Art
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To: Saturday, 4 January 2003
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Synopsis
Yasmina Reza's play is essentially about the concepts of friendship and value, and the way in which the two can cause conflict. One friend tries to appease a quarrel between two others over the purchase of a work of art, but in doing so only makes things worse, forcing all three of them to re-examine their friendship and the direction in which it is going.1997 - Olivier Award Best Comedy. 1998 - Tony Award Best Play
Our Review:
22 October 2002
What's the secret to the longevity of Art? No, not as in the contents of the National Gallery, but as in the attraction playing just across Trafalgar Square. Yasmina Reza's comedy of Parisian manners and modern art (opened at Wyndham's Theatre in October 1996 and transferred to the Whitehall in 2001) is now, at the start of its seventh year in the West End, welcoming its 27th and final cast.
A large part of the joy of the piece is in the casting, and the subtle differences in the interactions of the trios that have performed it over the years. The show's clever producer, David Pugh, has been particularly adept at springing casting surprises, whether with sometime pop stars (Gary Kemp), television personalities previously not known for their acting (Jamie Theakston) or stand-up comics crossing over to straight acting (Jack Dee, Frank Skinner and Sean Hughes). Pugh has now achieved a coup of sorts to make the show go out with a bang, by recruiting a pr...
Latest User Review
USER: Whatsonstage.com (195.93.34.8) - 6 November 2002:
This three man play was well written from start to finish. It is not an easy task to hold an audience's attention with a stark unchanging set and three blokes talking, arguing, bonding, etc. If flash is what you need, don't bother just see Lion King again and be happy. If comic brilliance, well timed spoken word is what you are looking for then by all means see this play before it closes. I saw the most recent cast (League Of Gentlemen) and think they are brilliant. I would not mind sitting through another production with previous cast members. - Anne Stockton...
Cast
Steve Pemberton (Marc)
Mark Gatiss (Serge)
Reece Shearsmith (Yvan)
Creative
Yasmina Reza (Author)
Christopher Hampton (Translation)
David Pugh (Producer)
Sean Connery (Producer)
Nigel Havers (Director)
Matthew Warchus (original) (Director)
Nigel Havers (Director)
Mark Thompson (Design)
Hugh Vanstone (Lighting)
Gary Yershon (Music)
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