk these days is that they've rejected that approach to life, being less likely to drink and have casual sex, and far more concerned with social justice?

But if it's a good laugh, fair enough!

Have you even seen Cursed Child or Matilda? Both heavily feature rebellious children who take matters into their own hands instead of buckling down and quietly doing what they're told.

The History Boys?

Have to agree with Parsley - with one exception - no hysterical laughing on the night I went - the hysteria replaced, in the circle at least, by stony silence - with the exception of a small group who laughed at literally every line, to the extent we began to think they'd been planted tthere to drum up enthusiasm.
The story was paper thin, the play populated with stereotypical cardboard characters: tough one with heart of gold, large funny one, A star student gone bad etc. Nothing new or empowering to be found here. The dialogue at times was cringeworthy... the 'poignant' monologues awkward iand unbelievable. It reminded me of an overlong sketch in search of a cohesive plot, like a half finished improvised student revue. Crude story topped by a cruder story all seemingly having very little point except to shock became very tedious very quickly.
Anyone who can drink the amount they were supposed to be drinking onstage in the period supposedly covered wouldn't be drunk and having a wild time... they'd be dead.
A night with Our Ladies was like being trapped stone cold sober on day two of a hen party bender - everyone working too hard at having a WILD TIME, slightly amusing things becoming hysterically funny, the pseudo 'intellectual' insights, the boring tearful ramblings after one too many.
The actresses themselves were plainly talented and had beautiful voices - the songs being the saving grace - but they had so very little in the way of real dialogue and character development to work with that any empathy or interest in their lives was completely lost. A few people left. Confusingly this seems to have been marketed as a musical and the leaflet gives ticket offers for schools. Be interested to hear what age they would expect this to be suitable for.

I thought it was a fantastic and thought provoking play, and both the singing and acting of a very high standard.

Having read the mixed reviews here I went with trepidation yesterday but thoroughly enjoyed it! The comparisons to The History Boys are easy and obvious but it felt fresh and new and incredibly well acted and put together.

I do agree that they could have dropped slightly less swear words but thats probably just my inner prude talking, and I suppose it is capturing naturalistic dialogue of that age and location category?