Post by Jan on Mar 12, 2017 16:37:37 GMT
Co-produced by the Lyric and Belvoir Theatre Sydney this has some good actors in it - Michael Feast, Roger Sloman etc. The gimmick is that old actors (a currently in-demand group) play current seventeen year olds. Not a new idea, who can forget Colin Welland wearing massive shorts blubbling his way through Dennis Potter's "Blue Remembered Hills", but an idea that could be entertaining.
Unfortunately here it is very badly executed, the text simply doesn't reflect the way modern seventeen years olds speak, the speech patterns are wrong and the accents are wrong too (they are more like the accents of teenagers from when the actors themselves were young) - partly this must be because it is an Australian play and an Australian director, partly it must be just poor preparation. The result is fairly pointless.
Unfortunately here it is very badly executed, the text simply doesn't reflect the way modern seventeen years olds speak, the speech patterns are wrong and the accents are wrong too (they are more like the accents of teenagers from when the actors themselves were young) - partly this must be because it is an Australian play and an Australian director, partly it must be just poor preparation. The result is fairly pointless.
