Post by emsworthian on Feb 3, 2018 10:13:09 GMT
Apologies if there is already a thread on this but I couldn't find one.
I saw this yesterday at The Minerva, Chichester. I hadn't seen "The Weir" before and I thought The Minerva would be the ideal intimate setting for a play about customers in an Irish pub narrating ghost stories. However, the set was rammed into a corner of the stage; I was in the front row four seats along from the end far left and at the end of the performance I had a crick in my neck from looking to the left all the time. Ahead of me was an expanse of carpet where The Minerva's stage normally is.
This grumble aside, the acting was excellent. I enjoyed the play but I was expecting more of a twist at the end. It is another one to tick off in my edition of Michael Billington's "The 101 Greatest Plays - from Antiquity to the Present" but I'm not sure it would make my 101 greatest plays from the past 100 years, let alone since antiquity.