REVIEW: Visitors, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This is an extraordinary play performed and directed with consummate skill and incredible insight. It should transfer to the West End and be seen by anyone who has a family.
This is an extraordinary play performed and directed with consummate skill and incredible insight. It should transfer to the West End and be seen by anyone who has a family.
This really is first-rate modern theatre: challenging, entertaining and questioning. Rupert Goold’s vision for the Almeida is electrifying.
Herrin completely understands that and his production is in terrific synchronicity with Mitchell’s vision. A glorious revival of an under-rated masterpiece.
This is funnier than anything that has played in the West End since One Man Two Guvnors first transferred. Old fashioned English farce done with style and charm and great skill, full of laughs and unexpected delight.
As you enter the auditorium through the rehearsal room, you can almost smell the unwashed theatre students who have earnestly, yet slightly rabidly, put together this piece of protest performance art.
This revival is notable for one thing: it does raise, but not answer, this question – is Do I Hear A Waltz? capable of successful revival?
The Old Vic is back in In-The-Round mode and so there is a greater intimacy with the playing. This proves fatal with this cast; the distance of a proscenium might have assisted Cusack and Egan, but as it is, their every move is closely exposed.
A great play, well directed and perfectly played. Unmissable.