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Post by Phantom of London on Nov 30, 2016 21:37:11 GMT
Those ones that cannot get expunged from your memory, I mean you grimace everytime you think of it, for me:
Barking in Essex
The Duck House
The Mentalist
Clyboune Park
Million Dollar Quartet
Dear Lupin
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Post by theatremad on Nov 30, 2016 21:40:48 GMT
Few that I can think of:
Robert Holman's Bad Weather (RSC 1997)
Simon Stephens' Harper Reagan (NT)
Waves (NT)
Going to cause a stir as these are supposedly great, but I personally find them awful plays:
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 30, 2016 21:43:20 GMT
An Evening at the Talk House
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2016 21:57:04 GMT
Personally I hated The Flick. I do not know why it won a Pulitzer Prize, if it can win one I can easily write an awarding winning play.
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Post by lynette on Nov 30, 2016 22:07:24 GMT
Tamar's Revenge
The Villains' Opera
A while back both but we can't forget Vs' Opera because other half was violently sick on the way home. 😂😂
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2016 22:49:58 GMT
We Want You To Watch. Thoroughly execrable.
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Post by crabtree on Nov 30, 2016 23:16:00 GMT
Simply, The Mousetrap.
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Post by theatremadness on Nov 30, 2016 23:35:51 GMT
Yes, Barking In Essex was pretty bad but at least enjoyable for me, in part, because of its cast.
Even though it was pretty recent, I'm really struggling to find any part of The Entertainer that I enjoyed at all.
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Post by Jon on Nov 30, 2016 23:39:42 GMT
Yes, Barking In Essex was pretty bad but at least enjoyable for me, in part, because of its cast. Even though it was pretty recent, I'm really struggling to find any part of The Entertainer that I enjoyed at all. Barking in Essex became infamous because of behind the scenes fighting between Shelia Hancock and Keeley Hawes which lead to Keeley Hawes leaving two weeks before the show closed The Mike Leigh play Two Thousand Years was pretty hard to watch. |
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Post by theatremadness on Nov 30, 2016 23:46:18 GMT
Yes, Barking In Essex was pretty bad but at least enjoyable for me, in part, because of its cast. Even though it was pretty recent, I'm really struggling to find any part of The Entertainer that I enjoyed at all. Barking in Essex became infamous because of behind the scenes fighting between Shelia Hancock and Keeley Hawes which lead to Keeley Hawes leaving two weeks before the show closed Yes I heard about that! I managed to get to see it with the main cast still intact. I wondered whether anything like that would happen in Grey Gardens...obviously not. Just a massive clash of personalities, though it's not a particularly well kept rumour that Shelia Hankcock isn't the nicest person to work with (to put it mildly). |
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Post by Marwood on Dec 1, 2016 0:58:20 GMT
I thought The Mentalists was OK - not outstanding but I've seen worse over the years.
I agree about Evening At The Talk House - for me, Everyman was the worst play I've seen recently.
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Post by theatremad on Dec 1, 2016 6:23:44 GMT
Tamar's Revenge The Villains' Opera A while back both but we can't forget Vs' Opera because other half was violently sick on the way home. 😂😂 Guessing you mean the Spanish Golden Age play Tamar's Revenge? If so, it's a hard one, if you're referring to the RSC production then I came out hating the production rather than the play. The production was turgid and awful, and left me cold but the play was't bad I felt. On different note I loved The Flick and Everyman but couldn't agree more about Evening at the Snore House. |
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Post by Jan on Dec 1, 2016 7:37:24 GMT
Just as a play Damned by Despair takes some beating, when you add in the woefully poor production you have a recipe for catastrophe.
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Post by drmaplewood on Dec 1, 2016 9:04:33 GMT
Knot of the Heart at the Almeida in 2011. I will never get that time back.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 9:07:22 GMT
A Provincial Life which I had the misfortune of ushering for its seemingly endless but actually only a month run at the Sherman.
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Post by ldm2016 on Dec 1, 2016 9:30:58 GMT
An Evening at the Talk House is easily the worse thing I have seen in recent years...
Saw it doubled up with Here We Go too... My faith is theatre took a beating that night...
Not surprised to see Barking in Essex mentioned. First half wasn't too bad but the second was so awful it was scary.
