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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 14:48:29 GMT
Seems to be a fair few people pulling out of shows recently - James, Jemma Redgrave, Sarah Lancashire - hope all are okay.
They are probably lucky that Sam was in the play so there is the direct link to Alexander and he may have been reading through with her at home, so may be more up to speed than someone unconnected would be.
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Post by alece10 on Sept 13, 2017 17:11:24 GMT
He was in The Truth and was excellent
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Post by joem on Sept 13, 2017 21:57:47 GMT
Friday night cancelled. That's me missing out, probably. The Lie's loss is Mosquitoes' gain. |
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 14, 2017 13:41:24 GMT
I always imagine that high profile, excellent actors are working on projects pretty much back to back. It appears this isn't so as Alexander Hanson was presumably sitting at home unemployed with no work in the diary for several months in order to be free to do this at no notice. He was excellent in The Truth. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 14:50:35 GMT
I seem to recall an interview stating that Bond and Hanson try to alternate their projects so there's always someone available for the kids, I suppose they're a little less strict on that now both kids are in their 20s...
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Post by Junie on Oct 4, 2017 7:30:53 GMT
Has anyone been to see this yet?
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Post by dani on Oct 4, 2017 8:12:40 GMT
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Post by alece10 on Oct 4, 2017 9:28:00 GMT
I'm sure they must have had press night by now but I was looking online this morning and can't find a single major review.
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Post by gazzaw13 on Oct 4, 2017 9:35:32 GMT
I believe that Pres Night was postponed because of the cast change. I'm going tonight and will post my thoughts on Thursday.
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Post by quine on Oct 4, 2017 10:00:02 GMT
I really enjoyed this last night. Alex Hanson is very good. It is pretty much a two hander for the husband and wife team. Would have loved to see more of Alex Gilbreath as I've always enjoyed her voice.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 4, 2017 17:33:05 GMT
I'm sure they must have had press night by now but I was looking online this morning and can't find a single major review. Snap! Thought the original PN was last week, even with the cast change it surely must be this week? Im going next Friday and after seeing both Father and Mother, really looking forward to it. |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 5, 2017 5:28:32 GMT
Saw this on Sunday, preferred it over its natural partner The Truth a similar farce on marital infidelities.
Alexander Hanson brilliant as the ‘thunderstruck’ husband ably supported by the reaction of the married couples in the audience.
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 5, 2017 6:51:23 GMT
It's a real shame they don't do midweek matinees in my view.
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Post by gazzaw13 on Oct 6, 2017 7:18:02 GMT
Saw this on Wednesday. It's very much like The Truth and I think people either like it or hate it - difficult to be indifferent. My wife hated it and I liked it. One off-putting thing is that Alex Hanson has obviously watched too many episodes of Fawlty Towers as he channels his inner Basil Fawlty and Sam Bond is morphing into Dame Judi Dench - not just physically but in her voice and mannerisms. Overall the Cleese/Dench show is a clever fun evening at the theatre.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 13, 2017 20:49:37 GMT
Just saw this. What fun! Shut your eyes and you would swear Bond was Judi Dench. Def one for couples, huge roars of recognition from the audience. Only downside the luminous Alex Gilbreath wasted in a small role.
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Post by mallardo on Oct 14, 2017 15:29:18 GMT
There's a moment at the end of this play when you realize just how well named it is. So well named, in fact, that if you were to watch it all over again - armed with this knowledge - what you'd be seeing is something almost new. For the words and actions of the characters would take on an entirely different meaning.
What a clever writer Florian Zeller is. Not only does he write great scenes - hilarious and dramatic at the same time - full of great dialogue (kudos to translator Christopher Hampton) but he's got so many tricks up his sleeve that one never quite knows where one is - in the best of all possible ways. This is his trickiest play yet, much more so than The Truth with which it must inevitably be paired.
Not wishing to give anything away I'll leave it there. Suffice to say this is an excellent production from the reliable Lindsay Posner featuring an ideal cast. The fact that Alex Hanson and Samantha Bond are married in real life as well as on stage adds an extra frisson - and both are superb, as are Tony Gardner and Alexandra Gilbreath although, as martin1965 has noted, the latter has little to do.
If you haven't booked for this I would wholeheartedly recommend that you do so while there's time. There are not many evenings at the theatre as smart and as funny - and as true - as this one.
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Post by joem on Nov 3, 2017 22:27:36 GMT
Enjoyable play, cleverly written (as seems to be Zeller's wont) with a far sprinkling of laughs. I think I preferred The Truth, this has a rtaher contrived feel and the revelations can be seen coming from over the horizon. Sometimes Zeller reminds me of Ayckbourn, in the way he constructs family/friendships in a familiar yet theatrical manner. Which is slgihtly odd given that he comes from a different culture.
Well acted, as you would expect, although Alexandra Gilbreath seems slightly wasted here. I wish James Dreyfus the very best but wonder how credible he would have been in the part taken on by Alexander Hanson.
The four plays performed in UK seem to have a very distinct style. It will be interesting to see if he sticks to this or branches out into different stuff in the future.
For the Chocolate Menier haters... £4 for a six page programme may well make it the most expensive programme by weightin the whole of London.
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