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Post by Always@thetheatre on Jul 26, 2023 17:33:42 GMT
We're seeing this from onstage seats on Saturday at the matinee performance and the info from ATG hasn't been that clear really... Do we have to go anywhere specific or is it the idea that you're there so early all the onstage people have been identified? They will tell you where to go once you show your ticket and get given a wristband at the door, but basically you go all the way down to the stalls entrance then check in with someone and they send you through to where the special bar is :-) |
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Post by craig on Jul 26, 2023 18:26:29 GMT
We're seeing this from onstage seats on Saturday at the matinee performance and the info from ATG hasn't been that clear really... Do we have to go anywhere specific or is it the idea that you're there so early all the onstage people have been identified? They will tell you where to go once you show your ticket and get given a wristband at the door, but basically you go all the way down to the stalls entrance then check in with someone and they send you through to where the special bar is :-) Brilliant, thank you! |
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Post by solotheatregoer on Jul 26, 2023 20:50:49 GMT
I saw this for the third time yesterday and I have to say the more you see it and know what’s coming, the far less impactful it becomes. I know this has been a long run and the cast are still doing a great job but it did feel a little mechanical and a little overacted in places actually. They must all be exhausted. I still love this production but I think I’m ready to say goodbye to it now. Did I just book cinema tickets to see it for the fourth and final time? Of course I did! Really curious to see how this was filmed. Also, a nice surprise to see Elliot Cowan pop up a few times in the new TV series Fifteen Love. I’ve not seen any of his previous work but interested to know what he does next. |
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Post by codydale on Jul 27, 2023 10:34:16 GMT
Does anyone know if there is a list/compilation of songs used in the background throughout the play? I have searched everywhere I could think of and I didn’t see it in the program, but haven’t found anything besides knowing the much more audible Wake Up by Arcade Fire while Jude and Willem are dancing.
Maybe anyone who has seen the performance more than once can remember a few? 😉
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Post by Dave B on Jul 27, 2023 10:44:46 GMT
Maybe anyone who has seen the performance more than once can remember a few? 😉 This might help 
Official playlist from the play conceived and directed by Ivo van Hove, based on the novel by Hanya Yanagihara. -
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Post by codydale on Jul 27, 2023 14:31:23 GMT
This might help
Official playlist from the play conceived and directed by Ivo van Hove, based on the novel by Hanya Yanagihara. -
Thank you!!! This is what I get for not having Spotify 🙃 |
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Post by iwanttix on Jul 29, 2023 17:57:38 GMT
Just heard, it is indeed transferring to Broadway with west end cast. Where did you hear this? The thought of this play and cast existing somewhere I'm not is making me want to book a flight asap 🤣 |
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 29, 2023 19:13:13 GMT
I'm sure they will be taking a well deserved rest first and if true it would have been hugely helped by the writers strike especially in Thompson's case as he would be locked into Bridgerton and especially as he is probably set to lead Series 4.
Or alternatively it could be over a year away and Series 4 done and dusted for him. Whatever the case he won't be able to do it if it isn't around their timetable.
But what a career opportunity for all if so. But very much a marmite production. Wonder how it will go down.
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Post by theatreliker on Jul 30, 2023 6:39:51 GMT
If enjoy is the right word, we really enjoyed this yesterday afternoon. There was a show stop in act 1 due to a fainter in the stalls. We had a fainter in the circle during the second act but the show wasn't stopped.
We were offered an upgrade from the back of the grand circle to middle of row C in the dress circle for £25. We took this up and it was totally worth it we felt.
I was fascinated by the video design which I thought worked really well. How was it filmed? Was it all one sequence? I didn't see any breaks in it. Great performances too!
