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| “A very very very dark matter” is bafflingly terrible | |
| Last Edit: Leon_W 11:21 am EST 12/29/18 | |
| Posted by: Leon_W 11:13 am EST 12/29/18 | |
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| I saw “A Very Very Very Dark Matter” today, Martin McDonagh is my favorite playwrite and “The Pillowman” is my favorite play so my hopes for this were reasonably high with it being touted as a kind of follow on play. It really is bafflingly terrible, it isn’t funny or thrilling or interesting and it often just doesn’t make any sense. The physical production at the Bridge Theater in London is beautiful and Jim Broadbent gives it his all but it was a bitter disappointment to me overall. Brief story overview Spoilers The basic story is that Hans Christian Anderson keeps a Pygmy lady in a box and forces her to write his stories. Then two time traveling dead men covered in blood return from the future to try to kill the Pygmy woman because she will kill them in the Congo in the future. Ending Spoiler Early on there is a scene where only Hans can see the bloody men in a room full of people but they can be shot and killed proving they are physical people from the future not somehow spirits or ghosts so why could no one else in the room see them? |
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| re: “A very very very dark matter” is bafflingly terrible | |
| Posted by: sf 02:10 pm EST 12/29/18 | |
| In reply to: “A very very very dark matter” is bafflingly terrible - Leon_W 11:13 am EST 12/29/18 | |
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| It really is very, very, very bad, isn't it? I saw it at the end of October, and I'm afraid I came away thinking I'd just seen the unedited first draft of Mr. McDonagh's script. The result is a mess, and relies far too much on easy laughs. I could see where he was trying to go with it, but he never got there. I like the Bridge, and I certainly appreciate that they've attracted new work from some big-name writers, and that the ticket prices are reasonable (some of the £15 seats are an absolute bargain). This, though, was a huge disappointment, and the worst thing I've seen this year. (To be fair to the Bridge, they also produced the best thing I saw this year - Laura Linney in 'My Name is Lucy Barton'.) |
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| re: “A very very very dark matter” is bafflingly terrible | |
| Posted by: Showtunegal 04:31 pm EST 12/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: “A very very very dark matter” is bafflingly terrible - sf 02:10 pm EST 12/29/18 | |
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| I found myself thinking, "at least it was short!" | |
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