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Post by dani on Sept 20, 2017 10:53:20 GMT
I like Juliet Stevenson and am thinking about going to this. I haven't seen the play before. Has anyone seen the play or this current production?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 11:00:38 GMT
I've seen this one. It's beautifully short (80 minutes) but quite strange. Juliet Stevenson is on stage (sort of) for the entire piece, and very rarely touches the ground, and it starts off pretty disjointed but gradually gets more coherent as it goes on. Standard Young Vic fare though, if I'm being honest.  Certainly worth a trip if you're a Stevenson fan, I'd say. |
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 20, 2017 12:48:55 GMT
Yippee, Paul McCartney's got the band back together, with Juliet Stevenson being Linda. Please tell me they play Mull of Kintyre.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 20, 2017 12:49:53 GMT
Yippee, Paul McCartney's got the band back together, with Juliet Stevenson being Linda. Please tell me they play Mull of Kintyre.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 20, 2017 23:57:25 GMT
Just got back from this. Slightly bizarre but spectacular. Such a remarkable performance.
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Post by sf on Sept 21, 2017 0:44:20 GMT
I've never seen the play, but I've read it. I'm seeing this in a couple of weeks. It's unusual, but on the page it's fascinating. I'm looking forward to it.
Believe it or not, there is a musical version. I've never seen it, but I have the CD; it isn't an easy ride, but some of it is quite beautiful.
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Post by lonlad on Sept 21, 2017 7:27:12 GMT
yes, the musical WINGS was, I gather, seen briefly in the UK in Harrogate yonks ago - they're very keen to do it in London but so far no dice - they had wanted Julia McKenzie to play the part but that ship sailed eons ago.
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Post by sf on Oct 5, 2017 11:06:52 GMT
...and now I've seen the play (at yesterday's matinee).
Stevenson is remarkable and so is the staging. It's not a show where you can sit back and let it wash over you,but the text and production pull out all the stops to take you inside a stroke victim's mind, and (as far as anyone who hasn't been through it can tell) I think they succeed. It's spectacular, unsettling, and very moving, and Stevenson's performance is extraordinary, and not only because she (literally) barely touches the ground for most of the show.
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Post by loureviews on Oct 5, 2017 11:55:15 GMT
Going on Saturday. It sounds just up my street and I am a big Stevenson fan, so all good.
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Post by joem on Oct 5, 2017 22:07:52 GMT
If Stevenson isn't our finest living stage actress she must be pretty damn close.
This is not an easy play to watch. It does succeed in gettng into the mind of a stroke victim, I guess, but it's not very approachable. The trapeze gimmick is efective I suppose but tiring and not just for la Stevenson.
Interesting post-play discussion tonight.
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Post by loureviews on Oct 7, 2017 20:22:37 GMT
Really enjoyed it and found it ultimately uplifting. Stevenson is marvellous and the set and light work is clever.
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Post by dlevi on Oct 9, 2017 13:49:59 GMT
I'm a longtime fan of both the play and the musical version of it, as well as of Ms Stevenson and I have to say this production was a sizable disappointment to me. I felt that Ms Abrahami's direction was an intrusion onMr Kopit's text which presents the mental terror of what's happening inside a stroke victims mind, Ms Abrahami's direction made it seem like a great deal of fun. Somewhere in all that cleverness I felt that the play got lost.
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Post by peggs on Oct 25, 2017 20:22:31 GMT
Well I've just come out a whole lot more scared of strokes, didn't seem much fun to me. Quite a difficult one to vocalise my thoughts but I feel rather haunted and unsettled by the experience and not some small bit of wonder that it's possible to do such a physical performance at the same time as portraying the emotion and not being sick.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 30, 2017 20:29:57 GMT
Wow this is good. Really thought provoking and the staging and lighting was really good. Juliet Stephenson is bloody good eh. What a performance. Best play I have seen for awhile. My national treasure
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Certainly worth a trip if you're a Stevenson fan, I'd say.
