The City
From: Thursday, 24th April 2008
To: Saturday, 7 June 2008
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Synopsis
Clair wants to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children - but the garden's empty, and the key to the playroom's disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here? Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world in this darkly comic mystery.
Our Review:
30 April 2008
Strange, mysterious but not very interesting is how I would sum up Martin Crimp’s eighty-minute play The City at the Royal Court. A marriage between a translator, Clair (bewitching Hattie Morahan), and a city type, Chris (brilliant emotional twitcher Benedict Cumberbatch), who loses his job, is attended by a wacky nurse (the delightful, very funny Amanda Hale) and their own little eight year-old daughter.
Nurse and daughter wear the same clothes. The latter has a fumbling go at Schubert’s F-minor “moment musical” on a shiny grand piano that dominates a single scene in Vicki Mortimer’s otherwise grey design which in turn conveys the sad truth of the play’s time and place as “blank.”
The nurse has a complaint about noise levels. The parents can’t cope with each other. It’s almost God of Carnage all over again. Then it suddenly turns into Christmas, with Clair lunging at the nurse with a knife – let me ge...
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Jack Blake - 30 May 2008:
This play is truly crap. From the annoying drones in the background that reminded me of a bad 80’s movie. To back lighting that did literally nothing except hurt my eyes. Hattie Morahan’s performance was awful to say the least, irreparably damaging my ears with her screeching voice. Benedict Cumberbatch is good, thank god. Amanda Hale tries hard, bless her, and I know what other reviewers would say. “That I didn’t get it”. THERE’S NOTHING TO GET! It’s layers of pointless pap, upon layers of meaningless, pointless pap. Don’t be fooled by the emperor’s cloths. I felt this play was meant to be unsettling, but it not. It’s just plain irritating. Don’t waste your money or time. ...
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Martin Crimp (Author)
Royal Court (Producer)
Katie Mitchell (Director)
Vicki Mortimer (Design)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
Gareth Fry (Sound)
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