Company
From: Tuesday, 29th November 2011
To: Saturday, 7 January 2012
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Synopsis
It's Robert's 30th birthday. He seems to have everything: good looks, charm and a great sense of humour, and yet he is single. In Company, he watches the lives of his friends; five very different New York couples, and reflects on the joys and pitfalls of relationships. Presented in a series of vignettes through Robert's eyes, we see in their lives the less than ideal aspects of marriage...and yet there must be some reason why they stay together. A huge success when first performed in 1970, this show will make you laugh all evening and stay up thinking about it all night afterwards.
Our Review:
8 December 2011
Surely Stephen Sondheim was being a touch disingenuous when he claimed that he had no idea that Company would be “unsettling”. Admittedly, when it was first staged in 1970, post-Hair, musical comedies didn’t have to be warm-hearted narratives like The Sound of Music, but the non-linear arrangement of inter-disconnected stories makes it still a most original and surprising period piece.
Robert, a New Yorker with a deep-seated aversion to commitment, is celebrating his 35th birthday. After news of a planned surprise party his life is revealed to him (and us) via scenes with five couples, friends of his, and three girlfriends to whom he is less than committed. In the first half he is often the third party, a negative catalyst, in the scenes with his friends; in the second half his problems (if he has any problems) move centre stage.
Apart from Robert, the various characters have their big numbers, their big scenes, then merge into t...
Latest User Review
Witchy Lynne - 1 January 2012:
Couldn't agree more with William! I went along with high expectations after the professional reviews but it was absolute tosh. Second half slightly better than the first but dreadful over all. Such a shame after Daniel Evans' blinder in Me and My Girl last year which was terrific....
Cast
Daniel Evans (Bobby)
Francesca Annis (Joanne)
Samantha Spiro
Lucy Montgomery
Ian Gelder
Anna-Jane Casey
Kelly Price
David Birrell
Rosalie Craig
Steven Cree
Claire Price
Alistair Robins
Samantha Seager
Creative
Stephen Sondheim (Music)
Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics)
George Furth (Book)
Sheffield Theatres (Producer)
Jonathan Munby (Director)
Christopher Oram (Design)
Nigel Lilley (Musical Director)
Lynne Page (Choreographer)
Neil Austin (Lighting)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
Simon Hale (orchestration) (Music)
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