In a Forest, Dark and Deep
From: Thursday, 3rd March 2011
To: Saturday, 4 June 2011
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Synopsis
Matthew Fox and Olivia Williams star in Neil La Bute’s new play, In a Forest Dark and Deep at the Vaudeville Theatre.
On a dark and stormy night, all Bobby thought he was doing was helping his sister Betty clear out her cottage in the forest. But in this cabin of lies nothing is as it seems and the truth refuses to be packed away. What is she hiding? Does he really want to find out?
In a Forest Dark and Deep is a dark comedy of sibling rivalry escalates into a psychological thriller bursting with savage conflict.
Matthew Fox makes his west end debut. Amongst his many credits he is best known for his roles as Dr. Jack Shephard in J.J. Abrams award winning Lost and as Charlie Salinger in the popular series Party of Five. Acclaimed British actress of stage, television and film, Olivia Williams credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre), Emma and Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer.
A taut two-hander, In a Forest Dark and Deep is written and directed by Neil LaBute, whose many other credits include The Shape of Things, Bash, Some Girls, This Is How It Goes, In a Dark Dark House, The Mercy Seat, The Distance from Here, Bash and Fat Pig (which won the 2009 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy).
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Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 15 March 2011
Edgy, schematic, brilliantly constructed, unpredictable: you couldn’t ask much more of a two-hander: but Neil LaBute’s In a Forest, Dark and Deep, a world premiere, is only a sibling stand-off companion piece to his much richer, and more disturbing, In a Dark Dark House at the Almeida three years ago.
This new play’s efficiently and engagingly performed by hunky Lost star Matthew Fox and elegant, gestural Olivia Williams as the carpenter Bobby and the college lecturer Betty, but they don’t really want to sleep with each other enough – this is a comment on the characters as well as the acting – and, after one hour, fifty minutes, you don’t mind all that much about parting company with them.
The activating discussion point is Betty’s promiscuous past, her failing marriage and her recent infatuation with a student on the campus where she teaches. She’s called round Bobby, who...
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Celia - 17 May 2011:
I kept expecting the play to deliver a grusome shock or cunning twist (I was longing for Betty's husband to appear silhouetted in the doorway weilding an axe or something following one of the blackouts!), but sadly the plot kept plodding predictably along. The acting was superb but the relationship between the characters was implausible and the characters themselves not very likeable or believeable - I just didn't care enough about them to mind very much what happened in the end. And the sudden revelation of mild incest seemed shoe-horned in for effect but was unnecessary and added nothing to the plot. The "big twist" was obvious from about half-way through the play, and once you'd figured that out it was rather a long trudge to the end. Shame the script let down the actors as they deserved better. I was expecting an intense thriller but was sadly disappointed. (Matthew Fox is still gorgeous though!)...
Cast
Matthew Fox (Bobby)
Olivia Williams (Betty)
Creative
Neil LaBute (Author)
Anna Waterhouse (Producer)
Nica Burns (Producer)
Max Weitzenhoffer (Producer)
Jay Harris (Producer)
Josephine Genetay (Producer)
Neil LaBute (Director)
Soutra Gilmour (Design)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
Fergus O'Hare (Sound)
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