(Community Matters) Steven loved the Richard Bean written farce directed by the Nicholas Hytner.
While the show was a bit too Monty Python-esq for me (which Steven absolutely loved), I’m glad to have seen it since Hytner is the Royal National Theatre’s Exec Director and it provides insight into his artistic direction for the enterprise. Since arriving in 2003, he’s shaken up offerings, transfused energy and edginess into the complex which had become stodgy. The show reminded me of the Rude Mechanical’s I’ve Never Been So Happy – slapstick, lots of double entendre, music, even cartoonish and a wildly laughing audience. I said it wasn’t my kind of show, but it certainly was most of the audiences’.
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