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Post by partytentdown on Oct 18, 2018 15:09:35 GMT
I am so close to sacking this off tonight. Shall I go?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 15:24:52 GMT
Go, but give yourself permission to leave at the interval if you're not feeling it.
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Post by Rory on Oct 18, 2018 16:09:11 GMT
Appreciate your review, Andrew. I can't decide if it sounds interesting or ultra-irritating. I loved Icke's Oresteia, Hamlet and Mary Stuart and even The Red Barn (didn't see Uncle Vanya) so it might be worth a punt.
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Post by peggs on Oct 18, 2018 17:02:46 GMT
Thanks for the heads up andrew, can mentally prepare or probably would have been most unimpressed, will consider it as almost different play. Disappointing re duck. |
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Post by andrew on Oct 18, 2018 17:24:59 GMT
Reading my own review back, I make it sound terrible, the first act was just very mediocre, and it really does pick up in the latter half. The problem with leaving at the interval is you’ve sat through the worst bit at the expense of the best one, but I suppose if you really can’t stand it then maybe your hope of a pleasant evening is lost. I really did like this. I promise.
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Post by partytentdown on Oct 18, 2018 17:36:50 GMT
Reader, I've gone home.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Oct 18, 2018 17:59:28 GMT
I had a fantastic ticket for tonight (middle of row F) but I finished work early and felt knackered so popped up to the Almeida at 5.30pm and the BO lady kindly swapped my ticket for a matinee ticket in a few weeks. Not nearly as good a seat (Row D side stalls) but she said it’s a completely open set and so nothing is missed (just a side angle obvs). So now I am home on my sofa in my pants and looking forward to dinner, TV and an early night. BOOM SHAKALAKALAKA!
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Post by another100ppl on Oct 18, 2018 19:37:00 GMT
I posted in here last night a long review and then, for some reason, got cold feet about it and deleted it. Now that a few others have shared distaste for it, I'll be honest: I found the first act so insufferably dull, unexciting, obnoxious and mind-numbing that I left at the interval (like someone else appears to have done tonight?) Thanks Andrew for the commentary on act two as I was intrigued as to what I missed, but no matter how much better act two was going to be, I still would've hated the evening due to the insufferable first act. So surprised because I've loved everything else I've seen by Icke, but this was insultingly bad.
I'm glad that some people could find stuff to like in it though! I envy you as I really wanted to love this... but I really didn't. Lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 20:42:27 GMT
I had a fantastic ticket for tonight (middle of row F) but I finished work early and felt knackered so popped up to the Almeida at 5.30pm and the BO lady kindly swapped my ticket for a matinee ticket in a few weeks. Not nearly as good a seat (Row D side stalls) but she said it’s a completely open set and so nothing is missed (just a side angle obvs). So now I am home on my sofa in my pants and looking forward to dinner, TV and an early night. BOOM SHAKALAKALAKA! |
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Post by andrew on Oct 18, 2018 20:48:23 GMT
I had a fantastic ticket for tonight (middle of row F) but I finished work early and felt knackered so popped up to the Almeida at 5.30pm and the BO lady kindly swapped my ticket for a matinee ticket in a few weeks. Not nearly as good a seat (Row D side stalls) but she said it’s a completely open set and so nothing is missed (just a side angle obvs). So now I am home on my sofa in my pants and looking forward to dinner, TV and an early night. BOOM SHAKALAKALAKA! Picturing you now...  Wild duck? Nah... When I can purchase tickets to that show?! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 20:56:43 GMT
😔😔😔😔
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 21:43:31 GMT
AND SCENE |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2018 21:54:08 GMT
Spring for premium seats to this show.
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Post by johnnyutah on Oct 19, 2018 20:32:08 GMT
Beware.The following take is from a self confessed Robert Icke acolyte.
I saw this last night and was entranced. At first, we are greeted with a purposefully astringent opening. The artifice of what we're watching and how this translates to everyday life is well thought out. This introduction/lecture than leads to a deeply moving beautifully realised adaptation.
The audience are made aware of Icke's writing process and Ibsen's personal life. We are almost looking at the workshop version. It reminded me of Vanya on 42nd St. However, as always, this staged version has his usual elegance. The visual delights that mark his productions are absent. This stripped back aesthetic gives this family drama a homely reality. The cast are uniformly superb. If you get the chance, please go and see this affecting production from a theatrical one off.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 22:29:00 GMT
I saw this last night too and I have to say that I think it is a brilliant adaptation. It was like a Freudian analysis of the play’s subconscious, revealing truths and connections with the author’s life that Ibsen may or may not have been conscious of. I was hooked from the word go. I loved the stripped back set and was interested by my initial response to that: a yearning for theatrical artifice that the production at first denies us because the audience is being exposed as much as the characters are. We are however let off the hook as the play progresses and given what we want - a beautiful production of Ibsen’s poignant play. At first I found some of the meta-theatrical devices a bit trite - the bare stage, the actors’ commentaries - but as this went on I felt i’d been given tools to understand such a production. Highly recommended.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 22:44:04 GMT
AND SCENE Oh my! Who's that? Me likey! 😈 |
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Post by dani on Oct 20, 2018 11:54:54 GMT
More wild duck, less tame cock, please.
