Blue/ Orange

Come to think

As well as the original NT staging

I saw quite good version at the old Arcola

With all three roles taken by women

Worked much better

The fact is David Haig is a mediocre acting coasting along

He mispronounced

Olanzapine

Annoying to watch

And boring

The play also mutates and twists the NHS for viewing pleasure

We really don't spent days debating individual patients offering them cigarettes and acting unprofessionally

We're far too busy, booking theatre tickets and bitching here.

Saw it on Friday. It was OK although the play looks a bit dated now. It was chaos at the Young Vic which seems to be a permanent feature. After collecting the tickets from the unpleasant box office staff we went to queue to get in. They only opened at 7:25 and it was supposed to start at 7:30. Of course it didn't. Front of house were nice and enthusiastic but they didn't seem to know what they were doing with all fuss about sending people to the right wing to make you feel like you are in a hospital. The play started at 7:50 due mainly to bad organization.

The play was enjoyable up to a point but some parts were a tad boring. The actors did a decent if not remarkable job. David Haig take on the doctor is a bit cartoonish and not sinister enough although this could well be a directorial choice.

The problem isn't so much that the play mutates and twists the NHS, more that it mutates and twists the characters to attempt to give life to a few ideas. So after the first scene, very little makes sense....

Going to see this on the strengths of not having seen it before and David Haig being in it. He can be hammy at times but he was immense in the The Madness of George III.

I saw it yesterday and loved it. The little walk is unnecessary but didn't bother me too much.
Stage design beautiful and very effective, making the stage a sort of boxing ring (not literally).
All the actors very good, David Haig is brilliant.
The play is very clever and very funny, I loved that different people were laughing out loud at different jokes.
I don't know what is someone saying about NHS, I took it as general issue, not about a specific institution - and it didn't feel dated in any way, clearly it's one of the best contemporary plays around.

I'm seeing this on Wednesday matinee show.

Saw this yesterday and oh boy was it good! Too young for the original production and so glad to have seen it here. It was my third visit to the YV and it's looked completely different each time. The creative's team concept for the show seems no way gimmicky and keeps the play fresh and detracts from how the play is perhaps formally a little old fashioned. Walking through the realistic corridor, the clinical smell in the auditorium, the late 90s pop songs take you to that world. But the boxing ring/ pit style design adds a lot to the play.

All three actors were on top form, with Norris and Kaluuya very believable. The part of Robert seems to have been written for Haig he plays it so well. It's perhaps a bit sitcom mode and I wonder if Nighy found even more humour to it but Haig does a very fine job here. Although his character isn't likeable he doesn't play him as a villain.

Great play, still horribly relevant, well-realised in this production. Go see it!

I can't quite work out what I thought of this. I got to the theatre with 2 minutes to spare due to signal failures on trains having run, okay sort of run/staggered my way from waterloo so didn't have the opportunity to pause en route to the stage but did think 'must look round and take in, Theatremonkey said to do this', see the impact you have?! In truth though it was wasn't until someone else in the audience in the interval pointed out to their friend that it was a replica of the set did I realise, I think in my slightly oxygen starved thoughts I was treating it like one of those memory tests when you try to remember as much of you've seen as possible.

I liked this, particularly the second half and it made me think and at some points made my brain hurt a little chasing to catch up but I wasn't entirely won over I don't think. I liked the acting especially Daniel Kaluuya and the fast paced changes so that my sympathies rather kept changing and being challenged. It had dated a bit I suppose but not in a bad way, as noted above it was interesting to reflect how much has changed regarding our notions of political correctness and what is and is not acceptable. I suspect there wasn't meant to be any one interpretation but how much was I 'meant' to think David Haig's character was just out to get the results/info he needed for his research? Was he result focused all the time or just more pragmatic?

Views likely to be influenced by some sections of audience being plain irritating. On both sides of me where people munching away on sweets in what seemed to be a particularly food dependent audience, was it all those oranges that made them peckish? When did people start bringing whole ice creams on sticks in rather than those handy tubs which surely are harder to drop all over people, and cans of drink to fix and pop. Person on my left actually made almost no noise so was okay, woman on left had m and m, so rustle, rustle, crunch, crunch, wasn't sure if i was more annoyed with her for her plain rudeness or myself for not daring to do more than glare. Leaving afterwards the place looked like the cinema as in covered in food and rubbish, really poor on the audience's part.

Yep, oh good not just me inwardly tutting, or perhaps everyone else just doesn't end up covered in icecream like I do.

Oh were you the person who turned round and stared at her too? I was in high hope at that point that there was someone with more umph than me who would say something or that two stares would suffice where one didn't but sadly no.