Bovery

Saw the play twice two weeks ago - I had one ticket and dayseated for another one. It was more than worth the long wait in the cold. I loved the staging, loved the intensity. I don't understand some criticisms about it being "shouty". I guess that Lloyd's intention was to show a world in which the survivors of whatever cataclysmic event that must have happened were already deranged, a dog eat dog situation. They were all tense, mad, barking at each other because there weren't really any more "niceties" left in the world.

Anyway, James McAvoy was superb. He was so believable commanding in the beginning, and so harrowingly descending into madness until his suicide stance at the end. Brilliant. I'm really gutted he didn't win the Olivier today. His was the best performance I've seen in theatre in a long, long time.

Really happy for James McAvoy and Macbeth.

Thanks! I never think about checking back the site, guess I'll do this often now.

Coated peanut, on 11 March 2013 - 07:33 PM, said:

This is terrible, specially because ebayers have been selling tickets at £200 pounds. I went to the page out of curiosity, and all the tickets have lots of bids.

I have a question for you...you said that you bought a return ticket for the matinee. Does one have to queue for those? And are returns sold only on the same day of the performance?

I didn't like Taming too. The weakest of the series.