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mallardo

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In Topic: Race - Hampstead Theatre

Today, 05:31 AM

Saw it in New York.  Maybe it was because James Spader was in it playing a lawyer but it felt like a TV episode that didn't sell so Mamet made a play of it.

In Topic: Once London

21 May 2013 - 10:50 AM

Promote your blog!  I'd like to read it.

In Topic: Donmar New Season

20 May 2013 - 11:24 AM

<--------  Jessica Raine!  Say no more.

In Topic: Public Enemy- Young Vic

19 May 2013 - 09:09 AM

The key to the mayor's argument is that while the spa was shut down for repairs other towns would jump in to fill the spa gap with their own healthy waters.  It's a competition issue.  It couldn't be more relevant.  So why did this production fail?  I agree with Poly's idea that updating makes the play seem - in the context of our daily discourse - superficial.  Leaving the play alone in its 19th century world allows it to be prescient.

In Topic: Public Enemy- Young Vic

18 May 2013 - 04:15 PM

I didn't find much to like in this.  The Town Meeting scene didn't work at all for me - the "translation" was at its worst here - with some inept staging and poor Nick Fletcher exhorting an audience that wanted no part of him even when they agreed with what he was saying.  I suppose that's, in fact, the point but while it was happening it was just embarrassing.  

Apart from the ridiculously elongated stage - Lyttleton lite - the chief defect was the cast.  Among the many things Richard Jones is not good at is assembling talented actors.  Here, apart from Fletcher and the reliable Darrell D'Silva, the performances were all sub-standard.  Even the luscious Charlotte Randle seemed to be floundering - a particular disappointment.  At least I only paid 19 pounds to see it from the front row.

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