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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 9, 2021 21:47:14 GMT
Relatively Speaking
Definitely hit the spot tonight, with all the serious plays around it was just great to leave the brain at the door and just let the laughter flow.
Cannot beat an Ayckbourn to bring a smile to your face, cannot remember the last time I was in a Theatre full of laughter.
Shame it was the last performance but do wish for some more Ayckbourn revivals in the near future.
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Post by tmesis on Oct 10, 2021 11:37:34 GMT
Totally agree - was at yesterday's matinee; It was very funny, with a near perfect cast and spot on production. I actually feel it deserves some sort of transfer. I'd never seen this early Ayckbourn play until yesterday but it left me feeling hugely impressed, not just at the way the humour develops as the tension increases but just at his brilliant technical skill in pulling it off.
I too hope we get more Ayckbourn revivals but in London (may be less so in the provinces) he seems to be out of favour - at The National in the past 20 years there have only been two revivals: Season's Greetings and Small Family Business.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 10, 2021 12:16:19 GMT
Totally agree - was at yesterday's matinee; It was very funny, with a near perfect cast and spot on production. I actually feel it deserves some sort of transfer. I'd never seen this early Ayckbourn play until yesterday but it left me feeling hugely impressed, not just at the way the humour develops as the tension increases but just at his brilliant technical skill in pulling it off. I too hope we get more Ayckbourn revivals but in London (may be less so in the provinces) he seems to be out of favour - at The National in the past 20 years there have only been two revivals: Season's Greetings and Small Family Business. Seasons greetings is not a strong play. I remember SG & Business both struggling to find praise and the latter an audience |
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Post by Jan on Oct 10, 2021 13:59:15 GMT
I too hope we get more Ayckbourn revivals but in London (may be less so in the provinces) he seems to be out of favour - at The National in the past 20 years there have only been two revivals: Season's Greetings and Small Family Business. They did House & Garden too but that wasn't technically a revival I suppose. With the miserablist Norris at the helm they won't be doing any more, that's for certain. The RSC did one of his plays once too, that was when they used to do a few new plays. Somewhere like the Orange Tree might oblige though they seem unduly fixated on Rattigan and the hopeless old windbag Shaw. |
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Post by showgirl on Oct 10, 2021 14:04:50 GMT
SG may not be a atrong play but it is very popular, especially, of course, around Christmas. Though the quality of the plays varies, I think a lot also depends on the production and cast, as I've seen a play I didn't rate the first time round lifted in a subsequent version by the casting and director; Nicholas Le Prevost, for instance, in the London 2016 run of How The Other Half Loves.
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