Comments on: Peer Gynt http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/peer-gynt/ Group authored publication covering theatre and the performing arts in London and beyond Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:24:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: REVIEWS OF PEER GYNT AT BARBICAN BITE 09 « National Theatre of Scotland http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/peer-gynt/#comment-3844 REVIEWS OF PEER GYNT AT BARBICAN BITE 09 « National Theatre of Scotland Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:52 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=1799#comment-3844 [...] Dominic Hill’s production is gutsy, inventive and stylish, finding a gripping, discomfiting immediacy in Ibsen’s perplexing tall-tale of a life squandered in pursuit of the wrong dreams. londontheatreblog.co.uk [...] [...] Dominic Hill’s production is gutsy, inventive and stylish, finding a gripping, discomfiting immediacy in Ibsen’s perplexing tall-tale of a life squandered in pursuit of the wrong dreams. londontheatreblog.co.uk [...]

]]> By: Stephe Harrop http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/peer-gynt/#comment-3459 Stephe Harrop Mon, 04 May 2009 08:12:26 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=1799#comment-3459 I really, really did like it. I'm not saying there weren't tedious bits (like most of act 4), but the comic-horror of the small-town setting really got me (it reminded me strongly of a couple of places - which shall remain nameless - where I did some growing up), and I loved the rootedness and swagger and self-confidence of the thing. And I thought Keith Fleming was just stunning. It's one of very few performances (along with Jonathan Cake's Coriolanus at the Globe) where I actually missed a character when he wasn't onstage. But equally, I also really liked the production a couple of years ago from the National Theatre of Iceland - so maybe I just have a thing about trolls. And you're so very spot on about Cliff Burnett looking like a cross between Nick Cave and Colonel Sanders. An oddly comforting combination, somehow. I really, really did like it. I’m not saying there weren’t tedious bits (like most of act 4), but the comic-horror of the small-town setting really got me (it reminded me strongly of a couple of places – which shall remain nameless – where I did some growing up), and I loved the rootedness and swagger and self-confidence of the thing.

And I thought Keith Fleming was just stunning. It’s one of very few performances (along with Jonathan Cake’s Coriolanus at the Globe) where I actually missed a character when he wasn’t onstage.

But equally, I also really liked the production a couple of years ago from the National Theatre of Iceland – so maybe I just have a thing about trolls.

And you’re so very spot on about Cliff Burnett looking like a cross between Nick Cave and Colonel Sanders. An oddly comforting combination, somehow.

]]> By: Webcowgirl http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/peer-gynt/#comment-3444 Webcowgirl Sun, 03 May 2009 22:36:01 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=1799#comment-3444 Did you really like this? I found it impossible to <a href="http://webcowgirl.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/review-peer-gynt-national-theatre-of-scotland-and-dundee-rep-ensemble-at-the-barbican/" rel="nofollow">make it something I could care about</a> - it was like it was just so big the story itself lost its human heart (or goblin heart if you'd prefer). Did you really like this? I found it impossible to make it something I could care about – it was like it was just so big the story itself lost its human heart (or goblin heart if you’d prefer).

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