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Post by A.Ham on Jul 30, 2023 7:38:07 GMT
Just heard, it is indeed transferring to Broadway with west end cast. If true, then that’s brilliant news for all involved. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything else in the theatre that’s had such an impact on me and stuck in my mind so much since seeing it (hence having to go back for a second visit last week!). The cast absolutely need a long break before resuming, but I’d assume they’re scheduling 2024 dates for Broadway. If so, as others have said, the writers strike and production shut downs may well have made this viable if Bridgerton filming is on hold. |
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 30, 2023 8:40:22 GMT
If enjoy is the right word, we really enjoyed this yesterday afternoon. There was a show stop in act 1 due to a fainter in the stalls. We had a fainter in the circle during the second act but the show wasn't stopped. We were offered an upgrade from the back of the grand circle to middle of row C in the dress circle for £25. We took this up and it was totally worth it we felt. I was fascinated by the video design which I thought worked really well. How was it filmed? Was it all one sequence? I didn't see any breaks in it. Great performances too! I wonder what caused them to faint? I mean I knew there was self harm and I wouldn't have gone to see it if blood and these things disturbed me. I was a bit concerned about the nudity but I knew I could go all five year old and metaphorically put my hands over my eyes (in the end barely registered). The only slight bit of eroticness (if that’s a word) to the nudity was Thompsons and you are very focused on Jude then anyway. The abuse was hard to take in places and the part I felt at times winching against but I’m Irish and grew up with this stuff in the media all through my childhood. I wouldn’t consider going to see this play just for a chance to see the sexy Vicar and psycho and one of the Bridgerton brothers. It does come with trigger warnings. I get why people would though but perhaps to your own unease . Why put yourself through that. The night ai went there was no issues at all and didn’t see anyone leave. However, you do never really know how you will respond to things and I was actually challenged by myself that I sat there rapt and largely unblinking through all of it until the end when I did feel myself becoming more and more upset and teared up. Likewise recently read Demon Copperhead and consider it a master piece and others are similarly criticising it for being unrelenting and miserable. I found it honest of a certain section of life and experience. To be honest the one that surprised me the most is Thompson because I had never seen him on stage but now understand he has had a really good reputation. I obviously have only seen him in Bridgerton and to be honest couldn’t tell the three brothers apart for the entirety of the first season. I would gladly pay to see him in anything now to be honest and he may be the one who finds this, stage career wise, a defining moment to get the big roles. Norton is so brave but I knew he could act. Not to be dismissive in any way at all of either him or TV actors (in this case Thompson) but sometimes it’s the ones who you first see in froth (extremely well produced and acted though Bridgerton is) you stop and think: Hang on you’re really really good. Challenges your own prejudices and preconceptions too. Norton has had that moment in TV when Granchester, War and Peace and HV started to come out. Elliot Cowan in this too. Made me consider going to anything else he is in also. |
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Post by solotheatregoer on Jul 30, 2023 9:25:11 GMT
To be honest the one that surprised me the most is Thompson because I had never seen him on stage but now understand he has had a really good reputation. I obviously have only seen him in Bridgerton and to be honest couldn’t tell the three brothers apart for the entirety of the first season. I would gladly pay to see him in anything now to be honest and he may be the one who finds this, stage career wise, a defining moment to get the big roles. Norton is so brave but I knew he could act. Not to be dismissive in any way at all of either him or TV actors (in this case Thompson) but sometimes it’s the ones who you first see in froth (extremely well produced and acted though Bridgerton is) you stop and think: Hang on you’re really really good. Challenges your own prejudices and preconceptions too. Norton has had that moment in TV when Granchester, War and Peace and HV started to come out. Elliot Cowan in this too. Made me consider going to anything else he is in also. Completely agree with this. I also mistook which 'Luke from Bridgerton' I would be seeing when I saw this for the first time (I thought it was Luke Newton!). But Luke Thompson has been the standout for me during this production. He doesn't have a huge back catalog but I'd love to see more of him. I hope he does more theatre in future. |
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Post by clarefh on Jul 30, 2023 11:11:19 GMT
Luke Thompson was excellent as Laertes in the Andrew Scott Hamlet ( was also in the Mckellen Lear). I’d love to see him in some Shakespeare again.
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 30, 2023 11:11:20 GMT
To be honest the one that surprised me the most is Thompson because I had never seen him on stage but now understand he has had a really good reputation. I obviously have only seen him in Bridgerton and to be honest couldn’t tell the three brothers apart for the entirety of the first season. I would gladly pay to see him in anything now to be honest and he may be the one who finds this, stage career wise, a defining moment to get the big roles. Norton is so brave but I knew he could act. Not to be dismissive in any way at all of either him or TV actors (in this case Thompson) but sometimes it’s the ones who you first see in froth (extremely well produced and acted though Bridgerton is) you stop and think: Hang on you’re really really good. Challenges your own prejudices and preconceptions too. Norton has had that moment in TV when Granchester, War and Peace and HV started to come out. Elliot Cowan in this too. Made me consider going to anything else he is in also. Completely agree with this. I also mistook which 'Luke from Bridgerton' I would be seeing when I saw this for the first time (I thought it was Luke Newton!). But Luke Thompson has been the standout for me during this production. He doesn't have a huge back catalog but I'd love to see more of him. I hope he does more theatre in future. I think he has been making a name for himself in the theatre world particularly at the Globe and Almedia and a lot of Shakespeare. He was in Scott's Hamlet and if I remember rightly maybe some other really well received stuff but smaller characters. However if you consider timings he must have come out of RADA in 2013...I've heard him say he went there with Buckley and thats the year she graduated because I saw her in the Tempest at the Globe that summer with Allam. I think he was also in plays there that summer but not that one. 6 years later he went into Bridgerton and then lockdown. Not long really to make a name for yourself. Unless you get this one movie or TV gig making a name in theatre takes a while. Anyway I think he is probably there now with this. I think a lot is snobbery about culture which seems light weight. Everyone at my work watches Bridgerton but many would say but yeah it's rubbish but I love it. Which got me thinking about it because it isn't rubbish. The story its based on is slight and mills and boony but its amazingly well acted and its production values are absolutely astounding from production design, costume, director, music. To be honest this came from the second series which, perhaps given the lead, seemed higher quality but also could be the characters bedding in because like I said I couldn't tell one brother from another in the 1st. If Thompson played Darcy in a BBC Pride and Prej no one would doubt he had immense talent going into this. No one doubted Norton even before he was in HV because he played a vicar in a sweet ITV drama and the lead in a BBC Andrew Davies literary heavy weight drama. I saw S.Ronan in Macbeth at the Almedia...first time on stage and never once doubted she'd be amazing because I'd been told repeatedly over years from her heavy weight film work that she was great. To be fair she was great in everything I saw but also she had the critical weight behind her. I think sometimes we need to get our heads out of our behind about how we view things we consider lightweight. Why because it is about romance or has mass appeal or whatever? Sometimes you want cavier and somethings a burger and chips. The likes of Bridgerton may be burger and chips but its high quality ingredients and tools and ovens. And you know what I have never not enjoyed a Mills and Boon. Just wouldn't want to read just that. Balance in everything. |
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2023 11:14:23 GMT
Saoirse Ronan had done The Crucible on Broadway before Macbeth at the Almeida.
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 30, 2023 11:19:04 GMT
Saoirse Ronan had done The Crucible on Broadway before Macbeth at the Almeida. Yes. I hadn't seen that though. I knew she was well received. I went in to Macbeth thinking she'll be great. I mean she was. But you just expect her to be. It isn't going to make anyone think to go 'Saorise Ronan was really brilliant.' I mean obviously. I huge stress upon her personally because once you have that expectation you have to maintain it. I don't think that's how she, or anyone else, would see it though because it's a job at the end of the day and each challenging in its own way. Most things are about 20% ability and 80% sheer hard work. |
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Post by teamyali on Jul 30, 2023 15:13:19 GMT
Good to know that the Broadway prospect is coming soon with the West End cast, although I’ve been thinking that Lee Pace could make a good Jude, and he’s also well-known especially with his current work in the Apple TV+ series Foundation (season 2 currently streaming). His recent stage credits were Angels in America (in 2018, taking over Russell Tovey’s role in the NT) and The Normal Heart (in 2011), both on Broadway. Recently he followed Hanya’s Instagram account. He most likely read the book and loved it, and maybe he did see the West End show during his stay in London weeks before the strike. Plus season 3 of Foundation is now delayed due to the strikes, and who knows how long will it last.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2023 15:32:34 GMT
I'd love to see Lee Pace and/or Zachary Quinto in a Broadway cast if everyone from London doesn't transfer (assuming that happens).
