Leo Bill type week
Cleansed is a brilliant play with wonderful characters and this production felt really dull and unmotivated. The things that were happening were very disconnected from how people were responding, and not in an intentional stylised way. The design was somewhere between realistic and stylised that landed at a kind of prime time TV crime drama level of representation of sex/violence and I think that plus the one-note emotional register was really limiting in terms of exploring the meanings in those scenes and developing everyone's relationships. The sound design also had a real case of do-anything-itis and we never had a moment's peace to experience an emotion because it was either OONTS OONTS OONTS-ing or playing Perverts by Ethel Cain in one speaker while a bitcrushed version of some britpop bullshit came out in the left. The voiceovers were especially bad but that's a personal pet hate anyway. Robin was the standout best bit.
shh... it's just magic
If I had paid for these tickets or was an autistic child with a special interest in magic I would have been really bummed out by the state of this, but because neither of those things are true it was just funny and stupid. Highlight was I guess the close-up card stuff, and when the magician that looked like Debbie Ryan pretended to skateboard for 5 mins. Lowlight was minions facebook meme 'were you thinking of a grey elephant'
Same as it ever was!
Soooo good
The best Cabaret I've seen! Jamie Moscato surprisingly played a really interesting emcee
Sure, whatever.
He was dressed as the welsh flag.... so cute. the carly rae jepsen of boys
Event of the year for autistic dads and their transgender children
I've been so starved for fun that I had an unexpectedly great time. Some of those jokes won't last (we saw first preview) but the localisation was funny and the cast were great.
"They've decided you're the sufferer"
Let's get you to bed grandpa
My mum loved it
"turn the aircon on Kesh!" actually so cute and emotional
Needed the fake blood back, but Elliot got what he wanted out of it (audience interaction with sexy Patrick)
so glad I didn't pay for these tickets
(dir. Tim Sheader)
"Most of the content warnings are about Anatole to be honest"
With every additional day of hindsight this becomes better and more insane of a thing to have happened.
(dir. Jamie Lloyd)
Oh no, it was so bad. And worst of all - she was bad in it. I felt awful.
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send my regards to Gerge
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Sounds crazy doesn't it
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WHO WAS AT THE ZOO GEORGE??? WHO WAS AT THE ZOO???? THE MONKEYS AND WHO GEORGE?? THE MONKEYS????? AND WHO????!?!?
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We were so close to his feet throughout the whole thing. It was good but I'm biased as a welsh homosexual from a household where Nye Bevan is wistfully remembered every time the GP doesn't pick up, and the NHS nostalgia heroes thing always feels weird when you're trans. I told my mum to watch the touring production and she cried.
"I thought it was a bit strange when the children came out singing Tomorrow Belongs To Me but what can you do?"
in the immortal words of my bf's friend's letterboxd 'it's no postman pat's pet sematary'
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