Bloomin’ ‘eck this was good.
Janie and I both really love Tennessee Williams but neither of us are very keen to see revivals of plays if we have seen a decent production before.
So this production of Summer And Smoke, a play that neither of us had seen before, at one of our favourite places, The Almeida, sounded like the hottest of hot tickets to our taste.
So much so, it would have been understandable had our massively high expectations not been met…but we needn’t have worried – this production most certainly did the business for us.
Here is a link to the Almeida’s resource on this one.
Below is the trailer:
I’m not too sure why this play is so rarely performed, other than the fact that I think it does need some sort of imaginative staging to come alive – achieved wonderfully by Rebecca Frecknall and her team in Rebecca’s first major gig as a Director.
Frecknall is a star director in the making and Patsy Ferran is similarly a star performer breaking through just now.
We saw Patsy Ferran only a few week’s ago and were hugely impressed with her at the Royal Court in My Mum’s A Twat – click here or below:
My Mum’s A Twat by Anoushka Warden, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 13 January 2018
Below is a slightly longer vid with opening night reflections from the cast and crew:
Doubtless we’ll remember this as one of the highlights of our theatre-going year.