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 30, 2023 15:58:11 GMT
I'd love to see Lee Pace and/or Zachary Quinto in a Broadway cast if everyone from London doesn't transfer (assuming that happens). Wouldn’t both be slightly two old for the central quartet as played at the moment. I do find it interesting though who people think can do characters. Rumoured Whishaw was wanted for this which I get from a physicality point of view. He does small, vulnerable and damaged well but it’s not all he can do. And people saying Garfield too. Why? Because of Angels. I from any of his previous work couldn’t see him playing Jude. No one would have picked Norton for Jude or really a Bridgerton brother. Point of their job though to play a wide variety of parts. I doubt Garfield if approached would have been interested. He didn’t want to take Angels to Broadway he’d had enough misery. Nobody wants to repeat. I doubt Norton will take a similar role again although he will be offered I am sure. They work so well together the cast I almost would want to see all go or none go. Given the nature of it they most have had to build a massive amount of trust up together as a unit. |
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Post by Jon on Jul 30, 2023 16:14:53 GMT
Completely agree with this. I also mistook which 'Luke from Bridgerton' I would be seeing when I saw this for the first time (I thought it was Luke Newton!). But Luke Thompson has been the standout for me during this production. He doesn't have a huge back catalog but I'd love to see more of him. I hope he does more theatre in future. I think he has been making a name for himself in the theatre world particularly at the Globe and Almedia and a lot of Shakespeare. He was in Scott's Hamlet and if I remember rightly maybe some other really well received stuff but smaller characters. However if you consider timings he must have come out of RADA in 2013...I've heard him say he went there with Buckley and thats the year she graduated because I saw her in the Tempest at the Globe that summer with Allam. I think he was also in plays there that summer but not that one. 6 years later he went into Bridgerton and then lockdown. Not long really to make a name for yourself. Unless you get this one movie or TV gig making a name in theatre takes a while. Anyway I think he is probably there now with this. I think a lot is snobbery about culture which seems light weight. Everyone at my work watches Bridgerton but many would say but yeah it's rubbish but I love it. Which got me thinking about it because it isn't rubbish. The story its based on is slight and mills and boony but its amazingly well acted and its production values are absolutely astounding from production design, costume, director, music. To be honest this came from the second series which, perhaps given the lead, seemed higher quality but also could be the characters bedding in because like I said I couldn't tell one brother from another in the 1st. If Thompson played Darcy in a BBC Pride and Prej no one would doubt he had immense talent going into this. No one doubted Norton even before he was in HV because he played a vicar in a sweet ITV drama and the lead in a BBC Andrew Davies literary heavy weight drama. I saw S.Ronan in Macbeth at the Almedia...first time on stage and never once doubted she'd be amazing because I'd been told repeatedly over years from her heavy weight film work that she was great. To be fair she was great in everything I saw but also she had the critical weight behind her. I think sometimes we need to get our heads out of our behind about how we view things we consider lightweight. Why because it is about romance or has mass appeal or whatever? Sometimes you want cavier and somethings a burger and chips. The likes of Bridgerton may be burger and chips but its high quality ingredients and tools and ovens. And you know what I have never not enjoyed a Mills and Boon. Just wouldn't want to read just that. Balance in everything. I would make a slight correction but Happy Valley aired before Grantchester. It was a strange turn going from serial killer to vicar in one year. |
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 30, 2023 16:26:05 GMT
I think he has been making a name for himself in the theatre world particularly at the Globe and Almedia and a lot of Shakespeare. He was in Scott's Hamlet and if I remember rightly maybe some other really well received stuff but smaller characters. However if you consider timings he must have come out of RADA in 2013...I've heard him say he went there with Buckley and thats the year she graduated because I saw her in the Tempest at the Globe that summer with Allam. I think he was also in plays there that summer but not that one. 6 years later he went into Bridgerton and then lockdown. Not long really to make a name for yourself. Unless you get this one movie or TV gig making a name in theatre takes a while. Anyway I think he is probably there now with this. I think a lot is snobbery about culture which seems light weight. Everyone at my work watches Bridgerton but many would say but yeah it's rubbish but I love it. Which got me thinking about it because it isn't rubbish. The story its based on is slight and mills and boony but its amazingly well acted and its production values are absolutely astounding from production design, costume, director, music. To be honest this came from the second series which, perhaps given the lead, seemed higher quality but also could be the characters bedding in because like I said I couldn't tell one brother from another in the 1st. If Thompson played Darcy in a BBC Pride and Prej no one would doubt he had immense