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.
- Michael Billington in The Guardian felt we were too far into the action before we got the point;
- Charles Spencer in the Telegraph felt it more like a cryptic crossword than a play;
- Michael Coveney in The Independent went further – “elliptical in the wrong sort of way, piling puzzle on confusion”…
…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.