Quartermaine's Terms
From: Wednesday, 23rd January 2013
To: Saturday, 13 April 2013
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Synopsis
Set in the 1960s in an English language school for foreigners, this tragicomic play is a humorous but ultimately moving account of several years in the lives of seven teachers.
At the heart of the group is St. John Quartermaine - kind, pleasant and agreeable, but utterly hopeless as a teacher. An almost permanent feature in the staff room, he's always available to listen to the problems of his self-obsessed colleagues. But when a new Principal is appointed, Quartermaine's future looks precarious.
Quartermaine's Terms, which opens on 29 February (previews from 23 February) at Wyndham's Theatre, stars Rowan Atkinson as St. John Quartermaine and is directed by former National Theatre artistic director Richard Eyre.
Written by Simon Gray, this quintessentialy British drama revival is a must-see, so book your tickets now!
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 30 January 2013
Rowan Atkinson returns to the London stage as Simon Gray’s emotionally inert and inefficient teacher St John Quartermaine, a role first played thirty years ago by Edward Fox in a silky and poetic production by Harold Pinter.
Richard Eyre’s revival is a little rougher round the edges, the comedy broader and less plangent, the mood mostly Chekhovian with a bleak chill of Strindberg which is appropriate as Quartermaine doesn’t know which of those playwrights he’s booked to see at the theatre.
Quartermaine is one of six teachers in the staff room of the Cull-Loomis School of English for Foreigners in Cambridge. He’s a fixture, permanently attached to an old leather armchair, useful as a baby-sitter for his colleagues and invariably in receipt of vague invitations to drinks or di...
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Geoff - 17 April 2013:
The play was presented as almost a high comedy which had to work hard to take us into darker areas. In more successful versions it has been , correctly in my view, been done in the opposite way. Rowan A comes with such comic baggage that the audience laughed at his very first twitch in the opening moments, which slightly unnerved me. The others characters took this as their starting point and all played their parts too much for laughs. For this reason the play was far less powerful than the Tv version I remember with Edward Fox and even that was not as good as a superb radio version by the late Michael Williams and Peter Jeffreys. ...
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Simon Gray (Author)
Michael Codron ()
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Richard Eyre (Director)
Tim Hatley (Design)
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