talent going into this. No one doubted Norton even before he was in HV because he played a vicar in a sweet ITV drama and the lead in a BBC Andrew Davies literary heavy weight drama. I saw S.Ronan in Macbeth at the Almedia...first time on stage and never once doubted she'd be amazing because I'd been told repeatedly over years from her heavy weight film work that she was great. To be fair she was great in everything I saw but also she had the critical weight behind her. I think sometimes we need to get our heads out of our behind about how we view things we consider lightweight. Why because it is about romance or has mass appeal or whatever? Sometimes you want cavier and somethings a burger and chips. The likes of Bridgerton may be burger and chips but its high quality ingredients and tools and ovens. And you know what I have never not enjoyed a Mills and Boon. Just wouldn't want to read just that. Balance in everything. I would make a slight correction but Happy Valley aired before Grantchester. It was a strange turn going from serial killer to vicar in one year. Oh yes he did really erupt and if I remember rightly War and Peace may have been on at the same time as HV 2 or shortly after it. He was huge by the time HV2 was airing. I always pictured him as being slightly like Sydney based on nothing more than he too is quite a posh, Cambridge educated guy. So therefore he talks like him and has his hair. Could just as likely be like his HV character. |
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Post by craig on Jul 30, 2023 21:09:03 GMT
There was a show stop in act 1 due to a fainter in the stalls. We had a fainter in the circle during the second act but the show wasn't stopped. Poor old James Norton sat there starkers whilst people started shouting for an ambulance in the stalls! It was all handled fantastically though. Excellent work by cast and crew. We were in the front row of the stage seats and found this production quite an unforgettable and special experience. From the cast being touching distance from us, the sensory overload of the smell of bacon and cleaning products, the sheer weight of the trauma unfolding in front of us... An event theatrical experience if ever there was one. I'm honestly still quite taken aback by the places James Norton went to during this. I think the word fearless is probably a bit overused in theatrical terms but this was an absolutely fearless performance. Van Hove and Norton really took the depiction of Jude's abuse to the absolute limits, I think, of what can be shown on stage. It was genuinely quite distressing and I don't know how Norton does it every night. But beyond the nudity, the physical violence, the degradation, the stuff many actors just wouldn't do, there was a performance for the ages that will be talked about for the rest of Norton's career. It reached a crescendo for me towards the end of Act 2 whilst Jude sat in his wheelchair, unable to process the latest misery inflicted upon him. He said nothing. You could have heard a pin drop. The couching and the fidgeting melted away and we all sat there enraptured by this man's wordless performance. It was as exquisite as it was heartbreaking. Zubin Varla too was just wonderful. A master at work, IMO. My partner said he will never forget how haunted Varla looked during the curtain call. I'm not a parent but I felt everything Harold went through. Luke Thompson was also excellent, and I think this will help to cement his viability as a future leading man in serious theatrical productions. Elliot Cowan was sensational in roles that must be almost as tough to play as Norton's. He was so nuanced, it never fell into caricature which I think it would be easy to do. All of that said, I think the play itself just isn't that good, particularly during the lighter moments at the start. It moves at breakneck speed trying to fit too much in to too short a space of time. As someone who's never read the book, some of it seemed completely pointless, like JB's jealousy of Jude, which felt jarring and added nothing. I imagine it's sacrilegious to those who love the book, but I'm not even convinced it made theatrical sense to have Malcolm and JB in the play at all. Dr Andy's character was ludicrous, and his implausibly long list of medical specialities were distracting. "I'll perform the operation myself!" Er, can't I have a leg surgeon instead, please? Direction wise, I thought it was one of Van Hove's better recent efforts. The now ubiquitous video screens were well used and aided the feel of the piece. He wasn't afraid to keep it brutal and literal and confrontational and it reminded me a little of the in-yer-face theatre of the late nineties and early noughties (a formative style that I loved in my teens!) I thought the stage seating was an inspired idea, forcing the audience sitting in both directions to see the reactions of their fellow patrons as it all unfolds. The lighting coming up on the audience too... No passive voyeurism allowed here, nor a safety blanket of anonymity. It was confronting in the extreme. One of the lines that I found very moving was Jude's "Not having sex: it was one of the best things about being an adult." Utterly harrowing, and inconceivable to those of us fortunate enough to have had safe childhoods. Van Hove states, amongst other things, in the programme that it's a dissection of the overvaluation of sexuality in relationships. I wish this had been explored more in the play text as it was fascinating to watch Jude and Willem navigate their relationship, but it was ultimately quite fleeting. Probably a 3 star play for me, but the 5 star performances elevated it hugely. |
