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#1 whittlebot

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Posted 20 September 2009 - 07:08 PM

High camp and wonderful! and all for £10, front row, stalls. last night. Run to it! Performances to marvel at, a stunning set, a production that hits the ground running making 3 hours seem minutes. Over too soon. Brilliant!

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#2 Eoghan

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Posted 20 September 2009 - 09:57 PM

Going in a few weeks. Looking forward to it...

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 01:13 AM

QUOTE(whittlebot @ Sep 20 2009, 08:08 PM)

Couldn't agree more! It's wonderful: all of it. Especially Higgins, Ford-Davies, Terry, and the GREAT Conleth Hill (who has corpsed both times I've watched this: great, daring actor!).

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 08:02 AM

A very enjoyable production staged with style. Some very good performances from the cast in parts large and small, with Clare Higgins, Oliver Ford Davies and especially Conleth Hill among the former. The audience loved it, and I was pleased to see some children around us spellbound by the performances and the general experience (mindful that Shakespeare can be hard to follow).

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#5 whittlebot

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 04:53 PM

QUOTE(Eoghan @ Sep 20 2009, 09:57 PM)

Going in a few weeks. Looking forward to it...

You'll laugh, you might even snuffle a bit, and the memories will last a very long time! I was silently chuckling at work today recalling some of the funniest moments! Do please post your thoughts when you've seen it.

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Posted 21 September 2009 - 08:31 PM

QUOTE(whittlebot @ Sep 21 2009, 05:53 PM)

You may want to check out the old thread that had sunk rather! We all loved it too!
http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=6299

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#7 Eoghan

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Posted 01 October 2009 - 09:10 AM

Just demonstrates my ignorance, but the acid test for me for a Shakepeare play that I don't know is "do I understand what's going on?" Here I understood vurtually every sentence. I loved this production. A great deal of restraint is shown: once you go don the "fairy-tale" style route, it would be very easy to go OTT with the "magical" cliches but it was delightfully subtle. The music was fantastic - always complementing the action. A nice simple set and great lighting but nothing too out there. But the real winners were the actors. Apart from a limp Bertram (George Rainsford) who lacked disdain of any kind towards Helena, the cast were excellent. Humour (and a lot of brilliant smut) was eked out from the script throughout, and Michelle Terry was very strong as Helena. The curing of the King (Oliver Ford Davies) reminded me of Gandalf curing Theoden - the transformation from wizened wreck to powerful monarch was brilliant. All in all, very satisfactory, definitely worth bagging a ticket if you can.