Of Kith and Kin, Bush

Totally agree! !saw this tonight and thought it was excellent. Probably my favourite play this year along with Barbershop Chronicles. It puts you through the emotional wringer but is not hysterical in the way that I found Yerma. It is a complex and intelligent play with fantastic performances. Hope the reviews are good. Try to get hold of a ticket.

Where was this review? Am interested to read it. I honestly think that audiences are going to love this play no matter what snooty critics say. Hope it sells out.

Having now seen this, primed with a selection of views, it absolutely lived up to my expectations and I agree with Lyn Gardner, who started her Guardian review by saying:

"A play can be thoroughly enjoyable even if its plot and the way its characters behave don’t quite stack up."

She goes on to explain this and to repeat it at the end, presumably because she wants to emphasise both aspects:

"The play, like its characters, is flawed, but it’s watchable and (has) a fine cast."

So yes, I think she was completely correct on both counts and I'd have loved a Q and A with the cast - and writer and director - to try to explore these issues tactfully(!), but I certainly enjoyed it and would recommend it with these caveats. It was enthusiastically received by a respectable but far-from-full house, so I hope it gets more support as the run continues.

Btw, for anyone interested: I booked one of the Bush's new "Count Me In" seats, which are cheaper (£10, so a steal for something this engaging and thought-provoking) and allocated by the theatre on the day. But as anyone who knows the venue will agree, there are no bad seats there and all are close to the action.

Well. I was emotionally drained. It's a very interesting premise and tries to address lots of issues (some more successfully than others) and you do go through the wringer but I'm not sure I was altogether happy with the denouement (ooh, get me going all continental) which I think was mainly because the main character of Daniel so unlikeable (to be honest none of them are particularly likeable). Having said that James Lance plays him extremely well. So well in fact that I caught myself siding with him at unexpected moments before snapping out of it again. You can see in his hands how such a manipulative bully gets by. He works for TFL too, no wonder they're always striking if they're all like him. Joshua Silver is just smashing, has lovely hair and wears a very nice snug pair of trousers which was delightful on a Saturday afternoon. He can squeeze my rubber duck anytime. Oooh matron.

Loved Donna Berlin as the Judge but I very much doubt that they are really that pithy, throwing out one-liners like she's at the Edinburgh Festival. Joanna Bacon was also great, simply for the fact that she made me absolutely hate her two characters. She seemed so smiley at the curtain call too.

And Joshua Silver is either a real Jessie J fan or he's been doing a lot of practice.

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