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Post by crabtree on Jul 13, 2017 17:41:19 GMT
Anyone seen this at the royal exchange , with frantic assembly and the Manchester International festival. Full marks for the staging and visceral chanting, and yes it's great to tell a story lifting the actors high in the air, or balancing on a ladder, and dancing in huddles, but I'm afraid the stories of fathers were mostly dull. As I sit here I can't remember any of the stories except one about a firefighter finding a melted body. It sort of reminded me of a raw Chorus Line but with paternal stories, and an equally spectacular ending.
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Post by harlow on Jul 13, 2017 23:46:53 GMT
Transferring next year at the Lyric - hoping to catch it there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 15:36:28 GMT
Transferring next year at the Lyric - hoping to catch it there. Lyric Hammersmith as part of LIFT 2018 next summer. |
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Post by dontdreamit on Jun 2, 2018 18:58:26 GMT
We went to see this last night. Some bits were very good - my other half is from one of the 3 towns talked about, so a lot of what was talked about in the performance resonated with us. Some of it I felt was just too self- indulgent and I never really cared enough about any of the characters. And I didn’t like the chanting, but that’s probably just my personal taste as it did fit in with the piece.
But it was a lot funnier than I thought it would be, and a different kind of performance for me to go and watch. In the past I’ve only really watched musicals so am trying to branch out a bit! And I’d not been to the Lyric Hammersmith before, and liked the juxtaposition of the modern exterior with the beautiful original interior.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jun 3, 2018 0:38:03 GMT
It's an odd duck. Did anyone catch the podcast Simon Stephens did with Chris Thorpe, that ended with them rowing? (Incredibly uncomfortable to listen to.) At one point Thorpe says, "I've seen Fatherland, I know how much you hate yourself." I listened to the podcast before seeing the play. May have coloured my interpretation.
A moving and beautiful verbatim play about fathers and sons, and ordinary British citizens, slowly becomes more about Simon Stephens' inner demons. Which is then subverted into a cheap gag about football. I can get over the self-indulgence of the three writers placing themselves as characters. But Stephens' character dominates the three disproportionately. Structurally it's all over the place but perhaps that's the intention.
Liked the flying song. Didn't get the Les Miserables aesthetic in that one scene.
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Post by dramallama on Jun 3, 2018 10:55:25 GMT
It's an odd duck. Did anyone catch the podcast Simon Stephens did with Chris Thorpe, that ended with them rowing? (Incredibly uncomfortable to listen to.) At one point Thorpe says, "I've seen Fatherland, I know how much you hate yourself." I listened to the podcast before seeing the play. May have coloured my interpretation. I listened to that and oh my, it was cringey. I got the vibe that Chris Thorpe did not want to be there at all and was trying whatever he could to start a fight, and Simon Stephens wasn't handling it particularly well. I'm a little bit gutted to be missing this (living up in Scotland I can't really just dash down to see any play I'm interested in) but I have the play text on my to read pile so will hopefully catch up with it soon (obviously, nowhere near the same as seeing the actual thing). |
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