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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
My husband and I really enjoyed this production. The actors were superb and costumes sublime. We loved the way dance was incorporated into the story. Lesley Manville looked in credible and Aiden Turner a very suitable philanderer.
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Les Liasons Dangereuses
Unfortunately I wasn’t enthralled by this production although I thought the second half was better.
I’d forgotten how big the stage is so was a bit overwhelmed by so many performers and perhaps I just wasn’t in ‘the right mood’.
A shame as the acting and dancing were excellent but couldn’t always make out the words.
The experience was worth it though, thank you.
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Les Liasons Dangereuse
A very lively play, well acted with wonderful choreography and beautiful costumes. Sadly the morals of yesteryear have not changed!!
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Mass. A moving production and sadly topical subject, superb acting by the cast in what must have been an emotional subject to portray. Thoroughly enjoyed another Donmar experience.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
I saw this production recently at the RST in Stratford upon Avon. The play was excellent and special mention for Adrian Lester as Cyrano and Susannah Fielding as Roxane. Tissues may be needed for the final scenes. Highly recommended.
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Mass
Yet another superb play at the Donmar with the exciting opportunity to talk with the writer Fran Kranz who said he was inspired to write the play when his daughter was four years old at the time of a school mass shooting. I hoped for the achieved ending but the labyrinthine route navigated by the deeply wounded parents was distressing and harrowing and achieved through exceptional acting. Thank you Fredo for the opportunity to see it.
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Mass
Another outstanding play which was a master class in acting.
Both wives grieved but one had a guilty conscious, with her husband having an element of self denial while the other husband was filled with rage and gave a superb performance finally accepting reconciliation.
Was fascinated how the table rotated which was well staged, different again.
As Wendy said, so lucky meeting some of the actors and especially the writer.
Calm ending with delightful soothing music.
Thank you Fredo and Mike for an enthralling evening.
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Mass
Once again The Donmar achieved a theatrical production that would be hard to imagine happening as successfully elsewhere. The script, the staging and the acting were exceptional. All drama relies on the words and message of the author and Fran Kranz gave the actors some amazing material to work with. And they did so wonderfully well. How did the heart wrenching conversation between the four parents work so smoothly that it seemed like magic that they appeared at different angles. From mundane organising of the room plus vacuum cleaner to the harrowing image of the two bereaved mothers embracing and weeping together we the audience followed their journey. The title Mass includes the awful horror of mass shooting and also seems to imply a spiritual ritual like a Catholic mass. Thank you again Fredo and Mike for choosing this breathtaking play for us.
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Mass
Such a ‘raw’ performance which resonates with so many incidents in the world today, plus, I was reminded of Punch, the play we saw some months ago, which was a true story of restorative justice.
The actors were well cast, very believable and it was good to be able to congratulate them as they left the theatre.
The icing on the cake though was having a conversation with the writer, Fran Kranz, as we left.
The Donmar is always so ‘close up and personal’. A privilege to there, thank you.
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Mass
It is a long time since I have experienced such intense silence as I “heard” at the Donmar last night. Four people trying to make sense of the dreadful tragedy they all shared. The setting seems to be the meetings room of a non-denominational church, where a meeting has been carefully set up by a social worker or therapist (?) to try for reparation between the parents of a murdered boy and the parents of the perpetrator. What causes such acts, can anything have been done to prevent it, what signs were missed, what were the seeds of discontent in the mind of the killer? Was a constant devotion to the computer screen, at the expense of human relationships, the starting point? (a very topical subject right now). The subtle facial and body language of the characters as they carefully sifted the thoughts of the other characters, allowing lengthy passages of silence, was beautifully conveyed. There are no real answers to these unfathomable occurrences, yet the mutual determination of both sets of parents not to upset the other, or to put blame on anyone, (while most of them blamed themselves in various ways) was moving , and indeed at the end, some sort of calm had been achieved. It was a Mass indeed, for the families of the bereaved. Flawless acting from the four principals, and perhaps unfair on the others to pick out Monica Dolan, who has always been a favourite. Despite very different circumstances, this play reminded me of Punch, which we saw a few months ago.
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Mass at the Donmar Warehouse
What an extraordinary evening at the Donmar (which might be one of the few theatres in London that would have staged this play). Four actors, at the top of their game, sitting at a table and barely moving, holding us rapt as their characters, the parents of two boys – one of whom killed the other during a school shooting and then killed himself – try to find a way to achieve acceptance and forgiveness through a process of restorative justice.
