Polar Bears
From: Thursday, 1st April 2010
To: Saturday, 22 May 2010
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Synopsis
John has never met anyone like Kay. When the moon is in the right phase, she is magnetic and amazingly alive. But when the darkness closes in, she is lost to another world, a world in which John does not belong. One man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition is beautifully captured with humour and pathos in this extraordinary play by Mark Haddon, the author of The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 7 April 2010
Disturbing, intense, bizarre: Mark Haddon’s 90-minute play, his first, is all of these and more. Despite being a sort of case history, which could have been dull, it’s also theatrically spellbinding.
A philosopher tells his brother-in-law that his wife is in the cellar. Or she may be in Oslo. She’s been ill. She’s a writer. And she’s met Jesus, who speaks with a Geordie accent. And at some point she’s pregnant.
The play jumps around in Jamie Lloyd’s clever and outstandingly well acted production, and it doesn’t aim for total narrative coherence. But nothing seems left out, or mysterious, by the end. Kay, the writer, is swept off her feet by Richard, the philosopher, talking about Nietzsche.
How promising does that sound? Kay’s brother is a businessman who dares her, in their childhood, to stand on a chair with a noose round her neck.
Their father committed suicide. Their mother – played with swift interventionist hauteur by Celia Imrie – is protective to t...
Latest User Review
addicted to theatre - 10 May 2010:
Well played, but the play felt like a first draft with some good moments but no clear message or point....
Creative
Mark Haddon (Author)
Donmar Warehouse (Producer)
Jamie Lloyd (Director)
Soutra Gilmour (Design)
Jon Clark (Lighting)
Ben Ringham (Sound)
Max Ringham (Sound)
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