My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash.
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.
