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I was today in Row M too! I was the annoying one with water, wine gums and cough sweets - very very sorry.
It was a fire drill - someone forgot to say "We're on with The Scottish Play in five..." and the stage erupted in flames. That's not actually what happened (probably). I assume, since it took us an extra ten minutes to get into the building, it was a fire drill, but I was a bit late and have never been gladder for a fire alarm.
Actually, on the note of coughing, given how tempremental most people's throats are at the best of times, let alone in a particularly virus-y February, I thought opening with smoke and incense was perhaps a bad idea.
Anywho, I think I'll post more tomorrow as my thoughts are more with my throat than with the theatre, but I felt a little more hohum about bits of this than most people. There was a lot of very good stuff (McAvoy was ace, Ballard, some nice touches) but a lot that to me didn't work and overall I rather enjoyed it but bits - Lady Macbeth and a couple of what I thought were gimmicks (for example the witches and, actually, the overall setting) - didn't work. Mostly positive though, but some fairly big quantifiers which left me thinking this was ever so slightly more tepid than most people think it. I also had perhaps unfair problems, in row M, with the onstage seats.
Theatrical highlight of the year though - I go to my friends in the back row and say "Not too keen on Lady Macbeth, she felt a bit shouty to me, though that might just be me." As I finish to draw breath, someone down the row said "She was a bit shouty."
#256594 James Mcavoy - Macbeth At Trafalgar Studios
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on 01 March 2013 - 01:40 AM
#256133 James Mcavoy - Macbeth At Trafalgar Studios
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on 25 February 2013 - 08:46 PM
Bovery, on 25 February 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:
I noticed that in some of the newer reviews Claire Foy seems to be receiving more accolades than she did during the previews. I was worried that Claire would never keep up with James' energetic acting. Not that she needed to be as riveting, but perhaps not so low-key that it would create a huge gap between Macbeth and Lady M, which would result in insular characters with a common goal - too contradictory and hard to buy.
Anyone who has seen the play lately could confirm this, is Claire really finding her feet?
Anyone who has seen the play lately could confirm this, is Claire really finding her feet?
I don't know if her performance has changed much since the previews, but for me, she was one of the weaker aspects of the production. I would love to have seen more fire from her, more determination and strength in her early scenes.
#239921 Our Boys
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on 06 October 2012 - 10:59 PM
OurBoysThePlay, on 06 October 2012 - 05:03 PM, said:
@armadillo - The reason for "the big secret" being an issue for the soldiers is that in the army, such rule-breaking could lead to them being thrown out for conduct unbecoming a soldier. So the stakes are high for all of them.
@everyone - we seem to be getting a bad press from posters on this thread, which isn't typical of audience or press reactions so far, so here is a link to our reviews page where you can see lots of lovely things being said about the play - http://www.ourboystheplay.com/press - and for the typical popular reaction have a look at our mentions on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/.../ourboystheplay
@everyone - we seem to be getting a bad press from posters on this thread, which isn't typical of audience or press reactions so far, so here is a link to our reviews page where you can see lots of lovely things being said about the play - http://www.ourboystheplay.com/press - and for the typical popular reaction have a look at our mentions on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/.../ourboystheplay
Thank you DefensiveTheatreGuy - I worked out what was going on but because the rule-breaking seemed so minor (to a civilian), I spent a lot of time wondering if I'd missed something, Just like the potential officer missed all the army slang while he was, er, in the army...
As a matter of interest, do people often post negative comments of play's twitter feeds?