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Post by BVM on Jul 30, 2023 21:31:49 GMT
There was a show stop in act 1 due to a fainter in the stalls. We had a fainter in the circle during the second act but the show wasn't stopped. Poor old James Norton sat there starkers whilst people started shouting for an ambulance in the stalls! It was all handled fantastically though. Excellent work by cast and crew. We were in the front row of the stage seats and found this production quite an unforgettable and special experience. From the cast being touching distance from us, the sensory overload of the smell of bacon and cleaning products, the sheer weight of the trauma unfolding in front of us... An event theatrical experience if ever there was one. I'm honestly still quite taken aback by the places James Norton went to during this. I think the word fearless is probably a bit overused in theatrical terms but this was an absolutely fearless performance. Van Hove and Norton really took the depiction of Jude's abuse to the absolute limits, I think, of what can be shown on stage. It was genuinely quite distressing and I don't know how Norton does it every night. But beyond the nudity, the physical violence, the degradation, the stuff many actors just wouldn't do, there was a performance for the ages that will be talked about for the rest of Norton's career. It reached a crescendo for me towards the end of Act 2 whilst Jude sat in his wheelchair, unable to process the latest misery inflicted upon him. He said nothing. You could have heard a pin drop. The couching and the fidgeting melted away and we all sat there enraptured by this man's wordless performance. It was as exquisite as it was heartbreaking. Zubin Varla too was just wonderful. A master at work, IMO. My partner said he will never forget how haunted Varla looked during the curtain call. I'm not a parent but I felt everything Harold went through. Luke Thompson was also excellent, and I think this will help to cement his viability as a future leading man in serious theatrical productions. Elliot Cowan was sensational in roles that must be almost as tough to play as Norton's. He was so nuanced, it never fell into caricature which I think it would be easy to do. All of that said, I think the play itself just isn't that good, particularly during the lighter moments at the start. It moves at breakneck speed trying to fit too much in to too short a space of time. As someone who's never read the book, some of it seemed completely pointless, like JB's jealousy of Jude, which felt jarring and added nothing. I imagine it's sacrilegious to those who love the book, but I'm not even convinced it made theatrical sense to have Malcolm and JB in the play at all. Dr Andy's character was ludicrous, and his implausibly long list of medical specialities were distracting. "I'll perform the operation myself!" Er, can't I have a leg surgeon instead, please? Direction wise, I thought it was one of Van Hove's better recent efforts. The now ubiquitous video screens were well used and aided the feel of the piece. He wasn't afraid to keep it brutal and literal and confrontational and it reminded me a little of the in-yer-face theatre of the late nineties and early noughties (a formative style that I loved in my teens!) I thought the stage seating was an inspired idea, forcing the audience sitting in both directions to see the reactions of their fellow patrons as it all unfolds. The lighting coming up on the audience too... No passive voyeurism allowed here, nor a safety blanket of anonymity. It was confronting in the extreme. One of the lines that I found very moving was Jude's "Not having sex: it was one of the best things about being an adult." Utterly harrowing, and inconceivable to those of us fortunate enough to have had safe childhoods. Van Hove states, amongst other things, in the programme that it's a dissection of the overvaluation of sexuality in relationships. I wish this had been explored more in the play text as it was fascinating to watch Jude and Willem navigate their relationship, but it was ultimately quite fleeting. Probably a 3 star play for me, but the 5 star performances elevated it hugely. Absolutely fantastic review - was gonna leave one myself but think you've expressed everything I felt about it. Only difference is sadly we had an audience shout out (see Bad Behaviour thread) at the key moment about not having sex you reference. Which was a shame, as should have been harrowing but woman next to me found it a bit of a joke. But still, extraordinary theatrical experience and so glad I went. Agree 5 star performance of a 3 star play. I saw a matinee and honestly James Norton had left everything out there - had no idea how he could find the energy to do it all again for the evening show. Remarkable. |
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Post by craig on Jul 30, 2023 22:56:07 GMT
Absolutely fantastic review - was gonna leave one myself but think you've expressed everything I felt about it. Only difference is sadly we had an audience shout out (see Bad Behaviour thread) at the key moment about not having sex you reference. Which was a shame, as should have been harrowing but woman next to me found it a bit of a joke. But still, extraordinary theatrical experience and so glad I went. Agree 5 star performance of a 3 star play. I saw a matinee and honestly James Norton had left everything out there - had no idea how he could find the energy to do it all again for the evening show. Remarkable. I've just read the bad behaviour thread. Wow. I'm sorry you (and the rest of the audience) had to contend with that. |
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