Grief
From: Wednesday, 14th September 2011
To: Saturday, 28 January 2012
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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:
Michael Coveney - 22 September 2011
Mike Leigh’s new play is about the start of the Space Age – and the launch of Sputnik in October 1957 – as viewed, or rather ignored, as it happens in a distant suburban terraced house in west London.
The visiting doctor’s son at Manchester University is researching into things called computers. A neighbour’s son is working as a waiter and has no girlfriends. We hear of an air stewardess whose celebrity clients are Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson, the Eurovision Song Contest duo. James Dean’s been and gone.
But Lesley Manville’s widowed Dorothy (husband “lost” in the War) is frozen in grief, suspended in a malignant spiritual inertia, trapped in a house she shares with her elder brother Edwin and her brutishly sullen teenaged daughter Victoria.
Sam Kelly’s pipe-smoking Edwin is about to retire after 45 years with an insurance firm. He has no plans, and no leisure pursuits or trousers. [Ruby Bent...
Latest User Review
Paul Wallis - 15 January 2012:
There is much to admire in this production, not least the excellent acting, especially from Lesley Manville. The play is well staged and the small details are spot on, yet I left feeling frustrated by the lack of plot. It was obvious from early on what the outcome would be and whilst the characters - Gertrude, Muriel and Hugh offer delightful diversions, the ending is never in doubt. ...
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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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