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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 11:36:40 GMT
To kathryn and Steve relating to the stats you're discussing. My recent 'job from hell' meant I had the misfortune to encounter such cases. This is anecdotal, as I don't have the information to hand I'd say the stats of women calling police are actually fairly low. More often any reports prior to either a murder or some other conviction come from other sources- friends, neighbours etc. Anyway that's my random 2 cents having accidentally found myself in such a job, however briefly. (I have't seen the play so can't comment on the bearing there)
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Post by kps on Mar 12, 2018 17:03:06 GMT
welcome to the board kps , and thanks for an excellent summary . know how likely it is to get tickets through this way Exactly the same as any other returns line - pure luck. Keep hitting the Royal Court website, as seats do appear. I know the day before I went, there were still 2 stalls on sale there, for example. No, thank you, Monkey. Your excellent website is my first port of call whenever I book at a new theatre. Keep up the excellent work!
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Post by peggs on Mar 12, 2018 21:17:26 GMT
I found this really impactful. I am not sure if Mulligan’s performance has grown since earlier in the run, and that has made the difference, but I found the funny bits at the start genuinely funny, thought she made a good connection to the audience as a storyteller, and the end pretty devastating. I loved the character’s chutzpah and the way her career affected how she told her story - she felt like a complete, rounded, consistent character. I see some have complained about the lack of ‘drama’, but that is sort of the point - she makes documentaries, not dramas, and the piece is all about her, not about her husband. This one is going to stay with me. Have similar views to kathryn, I was surprised by how funny the start was but quickly engaged, for me CM held my attention and I thought worked well in the sort of stand up role, holding the audience. As it progressed I wondered what it would have been like if they had kept the house lights on so we weren't hidden in the darkness and would have had to face the relationships progress visibly. I had prior knowledge of one of the scenes (thanks to jadnoop who enabled me to make a decision as to whether it was something I would be able to deal with or not) which did inevitably influence my response but sat with fingers firmly in ears but knowing the words being said I watched the sudden stillness of the audience, it was clear from that and people's responses afterwards that for some at least it came as a surprise and there was that complicit feel when you've been happily laughing at something one minute and then found it has horribly changed. I rather liked the two different ways of re-telling the story and was fascinated by what was coloured each time in those bleached scenes. I have to admit I didn't click watching it of any difference in the portrayal of behaviour or treatment of the children on a gender basis, it was only post watching reading reviews and on here that I went ohhhhh. I sit and wonder of the class for want of another word of the writer, though whether that was influenced by the chat on here before about the character and the actress playing it which much more sense when watching, I don't know. I loved Carey Mulligan, I found her illuminous some years back in Skylight, very difficult to not watch all the time so this worked for me as there were no other actors I was short changing by not watching. As for the play, it was by no means perfect but thought provoking and niggly in my head though one of those one impossible to explain to other people without convincing them you have a morbid taste in theatre.
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Post by Rory on Apr 30, 2018 22:42:00 GMT
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