I remember we were really looking forward to this play/production.
Transfers from the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in the US are usually top notch, as are Cottesloe productions.
In many ways this was top notch; a well written, well-acted, well-directed piece about suburban America. It just didn’t really light up.
Perhaps we had been spoilt too recently by Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park – another mid-west suburban play…
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, Royal Court Theatre, 4 September 2010
…or the harder-hitting Neil LaBute’s we’d been enjoying the last few years.
We enjoyed our evening but had been (perhaps unfairly) half-expecting to be wowed, which we were not.
Mixed reviews from the critics – click here for a link.
Below is the RNT trailer – not very revealing…
…this Steppenwolf vid explains more:
