This short Norwegian play ticked most if not all of our boxes, in theory.
Adapted by Simon Stephens, whom we very much admire. Two fine actors in Tom Brooke and Jack Laskey. An astonishing, watery set…
…yet somehow the piece failed to move us much. To us, it felt like a slight piece with ideas above its station.
The critics loved it – click here for a search term that provides links to all the right places.
You can see a vid clip if you click through this link from this production at the Festival Avignon.
Paul Taylor in The Independent – click here – claimed not to much like Jon Fosse but found this production one of the best things he’d ever seen.
We didn’t get that “extra something” from the experience, but what do we know?