“What was that about” said Janie after the show; proof positive that her review would not be 100% positive. “I liked bits of it but it seemed all over the place at times and I’m not really sure what it was trying to say.”
Janie has a point.
Yet it was a very entertaining play/show in many ways.
Centre stage as we walked in was a dying bull, or rather a moving facsimile of same. It remained pretty much centre stage throughout.
Men were dressed a women, women were dressed as men, it was sort of about an opera singer, sort of about a toy boy…
…read the reviews and figure it out for yourself if you wish.
Excellent Almeida resource including links to several full reviews – click here.
The reviews were more or less universally excellent. It certainly deserved the high praise for an extraordinary production.
We are big fans of Simon Stephens writing, so we delight in this play’s success, but I think we prefer it when his writing is a little more direct.
Still, we enjoyed our evening and had bragging rights for having seen this production early on.