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Today I am mostly too cold. Also possibly developing the other sort of cold :-/
Oh well. If I can hold out another 90 minutes + Rainbows then I'm off to see War Horse in a cinema which will probably be warm and I will mostly be needing tissues for the sobbing I suspect.
Which gives me an (accidental) war based (though WW2 not WW1) segue into what I was actually going to post about- my 2nd theatre trip of 2012.
Three Days in May @ Trafalgar Studios
IDK if it was because we went on a Saturday matinee or if it was the subject matter but N and I very nearly halved the average age of the audience when we saw this.
Not that that means anything particular but it was interesting. I think perhaps it's not necessarily a subject people would think to go and see a play about because although it sounds exciting in one way- three days in which Britain nearly sued for peace and when Hitler (perhaps) came closest to winning- but in another way it's really not- three days of politicians discussing foreign policy...
It was definitely clunky in places, there was one speech given to Chamberlain which was basically "how the cabinet works 101" or how the war cabinet worked anyway which was so out of place it nearly made me laugh, and it was very word-y of course but actually it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd feared it might be.
They use Jock Colville (real person) as a narrator because he wrote a diary during the period (as far as I understand and I think I'd quite like to read his diaries) which helped make some of the scene setting work because it WAS just narrated and not stuffed into characters' mouths. And I rather liked the actor playing him.
Otherwise it was Warren Clarke as Churchill who stood out as you'd expect. He was very Churchillian but not a caricature and it was interesting seeing him struggle and debate things and there's a wonderful scene in act 2 with him and Jock.
So a good little play but not spectacular in any way.
Oh well. If I can hold out another 90 minutes + Rainbows then I'm off to see War Horse in a cinema which will probably be warm and I will mostly be needing tissues for the sobbing I suspect.
Which gives me an (accidental) war based (though WW2 not WW1) segue into what I was actually going to post about- my 2nd theatre trip of 2012.
Three Days in May @ Trafalgar Studios
IDK if it was because we went on a Saturday matinee or if it was the subject matter but N and I very nearly halved the average age of the audience when we saw this.
Not that that means anything particular but it was interesting. I think perhaps it's not necessarily a subject people would think to go and see a play about because although it sounds exciting in one way- three days in which Britain nearly sued for peace and when Hitler (perhaps) came closest to winning- but in another way it's really not- three days of politicians discussing foreign policy...
It was definitely clunky in places, there was one speech given to Chamberlain which was basically "how the cabinet works 101" or how the war cabinet worked anyway which was so out of place it nearly made me laugh, and it was very word-y of course but actually it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd feared it might be.
They use Jock Colville (real person) as a narrator because he wrote a diary during the period (as far as I understand and I think I'd quite like to read his diaries) which helped make some of the scene setting work because it WAS just narrated and not stuffed into characters' mouths. And I rather liked the actor playing him.
Otherwise it was Warren Clarke as Churchill who stood out as you'd expect. He was very Churchillian but not a caricature and it was interesting seeing him struggle and debate things and there's a wonderful scene in act 2 with him and Jock.
So a good little play but not spectacular in any way.