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[Latecomer]

Clydebourne Park..... average not brilliant.

South Pacific..... poor with dreadful acting.

Woyzeck on the Highveld.....bobbing puppets does not a good tale make.

Greek, opera......was this really great music or just a mish mash of notes?

Butley..............just me or was Dominic West a bit annoying and stumbling with his lines?.....

[Laughingmonsta]

For me - it was Macbeth at The Liverpool Everyman

[igb]

wickedgrin, on 29 December 2011 - 06:49 PM, said:

I try and avoid stuff I know I am not going to enjoy - it is a waste of precious time and money. Anything by Ayckbourne I avoid for this reason.

You can take the boy out of the provinces, but you can't...

[Rozzi Rainbow]

Spamalot

I just didn't find it funny at all yet everyone else seemed to be laughing hysterically most of the time - I felt as though I was on a completely different wavelength. I nearly walked out about five times, the only thing that made me stay was wanting to see what happened to the person in seat D1 - even that wasn't worth it! Saying that, I did sort of enjoy some parts, mainly Hayley Tammadon as the Lady of the Lake, her scenes seemed to be less daft.

[The Suburbanite]

Agree re History Boys, Mrs The S and I thought it was okay but were both mystified by the rapturous reception it got (not to mention its subsequent growth and longevity). We were also nearly alone in not standing for the NT Frankenstein, one of the most preposterously undeserved ovations I've seen. And you should have seen the open-mouthed faces of stunned disbelief when we said we didn't like Sunset Boulevard.

I can't yet think of one the other way around though.

[kjb]

Reich, on 28 December 2011 - 06:21 PM, said:

london rd

Will you please be my New Best Friend?

I HATED it.

[Nev]

Love this thread!

I certainly felt like the odd one out watching Betrayal at the Comedy... err, Pinter Theatre. I love Harold Pinter and I've read Betrayal way too many times, as well as discussing it with friends and literature lecturers. I love the play and its subtle, dark comedy - but the audience was literally roaring all the way through which completely ruined the subtlety and enjoyment for me. I certainly find parts funny, but not in that way. It's as if the audience took the (then) name of the theatre literally.

I left feeling as though me, my tutors and my friends have completely misunderstood the play. And then I thought that the play perhaps hit a little bit too close to home and the roaring laughs were actually out of nervousness. Either way, quite a disconcerting experience.

[Lynette]

Pinter can be hilarious. Maybe we can enter a less reverential mode now he is no longer with us.

[Honoured Guest]

Lynette, on 02 January 2012 - 01:02 PM, said:

Pinter can be hilarious. Maybe we can enter a less reverential mode now he is no longer with us.

Yes, there is much humour. And I found that he conveyed it in performance, when acting in his own plays, more completely than many other actors have managed to do.

[armadillo]

Will someone please tell me what the correct opinion of the Pillowman was. I liked the actors but hated the play. Lynette apparently disagreed with everyone else. But I don't know what everyone else thought