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Post by pledge on Oct 23, 2021 22:01:03 GMT
Anyone else seen this? The play/production seems immensely pleased with itself, in a finger-wagging "You lazy Westerners should know about this" sort of way, but it's been a long time since I cared less about two characters on a stage. (And I saw Last Easter at the same theatre!) The production doesn't help - very in your face, but frequently confusing and hard to follow. Lots of baffling doubling of roles, and lots of Cast Narrating The Plot, telling the audience what to think. Quite a few shut eyes and gently nodding heads in the audience. A VERY long hundred plus minutes, in return for really not much...
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Post by showgirl on Oct 24, 2021 3:31:38 GMT
Bang on: I HATED it, am sure I nodded off at some points and was desperate to leave. And this was the only production from the new season which remotely appealed to me, whereas in the old days (when Sam Wlaters was the AD), it was rare for me to miss one.
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Post by Dave B on Oct 24, 2021 8:33:27 GMT
I had much entertainment from counting the number of people who fell asleep (5 at one point!) and the theatre was neither warm or stuffy.
The absolute highlight of the evening was as we left. An elderly lady walking out just in front of us suggested that she thought the commissioning director was the one that should have, link the CEO in the play, had a bag of rotten food thrown at them for selecting to put that on.
I laughed so much.
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Post by showgirl on Oct 24, 2021 14:06:25 GMT
In fairness to the cast of two, I should say they worked astonishingly hard. Just a shame it was also such hard work sitting through this and I hadn't a clue what was going on.
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Post by Jan on Oct 24, 2021 16:54:24 GMT
I had much entertainment from counting the number of people who fell asleep (5 at one point!) and the theatre was neither warm or stuffy. The absolute highlight of the evening was as we left. An elderly lady walking out just in front of us suggested that she thought the commissioning director was the one that should have, link the CEO in the play, had a bag of rotten food thrown at them for selecting to put that on. I laughed so much. The commissioning director sounds like they are labouring under the misapprehension that this is an ACE subsidised venue with all that entails. It isn’t. Just programme for the local audience - that means putting a Feydeau farce on every Xmas like they used to. |
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 24, 2021 17:30:28 GMT
I would imagine half the audience were even more befuddled when they worked out it wasn't Tim Rice on stage ..
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Post by cavocado on Oct 25, 2021 7:53:20 GMT
I had much entertainment from counting the number of people who fell asleep (5 at one point!) and the theatre was neither warm or stuffy. The absolute highlight of the evening was as we left. An elderly lady walking out just in front of us suggested that she thought the commissioning director was the one that should have, link the CEO in the play, had a bag of rotten food thrown at them for selecting to put that on. I laughed so much. The commissioning director sounds like they are labouring under the misapprehension that this is an ACE subsidised venue with all that entails. It isn’t. Just programme for the local audience - that means putting a Feydeau farce on every Xmas like they used to. Doesn't sound very appealing, but it's a co-production with the Actors' Touring Company, so presumably is part subsidised by their ACE grant. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 25, 2021 8:54:53 GMT
The commissioning director sounds like they are labouring under the misapprehension that this is an ACE subsidised venue with all that entails. It isn’t. Just programme for the local audience - that means putting a Feydeau farce on every Xmas like they used to. Doesn't sound very appealing, but it's a co-production with the Actors' Touring Company, so presumably is part subsidised by their ACE grant. I used to love ATC, in the 80s, when John Retallack was running it. |
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Post by tmesis on Nov 6, 2021 22:56:19 GMT
This was beyond awful - an excrutiating 100 minutes of torture.
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Post by showgirl on Nov 6, 2021 23:07:22 GMT
Well it was very brave of you to go, tmesis, in view of some of the comments above! |
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Post by tmesis on Nov 6, 2021 23:14:07 GMT
Well it was very brave of you to go, tmesis , in view of some of the comments above! Yes I was going to duck out of this and now wish I had - but I have a strange loyalty and affection for OT but they're going through a bad patch - Last Easter was execrable also. |
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Post by perfectspy on Nov 7, 2021 3:09:45 GMT
I saw this play on the Friday night. That was a long 90+ minutes. The story was hard to follow. Not very good.
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