Young Vic 2017/18 Season

Well HG, it surely can't be the case that London audiences are more sophisticated and demanding, can it? So maybe - as in the case of a couple of recent plays at the Orange Tree, mentioned in another thread - it's simply a case of differing tastes. As after all, we are each still allowed our own opinion, aren't we, even if it's at variance with that of others?

Fortunately I lack all sophistication. I think we're on a quite genial discussion so far.

Parsley please share how you would have entertained us. A song and dance routine? A lecture? A bit of mime?

Various Bollywood songs

And routines

Some from Madonna

And my own version of 42nd street

Which Madonna era though? Only that will dictate whether it would be entertaining or not.

Goodness.

How To Win Against Parsley...

This review from telegraph says it all

The Telegraph reviwer doesn’t seem to realise the context of what he is watching, also he misses the whole point about high camp (not liking it is fine, but the outward display masking something else is the whole point, not a flaw).

Content dictates form, the content is the true story of a high camp outsider trying to put on classy productions and failing, which is what the audience are (somewhat knowingly) presented with. He doesn’t even get past the necessity of ‘content dictates form’.

Many will find its ostentatious flamboyance too much but you’d think a national reviewer would realise that the style is the whole point.

Exactly

And the show STILL
Looks

Misplaced and lost

Perhaps better in The Clare?

It’s a good lesson for
These

Crappy cheapy inferior

Fringe shows

Thinking they are worthy

Of anything meaningful

The WOS reviewer admits that their reaction was the antithesis of the audience. He actually pinpoints his own problem in the review but doesn’t seem to realise it. ‘Relentlessly self indulgent’, well, yes, because it is about a reckessly self indulgent figure and ‘too mannered’, I mean, have they never so much as looked up ‘camp’ in the dictionary? As I say, people will dislike it because they take against the style (which appears to be their real problem) but to misunderstand why it is the way it is, is just muddled thinking. Both The Telegraph and WOS used their first string reviewer for a previous review of it and both gave it five stars (Cavendish and Trueman) on the back of understanding the intent.