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Opens: 19/04/2012 Closes: 12/05/2012 Rose Theatre, Kingston
With Noises Off impressing at the Old Vic, plus a new novel and a season of plays coming up in Sheffield, you can barely escape Michael Frayn. Alison Steadman stars in his philosophically comic 1993 play, Here, concerning couple Phil and Cath as they face domestic disagreements and a nosy neighbour. For more information visit: http://www.rosetheatrekingston.org/rose-productions/here Buy: https://uk.patronbase.com/_RoseTheatreKingston/Productions/4029/Performances
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Guardian“Starved of day-to-day realism...” There is something self-denying about Frayn's almost total exclusion of any reference to the young couple's family, friends, jobs or shared past. What you get is an accurate study of behavioural tendencies set in the immediate present...
 
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The Telegraph“A theatrical dud...” Though it is certainly not true of his best plays and novels, Frayn sometimes gives the impression that he is all brain and no heart, and for long, arid stretches that is certainly the case here with Here...
 
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this is london“Grindingly pedantic...” The trouble is that there are some domestic squabbles to which no outsiders should be privy and Here invites us to sit in on two patience-trying hours of one...
 
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The Stage“A duel of wits and wordplay...” Substantially reworked by the author, this gently amusing three-hander still doesn’t really match up to Frayn’s best work, yet it is not hard to see why he remains, as he says, “obstinately attached” to it...
 
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Whatsonstage.com“Moving in a curiously original way...” Frayn offers a heavily revised and re-jigged version of a play that is part philosophical exercise and part love story wrapped in smart but unshowy dialogue revolving round the occupation of a bare attic apartment in suburbia...
 
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