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#1 User is offline   MaxCady 

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Posted 05 September 2009 - 03:46 PM

Has anyone seen the above plays. Swansong was a very very one act play. Rattigan's The Browning Version was also a very good play. I found the Browning Version to be very moving. Peter Bowles was first rate in both shows.
Will any one from here be going to see the above show?
This is also going to be Peter Bowles last ever touring role, he said that he now only wants to perform/act in London/West End
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Posted 05 September 2009 - 04:47 PM

I'd wanted to see this at Guildford but unfortunately the week it was on I was working a lot in the evenings and couldn't fit it in. Glad you enjoyed it. Is it going anywhere else?
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Posted 05 September 2009 - 08:48 PM

I saw this double bill in Cambridge a few weeks back. The Browning Version is, in my opinion, a perfectly-formed play and was done full justice by this cast. Bowles of course magnificent, incredibly restrained and heart-wrenching but I also enjoyed Charles Edwards' performance a great deal (will be watching out for him from now on). Super set too. Only an-hour-and-a-bit but well worth the ticket money, which was just as well as Swansong is ridiculously short (about 20 mins) and most of the audience seemed bemused by there being an interval after it!
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Posted 06 September 2009 - 01:49 PM

I saw them in Bath. The Browning Version was beautifully done, all the cast members first-rate, Bowles in particular. I hadn't seen the play before but had a fair idea of what it was about having seen excerpts from the various films over the years, and was very moved by it. Swansong is not really worth anyone's time in my opinion.
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Posted 07 September 2009 - 08:50 AM

QUOTE(MaxCady @ Sep 5 2009, 04:46 PM) View Post
Has anyone seen the above plays. Swansong was a very very one act play.
Can you clarify what you mean? That it was short? Concentrated? Definitely and absolutely only 1 act?

Seb
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