Reader Reviews
The Knowledge (The Bush Theatre, Inner London)
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 | Stunning, but yet again WOS still haven't deleted reviews for previous productions?! Anyhow, KNOWLEDGE was a terrific example of brilliant ensemble playing from a top notch cast. The four younger members being extraordinarily convincing. The play shows us a bleak and incisive look at the world of state education. God knows Michael Gove should see this play before he starts tampering with the education system, not that it would necessarily help him? The big question this play asks is what to do with unruly pupils, the ones who so disrupt classes they influence the behaviour of other pupils and in so doing destroy any semblance of authority a teacher might have? It is a big question and a hard one to answer. The play doesn't have that answer, but it throws the subject under a ferocious spotlight. A terrific new play touching on a burning issue and another example of why the Bush rivals the Royal Court as the most important theatre for new writing in this country. KNOWLEDGE should get a transfer. - rds. | 01 Feb 11 |
| I felt I was watching an succession of impressions. David Brent and Alison Steadman with a spitting Image Scotsman thrown in for good/bad measure. The dialogue was tedious and going nowhere. What is the point I kept thinking? Fortunately I was relieved of having to sit through the second act due to the indisposition of one of the cast members ..... perhaps they'd had enough of it too? The Bush well off form. - rds | 19 Feb 10 |
