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Post by jason71 on Jun 30, 2018 14:46:37 GMT
I've not seen anybody mention this yet. Has anybody seen it? Or booked to see it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 16:15:46 GMT
Yes I saw the second or third preview
You might think this is predictable
But I left at the interval
It is so badly written
Inane
I did love Nine Night
Which is a band new play
If this is any consolation
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 16:20:40 GMT
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Post by foxa on Jun 30, 2018 21:04:32 GMT
Thanks for the links, Parsley!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 21:09:24 GMT
Thanks for the links, Parsley! There are some more positive reviews To be fair But I think it was dreadful |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 8:09:26 GMT
This has had pretty decent reviews - as far as I can see it has averaged 3 stars, which really isn’t bad for a first time writer. Despite the reservations of the critics - including our very own Parsley - I would be interested to see this. It sounds quite ambitious.
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Post by foxa on Jul 1, 2018 8:38:47 GMT
Lynn wrote Lela & Co which was on at the Royal Court in 2015 and is the winner of the 2017 Harold Pinter Prize/commission, plus she's done some other stuff.
I didn't see Lela & Co, but the premise of this sounded intriguing.
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Post by dramallama on Jul 2, 2018 10:13:39 GMT
I saw this on Saturday and thought it was alright. It certainly wasn't a masterpiece and the writing really wasn't my cup of tea (as parsley said, it's quite unrealistic and I also found it quite annoying that people constantly repeated each other's lines) but it did have strong moments in my opinion, mainly whenever one character went on a bit of a monologue. I felt like it could've used some cutting down but I am glad I stayed for the second half which was quite a bit better than the first in my opinion.
I think the subject matter is really important even though it made me quite uncomfortable. I'm massively afraid of everything that you could possibly be afraid of so I even get uncomfortable watching the news because bad things keep happening and it's tough to watch for me. Nevertheless, I think it's important to talk about these things (i.e. terrorism and fear), especially because they're uncomfortable and aren't fun to talk about. So I think it's good the play is tackling this, even though I'm not really sure it does it well at all times. Having said that, I would still encourage people to see it (if you can get a cheap ticket) because it has the potential to make you think about these matters.
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Post by foxa on Jul 24, 2018 8:56:24 GMT
The writer Vinay Patel has been posting on Twitter about this and his discomfort with the now pretty common trope of using a brown body to signify other and a source of fear to white middle class characters. He recognised the good intentions of it but didn't think it was the best approach.
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