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[peggs]

Pharaoh, on 30 December 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

The DoD audience were the usual Donmar type: white, middle class, go to the theatre often.... 'do you remember we saw McNally in Hamlet or Lapaine in the recent Hedda' type people. Better dressed? Yes, I'd say so. DoD wore blazers or skirts.... I was the youngest there by a good few years I think. Not super smart, but def better turned out.

oh dear that does rather sound like me, although i don't think i qualify as middle class and at my recent  trip to the donmar i could have almost doubled as part of the cast in my hoody

[xanderl]

I may be the last person to twig this, but (assuming I'm right about Silence of the Sea) I like the link that all three plays in this season are three handers with a vague thematic link (two men and a woman, military connection, trapped in a confined space)

[Epicoene]

I had not seen Indira Varma before, I'd like to see more of her (though that seems scarely possible if you set safe search off).

[mallardo]

Yes, a few years back she was the star of Kama Sutra - a movie which lived up to its title.

[Epicoene]

mallardo, on 31 December 2012 - 11:01 AM, said:

Yes, a few years back she was the star of Kama Sutra - a movie which lived up to its title.

Up, and indeed, down.

[xanderl]

She talks about the filming of Kama Sutra here -

http://www.telegraph...o-the-dead.html

Doesn't sound like a happy experience

[peggs]

Epicoene, on 31 December 2012 - 09:47 AM, said:

I had not seen Indira Varma before, I'd like to see more of her (though that seems scarely possible if you set safe search off).

She was superb in the Donmar's Twelfth Night a few years back as Olivia, really made me look at the character in a different way.

[Ruperto]

I saw this the night before last and thought it was fantastic - it's a shame the run is so short. Of all the things I've seen over the last few weeks, this probably got the strongest audience reaction. As some of the reviews have suggested, it does have a hint of sitcom at the outset (Torvald and June?) but then really cranks into gear and packs a lot in (it's not a play I'm familiar with).

In that tiny space, Kevin R McNally's stomping bully of a captain was literally in-your-face, and Indira Varma was a revelation to me - I've seen her in loads of TV but not on stage before. Daniel Lapaine was great too, though it looked like he was battling a cold - runny nose and streaming eyes, poor thing (unless that was part of the performance!)

Trafalgar Studios 2 has been one of my favourite places to see stuff during the last year or two - roll on Silence of the Sea later this month...