After all the excitement of the previous evening at the Orange Tree in Richmond:
Mottled Lines by Archie W Maddocks, Orange Tree Theatre, 13 July 2012
…this evening at the theatre seemed remarkably sedate and incident free.
We are fans of Joe Penhall’s writing – in particular we thought Blue/Orange was a cracking good play. This one, with a stellar cast at the Royal Court, sounded intriguing.
Here is a link to the Royal Court resource on this play/production.
The conceit of the play is the idea that there is a new procedure that enables the man, rather than the woman, to carry a baby through pregnancy and birth.
Below you can see the trailer:
The idea does have lots of room for comedy, but in truth we found it rather obvious comedy and thought the piece was a little underwhelming.
It was well received by the audience our night, not least my friend John from the gym who was sitting near us.
It got reasonable/mixed reviews – click here for a link that finds them.