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Subject: Re: Read 'em before they're gone!

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sue

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Date Posted: 17:03:23 03/23/02 Sat
In reply to: Jen 's message, "Read 'em before they're gone!" on 13:45:56 03/23/02 Sat

>Feast actually closed on the 16th; some reviews were
>even worse than the ones I had read. Here are some
>highlights of what's still cached:
>Jonathan Myerson's review at
>http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=134504
>"And what a waste of talent! When I was studying
>Hamlet for A-level, a Yorick-gripping David Warner
>adorned the cover of my paperback. All my teachers
>told me he had laid down the definitive Prince of
>Denmark. Yet by then, stage fright had removed him
>from the stage, and I was forced to imagine his Hamlet
>based on his performances in Hollywood dross.....
>Well, I don't think I've seen an Icelandic play
>before, and now I know whether I want to see another.
>I've seen David Warner on stage. And yes, I still have
>that A-level Hamlet text, and I reckon he's going to
>have plenty of time for signing autographs."
>Louise Jury's closing notice at
>http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=139951
>"Warner said he had chosen Olafsson's play because his
>character, a millionaire industrialist eating a
>gourmet dinner alone in his mansion, was the kind of
>role he had been longing for 'eccentric, outgoing,
>outspoken and a bit humorous'. Sadly, his critics had
>rather different adjectives in mind for it."
It's as though all the critics decide beforehand what to say about a particular play. They all raved about Life After George, another new play which closed early and which I saw in preview - it was awful - so pretentious, and underrehearsed it seemed to me. It was far worse than FOS. Let's hope the experience doesn't put DW off another go on stage in UK.

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