Post by marion on May 2, 2024 19:50:28 GMT
This had fantastic reviews, all four or five stars that I saw. God knows why!!!! 😂😂
The star here is Geraldine Somerville as the mother and to me she was inaudible about half the time. No excuse for that. When she did project emotion and got louder she was good. Her warehouse-worker son Tom was played by Kasper Hilton-Hille whom I saw in his debut at the Orange Tree last year in the (rather risqué) That Face. He was excellent then and he was excellent here. I thought he carried the whole thing. You heard his every word and his acting was fine. Laura the daughter was played by Natalie Kimmerling who was pretty good and generally audible. She is an actress with only one fully-developed hand, and I have noticed that on TV a lot lately as well, especially among women. The Gentleman Caller was played by Zacchaeus Kayode and he could have been clearer and a bit more energetic!
This was a very sparse design, very few props and the glass animals edging the stage. The overall effect is grey with a grey disc as the floor and an open background to the bricks of the theatre. It was described as unusual and that was pretty clear when we had Laura’s hopes for romance expressed through some interpretive dance with the GC to a Whitney Houston power ballad. I quite liked that though because it livened it up! 😂
There were quite a few students there and I sat next to some in the interval. They were discussing something arising from the show, namely “So what’s a warehouse?”. You couldn’t make it up.
It didn’t get a rapturous reception from the audience but the applause was reasonably warm. The two ladies I sat next to agreed with me so I wasn’t alone in my views. It transfers to the theatre at Alexandra Palace in a few weeks and a friend from North London asked me to let her know if they should go. I said her husband would be climbing the walls by the end!😂
The star here is Geraldine Somerville as the mother and to me she was inaudible about half the time. No excuse for that. When she did project emotion and got louder she was good. Her warehouse-worker son Tom was played by Kasper Hilton-Hille whom I saw in his debut at the Orange Tree last year in the (rather risqué) That Face. He was excellent then and he was excellent here. I thought he carried the whole thing. You heard his every word and his acting was fine. Laura the daughter was played by Natalie Kimmerling who was pretty good and generally audible. She is an actress with only one fully-developed hand, and I have noticed that on TV a lot lately as well, especially among women. The Gentleman Caller was played by Zacchaeus Kayode and he could have been clearer and a bit more energetic!
This was a very sparse design, very few props and the glass animals edging the stage. The overall effect is grey with a grey disc as the floor and an open background to the bricks of the theatre. It was described as unusual and that was pretty clear when we had Laura’s hopes for romance expressed through some interpretive dance with the GC to a Whitney Houston power ballad. I quite liked that though because it livened it up! 😂
There were quite a few students there and I sat next to some in the interval. They were discussing something arising from the show, namely “So what’s a warehouse?”. You couldn’t make it up.
It didn’t get a rapturous reception from the audience but the applause was reasonably warm. The two ladies I sat next to agreed with me so I wasn’t alone in my views. It transfers to the theatre at Alexandra Palace in a few weeks and a friend from North London asked me to let her know if they should go. I said her husband would be climbing the walls by the end!😂