Damiensta said: "Saw this tonite. Count me in the love love column. I was afraid before hand Bc previous experience with Pinther was that dreadful “Old Times” from Roundabout.
the empty set, the acting , direction were exceptional. The 90 min flew by.
The orchestra was full tonite. Wouldn’t be surprised that once reviews come in that it will be hard tix to get.
Also all three actors were equal footing. No one was better than the other.i even enjoyed the small part of waiter.
I know there is separate seating thread , but I will like to point out that even though I was in center orchestra. The action takes center stage. In first act the right side might miss actor standing in the back. But besides that I don’t think even with partial view you miss much. I’m wondering if the reblock after first preview ."
Saw this the other night and have to agree. I thought the show was fabulous! Got my tickets through TDF, mezzanine row D. Great view. Didn’t go to stage door.
Saw last night's performance. I had read this play, although I was very familiar with the concept and characters, but it was really clever and poignant and witty. All four actors were exceptional, even the waiter got some great moments out of only a few minutes onstage.
I saw the first performance last Wednesday. I saw the Daniel Craig version a few years ago, and was incredibly bored but this production drew me in right away. Perhaps because I appreciate Pinter's economy with words, the spare dialogue appeals to me. I thought the entire cast was, perhaps, a little too youthful for what is a middle age regrets/remembrances story. I see this as a retrospective from the end looking back: the older characters remembering what happened to them but unable to become those younger selves.
I thought Ashton was the weakest, lacking the self-protective guile and flashes of anger. I thought Cox was brilliant: Jerry is central to most of the scenes, and is the one most manipulated by the tensions in the marriage between Emma and Robert. But I found Hiddleston heartbreaking. Craig played Robert very cold, manipulative, edgy. Hiddleston showed you how much of his toughness was an act, and there is one moment in the entire play that I will never forget. No spoilers but it said more about Robert in one wordless image than I ever could have imagined. Robert is, after all, the victim who plays along, trying not to lose the two people he loves just because they love each other more.
Saw this last night and I have mixed feelings about it. The acting is phenomenal all around, and despite a few moments of brilliance, the material and the set left me cold. I honestly think this belongs off-broadway, because it would benefit from being in a smaller, more intimate space to fully take in all of the performances.
I think the whole evening was very subtle, maybe a little too subtle. For a play about betrayal, I feel that it was lacking passion and anger. I kept waiting for a big climax moment that never happened. The tension doesn’t even escalate as it goes along. It felt excruciatingly long at times.
On a side note, this was my second time seeing Charlie Cox on stage and I thought it was funny that the set and movement were very similar to “Incognito”. Bare stage, a couple of chairs and actors going around in circles.
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Posted: 8/22/19 at 8:14am