Doctor Faustus

Fair enough. I've never seen a production of it I've really, really liked, though my favourite was probably Jude Law's at the Young Vic. There was some great staging in that (Annette Badland played the pope) and Law really shone in a couple of the speeches. The worst was Barry Kyle's RSC production many years ago with Gerard Murphy. There was one great image of David Bradley as Mephistopheles, screaming, in a loin cloth (at least that's my memory - I hope I haven't confused it with an after show party) but the rest was truly painful. I only paid £15 for my tickets for this one, so I'm hoping I like it enough for that - judging from the production photos I've seen and Steve's critique it might work for me on a visual level so if I treat it like an art installation rather than a proper play I shouldn't be too sad? (I'm trying to cheer myself up about having booked for this. Overall I've had a great 2016 in terms of theatre-going, but I may be descending a slippery slope now. )

This evening cancelled too. Wouldn't have thought it would take this long to clean up after Ryan

Here's a cute pic of Kit Harrington with fans after cancelled performances: www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/doctor-faustus-cancelled-due-to-flood_40341.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=30apr2016

Could easily be a plumbing problem - burst pipe or blocked drain.

I was also hit by the flood cancellation which came too late to see anything else in the West End because everything else (except some of the longrunning dross) also starts at 14:30.

Isn't it Jamie Lloyd?

One star Observer
One star Sunday Express
One star Mail On Sunday
One star Daily Express
Two stars Guardian
Two stars FT
Two stars Telegraph
Two stars WOS
Two stars Metro
Two stars Daily Mail
Two stars British Theatre
Two stars Evening Standard
Three stars The Stage
Three stars Time Out
Three stars Indepedent
Four stars Times

Bend It
Bend it

Stand up
Stand up
And sing
Stand up
And sing

Also Jamie Lloyd blocked me on Twitter

What a knob

Bend it bend it
Truth can take it

Poor Kit Harrington

Poor Jenna Russell

Poor Jade Anouka

It makes me proud of my own job when I see shows as sh*t as this one because even when I take a dump it is of better quality than what Jamie Lloyd can direct

"A dismal rehash"
"A mish mash"

"Clumsy"

Jesminder
Remember
WHO you are



I dare someone to run on stage and open their bowels

The director will think it is amazing

And the cast can rub it over their faces

There are so many knobbish elements in this show

So many naked bodies on display

People vomiting faeces

From a grown man with children

It's pathetic and possibly the first show I can recall which is going to be unable to display a single set of "stars" rating in any publicity or outside the theatre

I have edited the post

Sorry for any offence

But the true trolling comes from waste like this filling our theatres
I don't see that because people pay money to attend rubbish like this show that my posts are any less worthy than it is


My posts are hardly trolling

Thank you and good night

It's just the show was SO ugly

That it made everyone in it seem so too

Have you see it?

It is worth it in order to put theatre into perspective

They have red lighting in the foyer

And pop music playing in the theatre

Awful songs

I thought you were and Angel
You were the devil

This sort of thing

It is not going to attract new audiences

Just gullible young people who will get their parents to pay for them

Do you think in 20 years time THEY in turn will pay £90 for their own children to see this kind of waste?

In principle I agree with your sentiment

But we all know the reality

They have used a moderately attractive young man with average acting skills to lure an audience to a pile of rubbish

The method and means don't justify it

It's like trying to use a boy band to hand out drugs

And then validate it

If it takes this sort of desperation to attract a "new" audience I would rather they stayed at home and didn't go to the theatre at all

Furthermore the actor in question and the "director" have( one could argue) a responsibility to offer theatre of the highest quality

The girls sitting next to me didn't even understand any of the dialogue in the first act
How is that likely to make them go to the theatre again for its intrinsic essence as an art unless the next flavour of the month is appearing in it? - they are better off saving to see Beyonce or Rhianna
They at least have a message which resonates with young people and captures their love and imagination

If you want true engagement with new audiences see what Almeida are doing with Boy

This is meaningful and worthy

All I know is that I would not have been impressed with this when I was a teenager

And none of my friends with children would take them to such lowly rubbish

A parent who thinks this show is suitable for young adults needs to question their taste in art as well as their moral fabric

And these same children should not be watching Game Of Thrones either

Please sister

See it and report back

Sometimes we need to advise people though

Many patients come to see me and tell me they eat 10 doughnuts and they like them

And I tell them they are tasty I agree

But that they have given them
diabetes

And therefore they need to reassess the situation based on my advice

After you see it

I doubt you will use the terms "serious" or "dramatic" with respect to the show