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Post by johnv47 on Feb 6, 2017 16:04:30 GMT
The winter season at Chichester is always quieter, but still no excuse to have missed this. Gone now... a fine production.
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Post by johnv47 on Jan 16, 2017 20:08:12 GMT
Agree absolutely. Not much made of it, as the play is so familiar, but this really was a fantastic production. Would urge people to see it in Chichester next week. It hasn't quite vanished into the ether just yet. I saw it three times!
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Post by johnv47 on Dec 16, 2016 8:45:35 GMT
"And the award for Most Acting goes to... "another example of the anointed doing what they like and people falling for it. Turgid, indulgent and overblown. Emperors new clothes.
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Post by johnv47 on Dec 16, 2016 8:39:20 GMT
Saw this the other night. It's a great play. You can see why it lasted so long first time round. I have seen several casts do this. I saw Richard Griffiths as Ivan. Astonishing. I saw Mark Williams, not so good. Best was League of Gentlemen - the last cast of Art in the west end. Three ACTUAL friends of the amount of time the characters have been. Ritter is good in this. They inhabit it well.
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Post by johnv47 on Nov 9, 2016 15:45:38 GMT
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Post by johnv47 on Nov 8, 2016 15:30:11 GMT
I thought this was ok nothing more. Wasn't keen on the first act at all - particularly when it was just the main two but the supporting cast particularly Harriet Thorpe perked things up. It gets a lot better after the interval but never really hits the heights for me. By the end I didn't feel anything for Norman, I was just tired of listening to him ranting on. I'm not sure if that was just the character of Shearsmith's performance which did nothing for me. I thought he was fantastic. Deft, cruel, funny, nasty and pathetic. So detailed. The play is called "The Dresser" so perhaps his ranting on was because he had a lot of lines. A very moving play I thought. If by its very period nature, a bit old fashioned.
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Post by johnv47 on Nov 8, 2016 15:26:13 GMT
I thought this was ok nothing more. Wasn't keen on the first act at all - particularly when it was just the main two but the supporting cast particularly Harriet Thorpe perked things up. It gets a lot better after the interval but never really hits the heights for me. By the end I didn't feel anything for Norman, I was just tired of listening to him ranting on. I'm not sure if that was just the character of Shearsmith's performance which did nothing for me.
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