The Country Wife

The Country Wife Potential forthcoming production

#1 Elkie

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 05:59 PM

Hi - Has anyone heard any rumblings about a new production of The Country Wife at the Haymarket? I saw a wonderful production at The Royal Exchange Manchester in the late 80's with Gary Oldman and Ian McDiarmid - would love to see it again!

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 06:40 PM

QUOTE(Elkie @ Jun 25 2007, 06:59 PM)

I saw that production - it had Alex Jennings and (I think) Cheryl Campbell. Imagine getting that cast together again!

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Posted 21 July 2007 - 04:53 PM

QUOTE(Elkie @ Jun 25 2007, 06:59 PM)

It starts in September at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, after The Last Confession closes.

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Posted 11 September 2007 - 02:03 PM

QUOTE(Elkie @ Jun 25 2007, 05:59 PM)

Yes, it is happening with Patricia Hodge and Toby Stephens. Opens September 27th.

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Posted 29 September 2007 - 03:11 PM

WOW saw the Country Wife on its first showing on thursday night at the Haymarket what a great play it was enjoyable & funny with sexy Toby Stephens in the role of Horner what a body!! and some great comic acting It was one of the most enjoyable evenings in a theatre ever, I would heartly recommend & I shall be going again

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 11:36 AM

mmmm Toby S
born to play this part

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 02:20 PM

Each to their own.... I too attended on Thursday night, and whilst in pretty good shape for a first preview I really found this restoration comedy totally unfunny. Plenty of laughter was coming from the stalls but on the Royal Circle it was on the whole greeted with a silence. Not sure if that improved by the second act as by the time that started I thankfully was on a bus headed home!

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 08:52 PM

I went to the first night of Country Wife and thought it hysterical and yes the stalls appreciated the humour and there was a great deal of laughter. It was a complicated play with lots of scene changes and lots that could go wrong, 'fine tuning' was needed but that's what preview nights are for, but it still was excellent! Toby Stephens' comic timing is superb and shows again what a fabulous actor he is!
It is a little strange, one person sitting in the Royal Circle felt that CW was 'on the whole greeted with a silence.' yet I had a friend sitting front row Royal Circle on the same night and she heard much laughter during the play and many positive comments as people were leaving. How strange!

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 09:42 PM

I was that person in the front row circle - with my husband - who laughed heartily and thought it was great! As did many around me.
As you say - each to his own: this was a superb production and Toby's perfect comic timing was superb.

A great evening, wonderful production, fabulous acting, funny and worth every penny. I will be going again and again and again. If only all West End theatre was of this calibre.

And did I mention that Toby Stephens was FANTASTIC!

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#10 Liz

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 10:01 PM

Why bother posting a review ...if you're not even going to sit through the whole play...everything I've heard about this play so far has been positive...apart from someone who was heading home on a bus before it was finished...if you wanted to see a polished production...perhaps you should have waited until the kinks...such as they were...were ironed out

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