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The sort of play the professional reviewers rave about, and probably rightly.
One moans that this production goes for a two act rather than three act
structure as originally written - the monkey didn't notice particularly.
Really, this is all about performances, and Jonathan Pryce turns in something
that probably drains him every night. A character obviously studied and who
becomes ever more eerily watchable as the evening continues.
Peter McDonald and Sam Spruell as Aston and Mick respectively manage to be both
controlled and controlling, with Spruell's intentions revealed at a speed the
director judges well.
If the text is the usual Pinter (which to the monkey sometimes sounds as if he
is having a laugh at our expense) then the team here get the most out of it in a
finely tuned evening.
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