The play was an uncompromising and uncomfortable watch and not just because of the Donmar’s notoriously hard bench seats. The focus was on the parents’ grief and misery and the wider political and social context was mainly avoided. However, I was particularly struck when the mother of the murdered boy asked why nothing had changed since the shooting seven years previously. On the way home, I realised that was why I was so emotionally drained at the end despite the glimmer of hope offered by the story’s conclusion.
In the US, school shootings seem somehow to have become almost routine and no longer lead the news bulletins in the UK. The Donmar audience comes to see this play and applauds the attempt to show the misery caused by such shootings. But aren’t we in our own liberal echo chamber? The playwright wrote an article about the play in the Guardian (the same echo chamber….) in which he referred to changes in UK gun laws after the Dunblane shootings and noted nothing similar had happened in the US. I applaud his efforts, and those of the Donmar, to highlight the impact of these dreadful events but feel very sad that any meaningful change is so unlikely.
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Mass
Another superb production from The Donmar . A very powerful and harrowing play which unfortunately the subject is still a common occurrence in parts of the world today .I shan’t add a spoiler but it really hit a nerve by the incident a few years ago in Southport.I understand that the writer’s family have experience of shooting in a school.Very clever staging on the main focus of the parents round the table as it revolved indiscernibly.Each were shown at a different angle throughout the performance .
Thank you Fredo and Mike also looking forward to The Guilty in June
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Mass
This was an excellent performance. The subject, two sets of parents meeting the murder of the son of one set of parents by the son of the other, sounds harrowing and difficult to watch. However it was brilliantly acted by all four lead actors. The story of what happened came out slowly over the length of the play.
Thank you Fredo for arranging us to see yet another great play.
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Mass
We were very fortunate to make the performance of Mass last night since the Elizabeth line let us down. We managed to get to the Donmar with two mins to spare. I am very glad we did as it was a powerful performance, thought provoking and heart rending. Thank you.
Catherine
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MASS
Thank you for my tickets for tonight’s performance. It was my first visit to the Donmar . I certainly hope I will go again. From the theatre staff to the actors fine delivery ,this experience will be staying with me ,whilst I digest the theme of forgiveness so eloquently portrayed in a highly charged exchange .
Wendy C
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MASSThank you for organising this wonderful visit. It would never have been a play I would have chosen to see without your knowledge but I’m so glad we didn’t miss it. So powerful! Victoria
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The Price
I approached the Price with some trepidation: I have a vivid memory of spending a hot Summer a few years ago with my sisters clearing the home of our elderly, frail parents of around 50 years’ worth of “stuff”. The evocative set for The Price appeared, at first glance, to be a mixture of my parents’ garage and their living room full of expensive brown furniture that even the local charity didn’t want…
Of course, while Arthur Miller is interested in his characters’ quotidian routine, he also explores wider themes with great acuity: the failure of the American dream; how a man (and it is usually a man) holds on to his integrity in the face of adversity; and interestingly, in The Price, the nature of memory and how we see ourselves and the impact of the decisions we have taken as time passes.
Miller’s work attracts the best actors and one could almost smell Henry Goodman’s delight in the role of Gregory Solomon; the appraiser/huckster/con man/wise old sage all in one package. I didn’t believe for a moment that he was 89 (Goodman is 75) but what a performance! Elliot Cowan as Victor, the honest cop, also gave a tour de force performance as the play’s moral centre. John Hopkins as Victor’s brother and Faye Castelow as his wife provide hard working and solid support in roles that felt, at times, like plot devices.
And there is a lot of plot in this play, perhaps too much as more and more revelations from the family’s complex history come out after the interval. At times, it feels like it’s Miller, rather than the characters, telling us about the sorry state of the world rather than allowing the story to move forward. That said, the play ends on a satisfying, if downbeat, note and the cast received a deserved ovation, An interesting collectible production at an interesting new theatre.
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The Price.
What a stunning play with outstanding actors. So emotional and driven, all of them. The theme Miller explains is sadly very applicable to our world today.
Lovely new theatre. Many thanks for booking it for us.
Wendy Norris.
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The Price
I thoroughly enjoyed this Arthur Miller play at the Marylebone Theatre, I hadn’t been to this theatre before and, because of the heavy traffic around Trafalgar Square, there was a concern that we might arrive late. However, we made it with over 30 minutes to spare, and what a wonderful play it was.
Henry Goodman was absolutely brilliant as the antique dealer and Elliot Cowan was really convincing as the New York cop. The rest of the cast were excellent and the room stuffed full of old furniture really set the scene.
Thank you Fredo for arranging this trip.
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The Price
Yet another fantastic performance. The actors were brilliant and plausible in their rolls.
I’ve really enjoyed all the plays I’ve seen by Arthur Miller.
Thank you to taking us to yet another one in a theatre I’ve not been to before.
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