The Sacred Flame
From: Tuesday, 9th October 2012
To: Saturday, 13 October 2012
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Synopsis
Written in the 1920s. World War One hero Maurice Tabret is disabled after a flying accident, tended lovingly by his mother, his beautiful wife Stella, and the devoted Nurse Wayland. When he dies from an overdose during the night, and it is revealed that Stella is in love with Maurice's brother Colin and is expecting a baby, questions begin to be raised as to whether it was murder or suicide.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 9 October 2012
On one level W Somerset Maugham's The Sacred Flame is the archetypical well-made play of the late 1920s. On another, it's an equally archetypical whodunnit. On yet another, it's a detailed and truthful exploration of relationships – maternal and matrimonial, sexual and sublimated, caring and careless – which is just as valid for 2012 as for 1928.
Director Matthew Dunster and designer Anne Fleischie seem determined to keep us – the audience – at a distance. It's as though we are not meant, let alone wanted, to engage with the people on stage other than as actors playing their parts. Quite frankly, this intended alienation doesn't work; we do feel for the characters and we do become involved in their predicaments.
With the house lights still up and an oddly disturbing soundscape just impinging, stage managers move chairs and arrange props. Actors materialise for the first scene with paraplegic Maurice Tabret (the excellent [Ja...
Latest User Review
Nicola - 16 October 2012:
I came to see this play with my school and it really was a very good performance we all liked the comedy of the piece and the tragic pieces really were moving. We all could not understand how that man held his breath for so long....
Cast
Jamie De Courcey (Maurice Tabret)
Beatriz Romilly (Stella Tabret)
Katrina Innes (Alice)
Sarah Churm (Nurse Wayland)
Margot Leicester (Mrs Tabret)
Al Nedjari (Dr Harvester)
Robert Demeger (Major Liconda)
David Ricardo-Pearce (Colin Tabret)
Creative
William Somerset Maugham (Author)
English Touring Theatre (Company)
Matthew Dunster (Director)
Anna Fleischle (Design)
Lee Curran (Lighting)
Matthew Dunster (Director)
Emma Laxton (Sound)
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