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Oh I love him so very much it's a bit embaressing and I hate you all for not coming with me so I could drag you to the stage door ALL OF YOU because my wonderful rl friends and mother didn't even seem to think about going and I couldn't go on my own not for Mark Rylance because OH GOD I love him like a properly crazt person and I ask you to remember the fool I am quite capable of making myself with actors I am able to talk to and just think what I'd be like with Mark.
But oh he was wonderful. They all were.
So first off. It was great and hysterical and just a crazy, fun way to spend an evening. I saw all these reviews that asked why it was put on at all and said it was misogynistic and I suppose I can sort of see where they got that from but it's a farce and it's stupid and the women characters may all be a wee bit crazy and stereotyped but so are the men because it's a bloody farc and a great one at that and the cast, oh the cast.
Mark Rylance, Roger Allam, Frances de la Tour (and I'm already ready to die of squee) Tamzin Outhwaite, Michelle Gomez (oh the love <3) and Daisy Beaumont (who was the only name I didn't know but was very good)
And you knew I'd be in love with Mark if you've beena round here a while but everyone agreed he was the best because he just smiles sideways and he pauses in the middle of lines and is never afraid and always gts the timing just right and you wonder if he's lost it and is going to laugh but he's totally in control and just so very beautiful (yes, alright, that's my delusion and I like it so go away) and some reviewer said his character was innocent and that wasn't it at all. He got kissed by just about everyone and was obviously loving it and oh it was Mark Rylance on stage and it's been FOREVER since that happened. Well 18 months but that's like forever.
The three hostesses were all great in their own ways. It's nice to know that Tamzin really is better than Eastenders might have suggested and she was american and bossy and wonderful and Daisy was Italian and adorable and Michelle Gomez was... well she was German and she was crazy and quite a lot like the German one from Austin Powers only much sexier and more beautiful and a little like Sue White in Green Wing but she's so unafraid of the physical comedy stuff and she has scary staring eyes and such a wonderful voice and her and Mark on stage together was just about as perfect a comic duo as you can get. They both have the confidence to just pause and look while the audience gradually collapses into hysterics because that one look conveys so much.
Roger Allam was very good at hysterics and at being a smug prat and was quite clearly enjoying himself lots (and had a pillow fight with Mark at the end <3) and France de la Tour was... well that woman's fantastic and she's so recognsible and tall and stately and she was a maid and just grumbled all the time and was wonderful and got the giggles at the wrong moment and had to manage to control herself and got kissed by Michelle Gomez and danced for us at the end and she's Frances de la Your for heavens sakes!
I probably should have explained the plot but it's a farce. There's a man and his three fiancees who are air hostesses and his friend and his maid and it's all chaotic and nerve wracking and hysterical and I want to go again but really you all guessed that already no? And I have othing booked... but actually there are at least two NT things I need to book and the Globe season coming up plus Taming of the Shrew with shiny people and various non-theatre bits and pieces but I'm having to forcibly restrain myself from looking for cheap lastmintue tickets because it was such a laugh and if I went back maybe I'd be able to go and talk to Mark Rylane.
Well.
Obviously not because I am a fool and whatever my other loves Mark STEALS THEM ALL like the theif he told us he was the first time I saw him ♥
I should so have gone to be forever ago.
But oh he was wonderful. They all were.
So first off. It was great and hysterical and just a crazy, fun way to spend an evening. I saw all these reviews that asked why it was put on at all and said it was misogynistic and I suppose I can sort of see where they got that from but it's a farce and it's stupid and the women characters may all be a wee bit crazy and stereotyped but so are the men because it's a bloody farc and a great one at that and the cast, oh the cast.
Mark Rylance, Roger Allam, Frances de la Tour (and I'm already ready to die of squee) Tamzin Outhwaite, Michelle Gomez (oh the love <3) and Daisy Beaumont (who was the only name I didn't know but was very good)
And you knew I'd be in love with Mark if you've beena round here a while but everyone agreed he was the best because he just smiles sideways and he pauses in the middle of lines and is never afraid and always gts the timing just right and you wonder if he's lost it and is going to laugh but he's totally in control and just so very beautiful (yes, alright, that's my delusion and I like it so go away) and some reviewer said his character was innocent and that wasn't it at all. He got kissed by just about everyone and was obviously loving it and oh it was Mark Rylance on stage and it's been FOREVER since that happened. Well 18 months but that's like forever.
The three hostesses were all great in their own ways. It's nice to know that Tamzin really is better than Eastenders might have suggested and she was american and bossy and wonderful and Daisy was Italian and adorable and Michelle Gomez was... well she was German and she was crazy and quite a lot like the German one from Austin Powers only much sexier and more beautiful and a little like Sue White in Green Wing but she's so unafraid of the physical comedy stuff and she has scary staring eyes and such a wonderful voice and her and Mark on stage together was just about as perfect a comic duo as you can get. They both have the confidence to just pause and look while the audience gradually collapses into hysterics because that one look conveys so much.
Roger Allam was very good at hysterics and at being a smug prat and was quite clearly enjoying himself lots (and had a pillow fight with Mark at the end <3) and France de la Tour was... well that woman's fantastic and she's so recognsible and tall and stately and she was a maid and just grumbled all the time and was wonderful and got the giggles at the wrong moment and had to manage to control herself and got kissed by Michelle Gomez and danced for us at the end and she's Frances de la Your for heavens sakes!
I probably should have explained the plot but it's a farce. There's a man and his three fiancees who are air hostesses and his friend and his maid and it's all chaotic and nerve wracking and hysterical and I want to go again but really you all guessed that already no? And I have othing booked... but actually there are at least two NT things I need to book and the Globe season coming up plus Taming of the Shrew with shiny people and various non-theatre bits and pieces but I'm having to forcibly restrain myself from looking for cheap lastmintue tickets because it was such a laugh and if I went back maybe I'd be able to go and talk to Mark Rylane.
Well.
Obviously not because I am a fool and whatever my other loves Mark STEALS THEM ALL like the theif he told us he was the first time I saw him ♥
I should so have gone to be forever ago.