Not exactly on topic but I absolutely love Antigone but the version at The Barbican last year was absolutely awful.
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Post by addictedtotheatre on Dec 1, 2016 9:54:32 GMT
Shopping and F***ing - not challenging, just ridiculous and vile (it didn't help that very early in the show a piece of 'fake' vomit landed on my head).
Gethsemane - horrid, and borderline anti-semitic
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep - just thinking about this still makes me angry at its relentless stupidity.
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Post by Marwood on Dec 1, 2016 9:59:59 GMT
I thought The Mentalists was OK - not outstanding but I've seen worse over the years. I agree about Evening At The Talk House - for me, Everyman was the worst play I've seen recently. Forgot to include The Painkiller - thought that was dreadful, like a rejected script for an episode of Duty Free. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 10:37:16 GMT
Shopping and F***ing - not challenging, just ridiculous and vile (it didn't help that very early in the show a piece of 'fake' vomit landed on my head). Yes, I agree that they should ideally have used readl vomit. Apart from that, I rate the Lyric Hammersmith production as one of the very best of the 125 theatre shows I'll have seen this year. The text alone leaves me underwhelmed but the production was terrific. Gethsemane - horrid, and borderline anti-semitic I lost all memory of this as I watched it, except that it just bored me rigid. If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep - just thinking about this still makes me angry at its relentless stupidity. I completely agree on this one. It struck me as so contrived as to give zero weight to its polemical purposes. However, I've benignly decided to give Anders Lustgarten a second chance and am going to see The Seven Acts of Mercy in the new year. I'm studiously avoiding its thread and all reviews until after I've seen the show, but I see that it seems to be building up a lot of posts on here for a Swan play. |
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Post by Snciole on Dec 1, 2016 11:15:09 GMT
Does fringe count? I would put the recent Theatre N16 production of Undead Bard, which I wrote about on my blog. It was a stunning misjudgment from not only the theatre but from Robert Crighton. I didn't really enjoy the RSC Doctor Faustus either. A Woman Killed with Kindness was terrible but most of the worst plays I have seen I have left at the interval like Children of the Sun and She Stoops to Conquer (I definitely escape from more NT productions than anywhere else) but I've started going to the theatre with friends and my partner more so I escape less because I have others to consider. |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Dec 1, 2016 11:32:17 GMT
Yes, Barking In Essex was pretty bad but at least enjoyable for me, in part, because of its cast. Even though it was pretty recent, I'm really struggling to find any part of The Entertainer that I enjoyed at all. Ditto to both above. I'd throw Dr Faustus in there too, altho I enjoyed Kit Harington's bum and the lovely Jenna Russell. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 14:28:34 GMT
Another vote for 'An Evening At The Talk House' and 'The Suicide'. I'd rather eat my own liver than sit through either of those again.
For some reason that recent dreadful production of 'Medea' came to mind too. Oh and the Benny Cummerbund 'Hamlet' as well. Lovely staircase. Mind and buttock numbingly boring production.
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 1, 2016 14:40:59 GMT
Another vote for 'An Evening At The Talk House' and 'The Suicide'. I'd rather eat my own liver than sit through either of those again. [ I'll get the fava beans and a nice chianti |
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Post by Jan on Dec 1, 2016 17:10:59 GMT
Another vote for 'An Evening At The Talk House' and 'The Suicide'. I'd rather eat my own liver than sit through either of those again. For some reason that recent dreadful production of 'Medea' came to mind too. Oh and the Benny Cummerbund 'Hamlet' as well. Lovely staircase. Mind and buttock numbingly boring production. I assumed the subject was about the worst play (text) rather than production. If the latter then the RSC/Wooster Group Troilus and Cressida stands alone as an offensively bad production of a play that is otherwise always produced well in my experience. I liked that Almeida Medea a lot incidentally. |
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Post by Boob on Dec 1, 2016 18:16:43 GMT
Almeida MEDEA gets another vote from me in the thumbs down category.
Two stand outs for me, though, are from the early days of the VF régime at the Royal Court - nul points to both THE RITUAL SLAUGHTER OF GORGE MASTROMAS and THE MISTRESSS CONTRACT. Two of the most painful evenings at the theatre in recent memory.
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