more than one string
I really tried to find something to like about it. The opening and closing monologues were lovely. And the set was stunning.
I’ve taken over 700 words in my review to say that – I did wax lyrical about those two things. But I also had to mention the other stuff that wasn’t good, as I couldn’t furnish a whole review with just the above paragraph…
What an incredible play. I absolutely loved it. Honestly deserves more conversation, more sitting round the table with people from all sorts of different backgrounds to discuss and learn from each other. With understanding and tolerance, so much is possible.
I love this show so much. I’ve always loved this show. I loved the film when it first came out (pardon the pun), I sat through most of it with my jaw gaping, as so much of that world was unknown to me at the time. When the show first came out in London I remember going to see it with Jason Donovan playing Tick and I loved the show incarnation just as much as the film. I remember almost everyone in the audience being female, and I went with Andy, who felt like he’d wandered into a Hen Party by mistake. He wasn’t wrong – it did feel like that.
Kevin Clifton is a revelation in this, in fact all the people on the stage were wonderful. It had some interesting choices, some I like and some I don’t, because of the change in flavour it gives. But Kevin Clifton – oh what a joy to see him dancing in some parts, properly letting himself out of the box.
I worked with Max Hopkins during Oliver Twist at Brighton Open Air Theatre in 2024, and here he is with his first play, co-written with his sister Holly. As a first play it’s really interesting, with so much potential.
I feel so lucky with the exquisite theatre I have seen so far this week. This, Jane Eyre, is STUNNING and I cried so much I had to wash my glasses as I couldn’t even see properly. But truly magical theatre moves you – or it should. Tears of being profoundly moved by stunning theatre, I’m not ever going to apologise for that.
Don’t miss this.
I loved this so very much. Stunning production. Absolutely loved it. Inspired such interesting discussions at the interval with people I’ve not really spoken with before, which was great and really rewarding. I noticed a lot of silence coming out of the theatre, but I think that was processing – it’s a lot, this play, but so rewarding. Would I watch it again? Yes. Plus, at no point was it “worthy”, and for that I’m so grateful. It was a lot, but not too much.
Stunning superb theatre. Even outdoors in the howling wind and threatening rain. Brilliant.
‘This Is My Theatre’ are at the top of their game.
This was really interesting – it’s incredibly hard to adapt a novel, especially a spy novel, into something the size of a play. It has to be about what you leave out, rather than trying to cram things in. However, the first act was chapter headings and a lot of walking in circles leading to many fewer people in the audience in the second act than there had been in the first. Those that stayed were in for a treat because this second act was super. It’s the acting that elevates this, the acting is 5 star. And without Ralf Little, this would have been stale as a soggy pancake to be honest – he elevated it and drove it with fierceness all the way through. I adore him – not going to lie, I’m so pleased he’s as fantastic a theatre actor as he is on the TV screen. Not all of them are. We’ll leave that there. I’d LOVED to have seen him do White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. I did joke to Andy that if he’d jumped off the stage and asked me to run away with him that Andy would have had competition..!
Potentially interesting – but needs further development in script, rehearsal and staging.
This has great potential: Broadway Baby: LIGHTHOUSE