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London Assurance
Opens: 02/03/2010 Closes: 02/06/2010
National Theatre, London
Dion Boucicault's brilliantly funny script introduces us to Sir Harcourt Courtly. Courtly is enticed away from his fashionable London lifestyle to the rural Oak Hall in Gloucestershire, where things soon become complicated when a love triangle develops and he becomes ensnared by Lady Gay Spanker.
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Financial Times“All in all the word “romp” would not go amiss...” Cast and audience are alike at play but taking the game seriously to get the most fun out of it...
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this is london“Magnificently silly...” Mark Thompson’s design is handsome: first the grand edifice of Sir Harcourt’s house in Belgravia, then a honey-hued country pile with a lovingly created interior. It’s typical of a production that revels in carefully aligned detail...
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Time Out“Frenetically good fun...” The performances are the great pleasure of Nicholas Hytner's production, in which he choreographs all the delicious silliness with exemplary skill...
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The Telegraph“The whole show is a joy from start to finish...” Mark Thompson designs stylishly capture both metropolitan sophistication and the bucolic pleasures of an idyllic Elizabethan manor house, while Nicholas Hytner’s glowingly affectionate production offers a feast of irresistible comic acting...
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The Times“This is a treat — stylish, hilarious and unmissable...” Sparkling, uproarious comedy, bursting with elegant, biting but warm-hearted wit and revelling in its own mastery of theatrical skill...
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The Independent“The performances are first rate across the board...” To use an oenophile metaphor: it's not like savouring a full-bodied, venerable Burgundy; it's more like getting deliciously tiddly on bumper after bumper of Beujolais Nouveau...
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Whatsonstage.com“Russell Beale falls on Sir Harcourt with typical aplomb...” Nicholas Hytner’s revival of Dion Boucicault’s Victorian comic potboiler is perfectly enjoyable, with pleasurable performances by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw, but it’s not revelatory...
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The Stage“Simon Russell Beale in brilliant form as Sir Harcourt Courtly...” Upcoming star Paul Ready, with all the charm of a stage Hugh Grant, blends bashful romance with quick-witted comedy as Courtly’s wayward son Charles in superbly sustained scenes...
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Guardian“Fills the Olivier with present laughter...” It provides a showcase role for a star actor, here filled to the brim by Simon Russell Beale, and a wealth of eccentric minor parts...
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