REVIEW: Sunny Afternoon, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭✭
There is a lot to like in Sunny Afternoon and overall the experience is more than satisfactory. It is great fun. Well worth seeing and hard not to enjoy.
There is a lot to like in Sunny Afternoon and overall the experience is more than satisfactory. It is great fun. Well worth seeing and hard not to enjoy.
There is a simply amazing moment when the set literally starts to crack up or, depending on how you look at it, begins to drown – just as the central character, Andrew Scott’s troubled rock supremo, Paul, finds his personal world crumbling around him, finds himself drowning in a sea of excess, selfishness and solitude.
Handbagged promises much and delivers very little. It’s vaguely interesting and occasionally genuinely involving
Perhaps it was just that Richard II promised so much, but this Henry IV Part One did not make one long for Part Two.
It really is shatteringly good in every way. And the final blood-soaked vignette is both poetic and horrific
It’s a joy to see and hear creative Australian voices, onstage and off, in London. This show is worth a full scale production, properly funded and promoted. It’s a true pity its short season has now concluded.
This is a musical farce. No question. And a very funny one. But it has a conceptual twist: the fourth wall is broken allowing asides to or with the audience or conductor, or wry, deftly done onstage business.
It is difficult to see how this production could be better. Scary, imaginative and practically perfect in every way. A modern fable not to be missed.
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