Daily Archives: November 25, 2015

First Night- review of ” Evening At The Talk House” National Theatre, London

First Night – National Theatre  ( unusual to have a theatre review here but our worlmedia website is down for technical problems, so it is here temporarily )

Labelled by American newspapers (like the New York Times)  A murder mystery, “Evening at the Talk House”  by American actor and playwright Wallace Shawn ( world premier opened at the National Theatre  Dorfman Theatre Tuesday 24 November ) wasn’t  certainly  seen  this way by our reviewer. This very well produced (not all the acting on same level as the sympathetic tight production by director Ian Rickson)  is a mixture of streams running into wider emotional valley. A subtle political statement on how far things can go when futuristic society self-righteous authorities can take individuals out  for the general good; ruining parallel some human psychology on how individual behaviour can vibrate from speaking one’s inner thoughts, to that in two-hander conversation, to a discussion argument in a group, as well as how much our present  scares us that the  raft we cling into would be our memories of a safer past.

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