Honour
From: Tuesday, 7th February 2006
To: Saturday, 6 May 2006
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Synopsis
For the past 32 years Honor has been married to George. A prominent journalist, George is to feature in a book on the Movers and Shakers but when the beguiling young Claudia arrives to pen his profile, he's unsettled to have his own interview techniques - and a few other tricks - turned on him. When George leaves Honor for Claudia, their lives - including that of the couple's insecure twentysomething daughter - are thrown into turmoil.
Our Review:
15 February 2006
The new production of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour that has opened at Wyndham’s, just three years after it originally received its British premiere in an entirely different staging and cast at the National, is now the third one I’ve seen, since I also saw its Broadway premiere in 1998 (in a different production again). And while comparisons are invidious, it’s also amazing how insidiously the play has been undermined by a staging that is altogether less eloquent and resonant, but also to do with just how fundamentally miscast three of its four actors are now, too.
The last time around, in the intimate surrounds of the Cottesloe -- where the audience were arranged on two sides, like eavesdroppers to its portrait of domestic upheaval and emotion that follows when a middle-aged husband suddenly walks out of a 32-year marriage after he falls for a 28-year-old woman who has come to interview him -- I was overwhelmed by this forensically ...
Latest User Review
88.104.234.170) - 26 March 2006:
I found this play enjoyable to watch but ultimately emotionally thin. It never seemed real to me. I felt Martin Jarvis was too lightweight and Diana Rigg never seemed hurt enough from the break-up of her marriage. We talked a lot about the content of the play after the show so it got us thinking but somehow the dramatic heartbreak that should have been there was missing. Does anyone want a chair? Goodness know what we were supposed to make of that....
Cast
Diana Rigg (Honor)
Martin Jarvis (George)
Natascha McElhone (Claudia)
Georgia Rich (Sophie)
Creative
Joanna Murray-Smith (Author)
David Grindley (Director)
Matthew Gale (Design)
Jenny King (Design)
Steve Wilkinson (Design)
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