Tag: Philip McGinley

Straight by DC Moore, Bush Theatre, 8 December 2012

This was our first visit to the new Bush (i.e. the old library site rather than above the pub)…

…we were so excited…

…until we watched the first half of the play, which we both thought was infantile tripe.

We didn’t stick around for the second half.

Here is a link to the Bush resource for this play/production.

It got reasonably good reviews, so perhaps Janie and i just weren’t in the mood for “razor sharp” infantile tripe that night.

Here is a link to a search term that finds the reviews.

We persevered with the new Bush, thank goodness – we are huge fans of the Bush…but (just in case you weren’t sure) we were not fans of this show.

Canary by Jonathan Harvey, Hampstead Theatre, 21 May 2010

Well, by this time the Ed Hall era had started at Hampstead Theatre, but this one didn’t really work for us.

It felt to us like an “everything including the kitchen sink” gay saga. Angels in America without the sparkling wit, The Normal Heart without the heart-wrenching pathos. It spanned the decades from 1962 (a fine year IMHO) to the present day.

We really wanted to like it. We didn’t really dislike it. It just didn’t grip and/or move us.

Good troupe from the Liverpool Everyman – it was a shame really.

Here is a search term – click here – that finds you all the reviews and resources available back then.

There’s a YouTube trailer/interview with the playwright for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civMWwV1kRY

We no doubt went to Harry Morgans for some comfort food before the show.