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Post by RedRose on Feb 3, 2016 22:53:21 GMT
The playwright intended to confuse the audience with that - was mentioned in an interview (cannot remember who said it where or when. Confuse us how? Not as he has done surely? Indeed! That! Poor Sally Rogers! She lets look it as if it is really fluffing! Shame I forgot the details of the interview! |
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Post by stefy69 on Feb 4, 2016 7:22:58 GMT
Saw the matinee yesterday and thought it was very very good really for me a play of two halves the second act being much stronger ( apart form the opening scene which was really well done )
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Post by Nelly on Feb 4, 2016 9:33:09 GMT
While we're on physicality - anyone else find some of Pierrepoint's barbs at Harry a bit misplaced? Seem to remember he used 'fat' a lot - but Morrissey clearly isn't, and neither do I remember Harry wearing a 'big fat smile' at any point? Yes! He definitely kept referring to him as fat which I also found really odd. |
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Post by viserys on Feb 4, 2016 9:47:59 GMT
Confuse us how? Not as he has done surely? Indeed! That! Poor Sally Rogers! She lets look it as if it is really fluffing! Shame I forgot the details of the interview! Hmm, I've kept thinking about the line and I wonder if it's not a problem with the delivery. It might be intended that Alice mutters "This is a circus..." as an unconscious slip of the tongue, disliking the pub, its clients (who according to their own words come more to gawp at the former hangman than for the drinks) and so on, then corrects herself to "This is a pub..." because she remembers the stiff upper lip thing. But I may be overthinking it. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 13:28:32 GMT
In the end I just found it quite funny, because there were a few sentences constructed the same way and they kept making me think of Bones McCoy in Star Trek - "I'm a Doctor, not a (whatever)."
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Post by kathryn on Feb 13, 2016 23:13:06 GMT
Has anyone dayseated recently? Planning on trying next Saturday and trying to figure out what time to arrive.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 13, 2016 23:42:37 GMT
I went three weeks ago and at 8AM there were already 7 people queuing
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Post by kathryn on Feb 14, 2016 11:50:54 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 14, 2016 12:39:39 GMT
Has it been selling out?
Off to see it tomorrow.. Can't wait
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 16, 2016 22:51:21 GMT
LOVED this. Great set. Great performances- particularly Johnny Flynn.. Wonderful.
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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 17, 2016 23:37:16 GMT
Very late to the party with this. Really excellent play - shades of Joe Orton - loved the black comedy. Great period settings, staging and costumes, lighting, sound effets and performances. Some huge laughs.
5 stars!!
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Post by kathryn on Feb 20, 2016 18:36:53 GMT
We loved this! My friend was third the queue at 7:30, by the way.
The front row is a fab place to watch it from - never sat there before, the row curves so even at the end of the row you're facing towards the stage.
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Post by Jon on Feb 20, 2016 18:44:46 GMT
I really enjoyed it when I saw this a few weeks back. The stand out is definitely Johnny Flynn.
I wonder if a Broadway transfer is on the cards, I imagine it won't be for a while since David Morrisey will be filming series 2 of The Missing after the West End run closing.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 20, 2016 20:36:58 GMT
Ben Brantley (NY Times) has given it a great review. They must be looking into a NY transfer after that
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 22:31:40 GMT
Well, given some of the questions the protagonists face, it would certainly be interesting to see how it plays in a country that still has the death penalty...
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Post by kathryn on Feb 21, 2016 12:39:23 GMT
There were some Americans in the row directly behind us who didn't seen to enjoy it as much as we did - we thought the swearing might have been an issue, and the darkness, from what we overheard.
Not sure how well it would go down Stateside.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 13:20:42 GMT
The pub culture and relationships between the men in particular feel very British to me. So on that point too I wonder how well this would go down with a US audience. But I suppose there must have been other quintessentially British productions that have gone to Broadway...?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 21, 2016 14:51:34 GMT
Charles III?
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Post by mallardo on Feb 21, 2016 15:08:12 GMT
Most of Martin McDonagh's plays have played on Broadway and mostly with great success. And it's not as if the Death Penalty isn't an ongoing issue in the US. Many states, including New York and New Jersey, don't have it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 16:59:02 GMT
Yes, the death penalty thing is the one thing I think could be really interesting for the audience about a transfer.
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Post by joem on Feb 22, 2016 22:33:52 GMT
Finally got to see this and was especially looking forward to seeing David Morrissey on stage for the first time.
It has some very funny lines and starts off in a darkly atmospheric manner but the second half descends into Ortonesque black farce, and this is not necessarily a compliment.
I keep asking myself why you would bother to get a historical event, some historical figures and a very emotive issue and then use it basically as a back-drop for an extended stand-up sketch. Making fun of hanging? Peripherally. Not sure that this achieves its goal - if that was its goal - of influencing anyone's opinion on the death penalty. You can treat hangmen as jumped-up buffoons if you so wish but they were mere instruments of policy.
Funny in parts but irrelevant as social commentary. With a little tinkering the same play could have featured plumbers or plasterers.
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Post by DebbieDoesDouglas(Hodge) on Feb 23, 2016 9:14:39 GMT
Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it were sh*te
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 9:43:30 GMT
I thought it would have been more satisfying if it had come along ten years ago, but as an admitted fan of McDonagh, I didn't feel it brought anything new to the table, and in 2015/2016, I think it's bordering on the inexcusable to have a cast that is not only completely white but also has 10 male actors to only 2 female. Yes, given the historical context of this particular play I can see why the casting was so, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 11:25:53 GMT
For me, the slight disappointment was because Johnny Flynn was so good and his character was so dangerously interesting but there wasn't really quite an equal strength in David Morrissey and his character, I felt.
I hope the NT Live is satisfying. The meticulous design and the traditional drama should go down even better on the big screen than in the theatre, but it will be interesting to see whether people find it stagey in the cinema, or whether they just accept that feature and enjoy it as they would in the theatre.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 14:51:24 GMT
With a little tinkering the same play could have featured plumbers or plasterers. I read the play after seeing it, and was surprised how many "hang" idioms there were in the play. I assumed they were intentional, but I hadn't really been aware of them when watching it on stage. Maybe they weren't and I'm reading too much into it... |
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