Reader Reviews
Fool for Love (Apollo Theatre, West End)
Back to Show Details| Score | Comment | Date |
 | Pointless. Just utterly pointless. Why did anyone bother? - 217.196.231.33) | 09 Aug 06 |
| Very well acted and very well designed, but I'm afraid this production lacked electricity. Both of the earlier London outings, at the Cottesloe and the Donmar, had you on the edge of your seat but this one didn't really take off. - 86.139.77.57) | 01 Aug 06 |
| Despite the superb acting all round and the classy production values, this left me rather cold. Some of the dialogue is viciously funny and some of it cod-poetic, yet I never felt any real connection with these tormented souls. Also, at barely 80 minutes long, it is hard to justify the steep pricing. - 195.82.123.181) | 22 Jul 06 |
| This was one of the worst plays I have seen anywhere anytime. The acting was wooden, the lines poorly delivered, the sound effects for door slams tedious, the supposed tension non-existent. Juliet Lewis was especially poor. I spent much of it looking at my watch, not a good sign in a play that lasts a little over an hour... - 195.171.163.194) | 15 Jun 06 |
| Maybe we saw it too early in the previews, plus the Henderson fan club behind us didn't help by drooling loudly over Mr H the whole way through, but that aside it wasn't a great evening. The effect of echoing the doors slamming became very tedious very quickly and neither of the leads seemed too comfortable with their lines. Juliette Lewis who would have seemed born to play a Shephard role was unimpressive, not edgy enough - maybe the venue was too big after the recent Donmar and Almeida Shephard productions, both of which were far better than this pallid production. - 212.159.122.205) | 12 Jun 06 |
