Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Southwark Fair: a local play for local theatres

What was this play for? We really weren't sure. In fact, by the interval Phil was so unsure that he wanted to leave, butI persuaded him to stay on for the Ayckbournish (Ayckbournesque?) "conceit" which I thought might be interesting enough. Well, yes and no. Not as interesting as the bottle of Lacryma Christi which was the alternative. Lovely to see Margaret Tyzack working (albeit not very much) and Rory Kinnear was astonishingly good. But the play... Who was it for? What was it about? If we're going to sit through both acts of a play we really want to come out stimulated or moved or with our throughts provoked and this play just didn't do it.