’night, Mother - Hampstead

'Tell me more, tell me more .... '

They don't mind a two-hander there, do they.

I am there. The theatre is about a 20 minute walk for me.

(Despite her obvious plastic surgery) Rizzo hanging out in my neighbourhood; there are worse things I could do!

See what I did there?

There Are Worse Things I Could Do is the song that she sings as Rizzo in Grease

Thanks for the book recommendation kit66 - I'll look out for a copy.

Looking forward to these. Have booked my ticket for both 'night, Mother and Peggy for You.

Does anyone who has been to the Hampstead before know why row M in the arcade is cheaper than row N? I'm booking a christmas present for a friend and I to take a trip but I don't want to give her a no leg room experience or anything.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks very much Mark and kit66 I have bought the more expensive ones (big spender, obviously) as it's Christmas and my friend is short!

Oddly uninvolving: it can be a shattering play, but above all it's a small-scale intimate piece which depends on a sense of claustrophobia: on a huge empty set on a (comparatively) huge stage the play looked a bit lost. Worse, somehow the production never quite caught fire - something was not quite right with the chemistry of casting, design and direction -t never quite adds up to the sum of its parts. I wouldn't say Stockard Channing exactly walked through her role, but I've definitely seen it played with more involvement, while to my mind Rebecca Night never really conveyed the underlying despair of her character: I know it's all presented in a deliberately matter-of-fact manner, but the best performances hint at an overwhelming darkness beneath. It's revealing that at a couple of the most intense moments someone next to me giggled rather than gasped, and the final climax felt, well, anti-climactic. A textbook example, I suspect, of how a production can look promising on paper, but then not quite come to life...Having said that, plenty of cheers at the curtain call, but a lot of shaking heads on the way out...

What's the running time for this please?

Adding to what pledge has already written, I didn’t connect with this too well at all and it took a while to get going, but then never really ignited.

This won the Pulitzer? If there’s an outstanding play in there I didn’t see it tonight unfortunately. Stockard Channing was fine, although I liked her more in Apologia. Rebecca Night though I thought was pretty one tone throughout and never really connected with the text.

Disappointing really. The quality of “acting” compared to Love and Other Acts is like chalk and cheese. I never truly believed this was mother and daughter speaking to each other.

Ah, don't be so hard on Hampstead, londonpostie: they also put on "Big Big Sky" (which was beautiful!) and are bringing in Katie Mitchell to direct!

But, yes, when something is bad, it's bad.
And, of course, I have a ticket to see this soon with a friend - which is a birthday present to make up for last year's birthday plans that fell through, even though my new birthday is just around the corner!