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Post by lynette on Oct 21, 2018 10:05:29 GMT
I don’t mind a bit of 'meta' but this doesn’t appeal to me. I always think well, write an essay about your thoughts on this masterpiece, don’t sit on its back. But it is a trend, this 'adaptation' stuff so I will have to put up with it for now.
ps, thought I'd strayed onto quite a different kind of site for a mo, there. This is a family, in its broadest definition, site, so don’t over do it. Ahem.
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Post by learfan on Oct 21, 2018 10:56:15 GMT
I don’t mind a bit of 'meta' but this doesn’t appeal to me. I always think well, write an essay about your thoughts on this masterpiece, don’t sit on its back. But it is a trend, this 'adaptation' stuff so I will have to put up with it for now. ps, thought I'd strayed onto quite a different kind of site for a mo, there. This is a family, in its broadest definition, site, so don’t over do it. Ahem. Indeed L, this kinda thing seems to be viewed as acceptable, not quite sure why. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 12:38:10 GMT
I don’t mind a bit of 'meta' but this doesn’t appeal to me. I always think well, write an essay about your thoughts on this masterpiece, don’t sit on its back. But it is a trend, this 'adaptation' stuff so I will have to put up with it for now. ps, thought I'd strayed onto quite a different kind of site for a mo, there. This is a family, in its broadest definition, site, so don’t over do it. Ahem. I should add that it is also a very moving experience. I have never seen characters onstage react in such a realistic way to the play’s final moments. I have to say that most of my favourite theatrical experiences this year have been at The Almeida. They have really taken risks and encouraged writers who push the boundaries of form. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 12:40:03 GMT
By the way, it’s so embarrassing when that photo appears when you are out in public.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 13:00:10 GMT
I’m going to book for this based on this thread.
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Post by stevemar on Oct 21, 2018 19:23:45 GMT
I am pretty much with Andrew on this play. I have to say, I needed to look up “meta” before the play, and it certainly is very knowing and workshop-like during the first half. This does illuminate the text though with references to the real life events that influenced Ibsen, and his own behaviour. The wish to “tell the truth” or just present one’s own version of it. My only criticism here is there was a lot of this - much of the first 1.5 hours, which was perhaps too much. I can see how this would divide the audience and the board, with some people seeing this as pretentious or just waiting for the play to begin. It was very Almeida, I liked it.
Fortunately, I was forearmed by the comments here, and the play really took off in the second half. So much drama, and, as with say Oresteia adapted freely by Robert Icke or Hamlet, the focus on the family drama and consequences so well done. I have been a big fan of Robert Icke’s work, and here he only slightly missed the mark with the exposition of the first half.
The acting was superb - particularly good to see Lyndsey Marshall again after her superlative performances some years ago in The Pride and Three Days of Rain. Clara Read as Hedwig was superb too.
8.5/10. 2hours 55min currently.
PS The front central stalls (not front row) suffer from the usual issue here with no rake, but particularly poor as the stage is at the same level as row AA so a lot of moving of heads to strain to see what was happening.
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Post by jadnoop on Oct 21, 2018 19:56:14 GMT
For the avoidance of doubt, are we saying that it's acceptable to have completely random erotica posted on this board?
I'm no prude, and accept that this will probably get me laughed off the messageboard, but I kinda feel like this is really pushing the line for what is a pretty family-friendly site. I accept that we are (presumably) all adults here and that the photo is not pornographic. However this has nothing to do with the discussion and seems to me to be a step up from the 'cheeky chappy' type content that is pretty common here.
(I know that some will say that I should use the report button, but since admin members have liked the posts, this is at least tacit acknowledgement and acceptance.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 20:12:48 GMT
I'm no prude, and accept that this will probably get me laughed off the messageboard, but I kinda feel like this is really pushing the line for what is a pretty family-friendly site. I accept that we are (presumably) all adults here and that the photo is not pornographic. However this has nothing to do with the discussion and seems to me to be a step up from the 'cheeky chappy' type content that is pretty common here. Agree completely. Also makes life difficult for people who may be browsing the site in public (as noted above) or at work. And has no relevance to the topic - would be different if (for instance) people posted publicity pics from The Inheritance in that thread. |
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