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Wow ... I wish I could see it! 🫠🥲

I really enjoyed it! I hated the one at the Barbican years ago, stayed away from it, but was glad i gave this one a shot. The sets and staging was amazing.

I thought it was pretty dreadful. I had no idea what was going on. I can't believe they are showing it in this edit. Needs a complete overhaul to make it easier to understand. Othello was amazing, this is a mess! It is visually stunning in certain scenes, but I think that's where all the money went, on the set!

I disagree. I thought the female parts were done very well, I thought it had a strong cast.

Please comment on David Oyeloho's glistening washboard abs that star in the promotional material for this show

No comments? Aww. Well, here's one...have a great weekend!

I saw it on Saturday 4th time I’ve the play and in all honesty I was disappointed. Cannot agree that there was great rapport. You have to believe that these characters have been intertwined for years. 50 years as one of them says. I didn’t feel that at all. The physical comedy elements were poorly delivered and clunky. The sequence with the hat was poor I thought. A great play indeed, but not a great production by a long shot

Hope you are well. I do enjoy your reviews

I laughed and cried all the way during the play... I would have missed something if I hadn't gone to see it

form how you started i thought this would be a negative review. thanks for this as i'd not heard of it.

Thank you for the review. Is it family friendly?

Such a brilliant show and all the performances are superb.

I need to see it.

I’m sorry you were disappointed in this play. There were problems with it. I thought It was underwritten and a little episodic, Monica too perfect, the policeman too facetious. However I found nuggets of truth which struck a chord with me. Perhaps because I’m working class myself, I could relate very much to James Corden’s character and his disintegration brought tears to my eyes. I was left with the thought that we live in this strange system which creates more and more broken people - and MPs throwing breadcrumbs at them is just not working anymore.

I've seen it yesterday and went like most people cause of Tom Holland and I went in fully expecting that it would end up something I'd say about "oh well I've seen it now but wasn't as great" but I was so wrong! I absolutely loved it and I usually can't stand romeo and juliet, it's by far my least favourite Shakespeare, i think that was the first production of romeo and juliet that really spoke to me

i wanted to see this!! Strange sounds good. I don't think a play should feel instantly knowable or understandable. It should be a strange land that you mull over for a while.

Being slightly strange myself, I'd see that - sounds rather odd and pointless - just like me.. BTW I'm impressed how you can make a review without walking into something. Certainly a skill!

4 hours at 85. The end was inevitable. Hope he recovers 🙏

The sisters reunion has been done millions of time before Long a bit irritating cuz full of cliches

I would love to see this production as my son really enjoyed R&J in his GCSE English Lit but West End tickets are so expensive now

This sounds like going to the dentist!

Hi. I enjoy your musings - leaving you a little comment to cheer you up! Hope you're having a good weekend. Kindest regards.

Completely agree. I thought that the actors did the best they could with what they were given - the directional style was very strict & left them with little freedom. I found the story very bland; as you said, the fact that they were all the same character & therefore had no interaction very disappointing; and I found it very distracting that they had to keep checking their scripts to check what they were to do next. Not for me either!

I have no idea how this was recommended in my feed, however, I must declare, what a wonderful and refreshing surprise. Looking forward to more content! (I should say I did see Eddie Izzard on stage perhaps 20 years ago, and then, saw him do the translation of his show in French, right after. Quite impressive.) Bonjour du Québec.

just a wonderful down-to-earth review. Well done.

A fine comedian but an average actor , people like him so it's hard to admit it .

He ends words with "zzzz" a lot. It's like his comedy schtick but even less funny. He's hardly Larry.

Où est le singe? That is the question.

A really sensitive and considered review. Thank you. It’s more than he’s getting in the press so I’m very glad someone has provided some impartiality.

“Emperor’s suit of clothes”.

would like to see this. thanks.

Damming with faint praise. "I think that I liked it" Like a teacher trying to be positive at Parents' Evening. 😂

Finally a post from someone who actually watched the play and who can comment on more than the aesthetics of the leads👍

I’ve got box tickets to see this in June. I don’t like Romeo & Juliet either, I hated the play when I studied it at English GCSE. However, there’s something about the creative genius of Jamie Lloyd and William Shakespeare combined that intrigues me about this. I think a modern feel might actually be a good move and be well suited for this play. Plus, I’m excited to see Francesca Amewudah-Rivers play Juliet.

I love the modern take Jamie did and having Tom as Romeo is perfect

Your lesbian face told me your opinion about that horror show before you opened your mouth.

Huh... Always thought everybody just bought the tickets for tom Holland that's why it broke a world record and sold out in 2 Hours

For me the classic 90's still the best.

Was the audience problematic, did they go crazy when Tom was on stage, as I'm dreading being taken out of the moment each time he is?

We saw this play too and my husband and I felt totally differently about it. My husband really enjoyed it but I just couldn't get into it at all and ended up nodding off a few times, with hubby having to keep nudging me awake. Some of the audience laughed out loud at the supposedly funny quips but a lot more of us certainly didn't. I just think it's one of those Marmite plays that will have rather mixed opinions. Your score sounded fair as hubby would give it a 4 and I would give it 2.

I saw this at Wimbledon and the sound of people leaving was almost deafening at times. I thought it was awful. The staging had zero thought about it (the blast of rave music was particularly idiotic) and I got the impression that they felt they didn't need to bother much because people are only going to see McKellen in what will surely be one of, if not his last, roles. The whole thing felt very generic. Even the poster seemed lazy. Hal didn't have any Idea how to speak his lines, Henry sounded like he was on tranquillisers, and I'm not sure what role McKellen thought he was playing but it didn't feel like Falstaff. If he really wanted to play him he would have done so before now anyway. Robert Icke is doing Oedipus Rex soon. If he's going to butcher it like he did this then include me out.

Tamara Lawrance is one of my favourite actors. She’s so good in this play! Such a skilled actor and a joy to watch. I saw the play tonight and can’t think of a bad thing to say about it.

I saw this yesterday and I quite agree with you. McKellen wasn’t the best Falstaff and he is a freeloader. I also had an issue with how long it was. Things did drag on unnecessarily. But all in all it’s still great to go to the theatre.

It was fantastic

I watched the performance last night and found it to be unnecessarily lengthy. While the performances were polished and the production was impressive, the emotional depth between Hal and John Falstaff seemed to be missing. Additionally, Hal's delivery lacked the emotional nuance that the role deserved. While I'm not a theatre aficionado, I rely on feedback to understand others' perspectives on the play. Ian McKellen is undeniably a titan in both theatre and film, but his presence also felt somewhat distracting. It's worth noting that the play likely wouldn't have been produced without him, and the theatre was packed to capacity largely due to his star power. Your assessment of the play resonates with my own experience watching it 👍

I thought the actors did a great job but honestly I didn’t get the point of having this show staged in a warehouse. They had a pretty standard theatre stage. And I really really didn’t understand the costuming. It took me out of the play. The women all looked business casual ?

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Are they dating real life? Tanya Reynolds and Freddie Fox, hence the chemistry? I wish I could watch.

Men with a fetish couldn't be more obvious 😂

Not sure why you would go to see a one man show and then say you would of like other actors in it. That defeats the object ?