Tag: Johannes Schütz

Big And Small (Gross Und Klein) by Botho Strauss, Barbican Theatre, 28 April 2012

We were really looking forward to this piece but found it disappointing.

It felt to us like a rather inconsequential, silly piece trying to be profound.

Cate Blanchett has never really done the business for me on stage. Strangely, with this piece, my feelings about her undoubted abilities as an actress were enhanced but it would have been a struggle for anyone to wring much out of this play.

Here is a link to a trailer vid from the Sydney Theatre production (presumably filmed before it came to the Barbican).

Here is an interview with Cate Blanchett from this tour:

Cate Blanchett and Benedict Andrews talk a good game.

Mixed reviews – for a link to a search term, click here.

The Stone by Marius von Mayenburg, Royal Court Theatre, 14 February 2009

This was a short play with a good cast and minimal set. We wanted to like it more than we did like it.

Set in Dresden, it is about a house that changed hands while retaining secrets across 60 years of political strife.

Janie usually hates plays that jump backwards and forwards in time, as this one did.

The play and production is well described in The Stage – here.

…you get the point.

Not sure what we ate afterwards – in all the temporal confusion it’s a miracle that we succeeded in getting food and getting home in that order.