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Post by popcultureboy on Mar 19, 2018 22:47:53 GMT
Thanks on both. It was just that the audience was laughing so much that I thought I'd missed something there. What you missed was he asks her to get off his knee because her sitting on his lap has got him, well, over excited. When she moves to sit on the table, Mangan adjusts himself as if he's covering a certain tumescence in the groin region.... |
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Post by david on Apr 4, 2018 22:32:01 GMT
Saw this tonight via day-seating. For £15 not a bad view from the front row A17. Great ensemble piece with no real weak links and some really great comedy which is ultimately a very dark piece of drama.
Of the two Pinter productions to have graced the WE In the last 12 months, I actually got more out of this than No Mans Land as I felt the plot was easier to follow, though with NML I got a greater satisfaction seeing Stewart and McKellan at work with their verbal sparing rather than trying to understand what was happening. Even now I couldn’t explain to people who ask what the play was about!
What was interesting was listening to people’s comments about the piece of drama we had just watched. Comments ranged from really good to those who where left completely baffled by what they saw. Though overall, I suppose maybe that’s the whole point, everybody will take away something different, and draw their own conclusions about what the piece was about. At times I think that what makes a piece of good drama. It can be too easy to put a piece of drama on stage or tv and give you all the answers, whereas in the case of Pinter he makes you work as an audience member to try and make you think about the subject material and gets you to work just as hard as the actors performing the work.
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Post by Jan on Apr 5, 2018 8:28:39 GMT
Saw this tonight via day-seating. For £15 not a bad view from the front row A17. Great ensemble piece with no real weak links and some really great comedy which is ultimately a very dark piece of drama. Of the two Pinter productions to have graced the WE In the last 12 months, I actually got more out of this than No Mans Land as I felt the plot was easier to follow, though with NML I got a greater satisfaction seeing Stewart and McKellan at work with their verbal sparing rather than trying to understand what was happening. Even now I couldn’t explain to people who ask what the play was about! What was interesting was listening to people’s comments about the piece of drama we had just watched. Comments ranged from really good to those who where left completely baffled by what they saw. Though overall, I suppose maybe that’s the whole point, everybody will take away something different, and draw their own conclusions about what the piece was about. At times I think that what makes a piece of good drama. It can be too easy to put a piece of drama on stage or tv and give you all the answers, whereas in the case of Pinter he makes you work as an audience member to try and make you think about the subject material and gets you to work just as hard as the actors performing the work. I always suspect Pinter appeals most to people who really like theatre and go to theatre a lot, so they are familiar with the conventions he is playing with - same way that people who know a lot about music are the ones who like jazz whereas the casual listener mostly will not. |
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