Reader Reviews
The Man (Finborough, Inner London)
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 | One star for the appalling conditions the management subjected the audience to tonight, it felt like 40 C in there. I should have been warned when taking my seat seeing a window wide open and the theatre still feeling like an oven, but no I was daft enough to stay and watch the last vestiges of any air shut out when the window was closed. I stuck it out for 40 minutes but had to leave, apologising to the wonderful Samuel Barnett on the way. How the theatre has the nerve to treat not only him but the audience to such conditions is beyond belief. Animals are treated better. The play is so so probably it would work better on the radio? It sounded that way with the other cast member a disembodied voice from behind. The device of having every member of the audience holding a receipt, which the character Ben played by Samuel Barnett, then chooses from has clearly been put in to spice it up. However, having left early I guess I can't comment too much only to say it was tedious in the extreme under the appalling conditions we were subjected to, but alleviated only by Samuel Barnett's fine acting - god bless him for sticking it out and 5 stars for that. - rds | 17 Jun 10 |
