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I saw Women Beware Women at the end of May and with a months distance I'd still like to say that Harry Melling is the best actor of the Harry Potter kids (that I've seen outside the films so far) but then the whole cast was fabulous.
This was one of those plays where before it starts you have to palce bets on who is going to make it out alive at the end of the play (my guess, rocks fall EVERYONE dies, was really very nearly correct :P) I guess that's the thing about morality plays, nobody is ever moral in them *g*
Harriet Walter was fantastic as Livia, manipulating everyone around her in a cruel and cold manner and then very suddenly falling head over heels for Sam Barnett's Leantio. I think she probably caused the most damage of all of them because she had a role in pretty much everyone's downfall from lying to her neice (so that she believed herself not to be related to her uncle and therefore slept with him) to basically pimping out Bianca to the Duke.
Not that any of them come out of it well! Other cast members who stood out (for me) were Harry Melling as "the Ward" who was gleefully obnoxious and rude to his wife-to-be and so utterly dense to the impression he was giving off it was wonderful. Sam Barnett I always like but he wondered around with such a confused look on his face as if he couldn't quite see what had all gone wrong and then his scene with Harriet Walter as she fell for him was cringingly hilarious.
I thought Lauren O’Neil as Bianca did a good job at showing how broken she was after the Duke rapes her but whilst also putting on an incredibly hard shell and managing to turn very much into a lady of the court with her plotting and intrigues even though she was secretly heartbroken underneath,
And then at the end of it all the big final scene with all the deaths was just incredible. It's at a ball so dancing and masked servants and people switching costumes and poison in the wrong cup and fights and stabbings and all the while th music is thudding away and the Olivier stage is revolving and I think you could see the play a dozen times and still get new things from that last scene!
So yes. All in all a very good (if depressing) play
One review down, five to go :P
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I saw Women Beware Women at the end of May and with a months distance I'd still like to say that Harry Melling is the best actor of the Harry Potter kids (that I've seen outside the films so far) but then the whole cast was fabulous.
This was one of those plays where before it starts you have to palce bets on who is going to make it out alive at the end of the play (my guess, rocks fall EVERYONE dies, was really very nearly correct :P) I guess that's the thing about morality plays, nobody is ever moral in them *g*
Harriet Walter was fantastic as Livia, manipulating everyone around her in a cruel and cold manner and then very suddenly falling head over heels for Sam Barnett's Leantio. I think she probably caused the most damage of all of them because she had a role in pretty much everyone's downfall from lying to her neice (so that she believed herself not to be related to her uncle and therefore slept with him) to basically pimping out Bianca to the Duke.
Not that any of them come out of it well! Other cast members who stood out (for me) were Harry Melling as "the Ward" who was gleefully obnoxious and rude to his wife-to-be and so utterly dense to the impression he was giving off it was wonderful. Sam Barnett I always like but he wondered around with such a confused look on his face as if he couldn't quite see what had all gone wrong and then his scene with Harriet Walter as she fell for him was cringingly hilarious.
I thought Lauren O’Neil as Bianca did a good job at showing how broken she was after the Duke rapes her but whilst also putting on an incredibly hard shell and managing to turn very much into a lady of the court with her plotting and intrigues even though she was secretly heartbroken underneath,
And then at the end of it all the big final scene with all the deaths was just incredible. It's at a ball so dancing and masked servants and people switching costumes and poison in the wrong cup and fights and stabbings and all the while th music is thudding away and the Olivier stage is revolving and I think you could see the play a dozen times and still get new things from that last scene!
So yes. All in all a very good (if depressing) play
One review down, five to go :P