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Post by Jon on May 22, 2023 21:49:25 GMT
Alice Orr-Ewing mentioned on Twitter she took over with just one rehearsal so I'm guessing there wasn't any cancelled performances, there wasn't an alternate Sybil before so I'm guessing she took over in the last week or so.
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Post by Jan on May 23, 2023 6:15:39 GMT
I don’t really get how the violent parts can be played for laughs? It's not so much that (although of course violence can be played for laughs, it's the basis of slapstick) it's more that there is quite a bit more violence than is in the text and of a more serious type (biting for example). I thought it was a valid take though. |
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Post by alessia on May 23, 2023 8:39:03 GMT
I am now very curious to read this and/or see a different version...to me the laughs stopped when he slapped her, and then afterwards she bites him but he did start it. So in the text there is no slapping? I need to go and read it. Because if there is, then the underlying toxicity is very much present. I suppose what I mean is, in a domestic/couple scenario, when there is a reference to violence, I can't find it funny- I suppose this has touched a nerve a bit for me because I had personal experience of this kind of thing.
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Post by capybara on May 23, 2023 21:47:01 GMT
Really enjoyed it and didn’t find the domestic violence overshadowed it, as some have said.
Stephen Mangan was great, with excellent comic timing as you’d expect.
But Rachael Stirling was the star for me. Absolutely delicious as Amanda.
Four stars.
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