Grief
From: Tuesday, 1st November 2011
To: Saturday, 5 November 2011
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Synopsis
The National Theatre has commissioned Mike Leigh to create another play for the Cottesloe. In his unique collaborative way, Leigh is working with a company of actors, together with his regular award-winning creative team, to explore characters, relationships, themes and ideas.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 1 November 2011
Mike Leigh’s latest play for the National Theatre, visiting Cambridge as part of a short tour, is a provoking affair. The – often very short – scenes are punctuated by Gary Yershon’s incidental music and some deliberately visible stage management. It makes for a strange sort of alienation effect, mirroring the way all the characters never quite end up on the same wavelength as any one of the others for more than a brief, almost brushed-aside moment.
It’s superbly acted, especially by Ruby Bentall as Victoria, the troubled teenage daughter of Lesley Manville (war widow Dorothy) and Dorothy’s brother Edwin (Sam Kelly). All three give subtle performances as each revolves in his or her partly home-created cage of selfishness. You can visualise the abyss into which Bentall’s character is heading as the dutiful daughter twists into the confrontational schoolgirl.
Kelly’s portrait of a man facing retirement from offi...
Creative
Mike Leigh (Author)
National Theatre (Producer)
Mike Leigh (Director)
Alison Chitty (Design)
Paul Pyant (Lighting)
Gary Yershon (Music)
John Leonard (Sound)
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