77 posts
|
Post by adolphus on Sept 22, 2022 19:22:48 GMT
Full marks to the Finborough for another great revival. Not performed since 1926, the themes of Kate O'Brien's only play maybe of their time, but it remains a powerful, brutal and intelligent piece that shouldn't have been neglected for so long. The insights into male depression are particularly acute and moving
I can't imagine the play being better acted than it is here by the entire cast, and the Finborough is the perfect venue with the audience increasingly sucked into the claustrophobia of the most respectable villa on the avenue
|
|
1,828 posts
|
Post by Dave B on Sept 23, 2022 15:13:10 GMT
My post from the random thread last week
Distinguished Villa - Finborough.
Period piece about a couple and their lodgers in 1920s Brixton. A lot of very relevant themes here, almost a hundred years later. Depression, trapped in perhaps a loveless marriage, striving to find something, to have something a little more. A cast of six with a couple of paper thin roles but some really strong work and a script that builds as it goes along. Nothing is rushed and everything is in there and goes along piece by piece. Strong work by Mia Austen as the wife and Matthew Ashforde as the husband.
|
|