| Just back from a week of theatre going in London | |
| Posted by: liam44 09:22 pm EST 02/10/20 | |
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| The stand out production for me was Tom Stoppard's new play LEOPOLDSTADT and maybe his last, according to an interview with him which I read in The Guardian. A play about his four Jewish grandparents and much of his family from his parents’ generation who died in Nazi concentration camps. This is his most personal play that I have encountered over his many years as a playwright. I found it highly emotional and I was a complete emotional wreck when it ended. With a cast of 40, it is beautiful staged, acted and designed. Scheduled to run only till June 13, 2020 so if you are in London a must see. I sat in the center stalls row M a great view for only 65 pounds. Will Sonia Friedman bring it to Broadway I hope so maybe in conjunction with LCTC. Needs to be in a Broadway house, would not work the Beaumont. I also very much enjoyed The Wiilkin, by Lucy Kirkwood at the National, a combination of 12 angry men and the Crucible, 3 hours long with 12 very very angry women. At the National I also The Visit, an adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt's1956 tragicomedy by Tony Kushner, with a running time of 4 hours. He has changed the location from a Swiss town called Gullen to one in upstate New York, called Slurry. With Lesley Manville as Claire Zachanassian, who is excellent as is the rest of the cast. The set and costumes are by Vicki Mortimer. The play is interesting and way too long by about an hour. I also saw the Three Sisters at the National where the poet/playwright Inua Ellams describes his new play as "after Chekhov. The location of the play is Nigeria between 1967 and 1970 during Biafra's attempted secession. I left at the first intermission. I think it would have been a more interesting play if he was less faithful to Chekhov. Ends February 19th. Speaking of Chekhov, I also saw Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre in a new adaptation by Conor McPherson, staring Toby Jones as Vanya and Ciaran Hinds as professor Serbryakov,. Worth seeing to see the scenes between Vanya and the professor very exciting to watch two great actors go at each other with such passion. The rest of the play could use more of this passion. At the Almeida, I saw Albion by Mike Bartlett, left at intermission. I was having a lot of trouble with the hearing device and got very frustrated. |
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