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As much as I've tried I really can't find a cute thematic bon mot to apply to the theatrical rundown on this day Before The Lockdown...
Still working out what I really liked about theatre one simple selection method was recognisable names from TV. Office Games at the Pleasance Theatre in London fitted that bill quite nicely With relative stage newcomers Adam Rickitt and Charlie Brooks fresh from Coronation Street and EastEnders respectively and the well established Richard O'Callaghan.
A basic office comedy with all the usual shenanigans that follow a important figure being embarrassed by a mistake that is then blamed on a junior who then seeks some sort of revenge. With being set in the British Foreign Office after the first world war this one had the added comedic value of historical attitudes.
A modestly entertaining evening I recall little of the plot or the characters but what I do remember is that we bumped into Adam Rickitt at the tube station on the way home!
A well received play, based on a lauded novel, it tells the story of some of the forgotten men of war, those sappers and engineers, who worked to ensure the safety of the British trenches in WWI while laying mines to break up any German attack.. Contrasting the arduous nature of their work, the risks, and fatalities they suffered with the idyllic French landscape they worked across and the lives and romances they lived in the years before the conflict it's a big and complex tale to tell.
But, despite a marvellous set and committed performances I just didn't get it. From the safety of my comfortable theatre seat I felt too distant from the action and the switching between the mannered romance of the pre-war story and the confined danger of the trenches didn't work for me.
As it happens I saw an amateur performance a couple of years later and while play's construction of switching between the two stories was still unsatisfactory, physically being in a much smaller and more intimate space with the actors meant the trench bound scenes, though much simpler in design, were actually that much more impactful.
A couple of years earlier I had seen what I think was the first production of Four Play in London and loved it's acerbic comedy of modern relationships. It asks the question of what you would be prepared to do to keep a relationship going when you think you need more 'experience', when 'things' start to get a little stale, or if monogamy is just one option ...
On this day in 2018, it was being presented by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol, as part of their Directors' Cuts showcase season. And, y'know, I think I enjoyed it even more this time. maybe it was the way some of the characters were subtly different or the nuances within the relationships were tweaked slightly. I couldn't put my finger on exactly what it was but either way I laughed at least as much as the first time, and felt the angst just as keenly this second time around.
in 2003
A modestly entertaining evening I recall little of the plot or the characters but what I do remember is that we bumped into Adam Rickitt at the tube station on the way home!
in 2015
There are times when you get out of step with the consensus, I felt this about Birdsong by the Original Theatre Company when it came to the Bristol Old Vic.
But, despite a marvellous set and committed performances I just didn't get it. From the safety of my comfortable theatre seat I felt too distant from the action and the switching between the mannered romance of the pre-war story and the confined danger of the trenches didn't work for me.
As it happens I saw an amateur performance a couple of years later and while play's construction of switching between the two stories was still unsatisfactory, physically being in a much smaller and more intimate space with the actors meant the trench bound scenes, though much simpler in design, were actually that much more impactful.
in 2018
Now this one I did enjoy!A couple of years earlier I had seen what I think was the first production of Four Play in London and loved it's acerbic comedy of modern relationships. It asks the question of what you would be prepared to do to keep a relationship going when you think you need more 'experience', when 'things' start to get a little stale, or if monogamy is just one option ...
On this day in 2018, it was being presented by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol, as part of their Directors' Cuts showcase season. And, y'know, I think I enjoyed it even more this time. maybe it was the way some of the characters were subtly different or the nuances within the relationships were tweaked slightly. I couldn't put my finger on exactly what it was but either way I laughed at least as much as the first time, and felt the angst just as keenly this second time around.
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