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| The Goat or Who is Sylvia | The Goat or who is Sylvia CLOSED 7 August 2004
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is a Play by Edward Albee, directed by Anthony Page. Edward Albee's controversial play transfers to the West End's Apollo Theatre following its British Premiere at the Almeida Theatre in North London in January 2004 In the same week as receiving an international prize, being awarded a lucrative contract and celebrating his 50th Birthday, Martin is forced to confess to his wife and son that he's involved in a bestial relationship that will probably destroy his marriage, his career and his life. Cast: Jonathan Pryce as 'Martin' along with Kate Fahy, Matthew Marsh and Eddie Redmayne. ...Much of the impact of the play is due to Anthony Page’s almost pitch-perfect production. An outstanding Jonathan Pryce, betrayed by Matthew Marsh’s bullishly incredulous Ross, brings a fidgety, distracted quality to Martin that suggests a man cut off from the real world by his romantic transgression. As his wife, Kate Fahy’s self-possessed grief seems at odds with her objets d’art-smashing fury. But Eddie Redmayne is strikingly fragile as the couple’s 17-year-old gay son, whose own eleventh-hour transgression muddies already murky waters..." The Times | THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA
Apollo (Shaftesbury Avenue) Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1V 7HD.
Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus.
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CLOSED 7 August 2004
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Friday at 7.45pm, Saturday at 8.00pm
Matinees: Wednesday at 3.00pm and Saturday at 5.00pm
Performance length: 1 hour 35 minutes, no interval
| Theatre Ticket Prices: (including booking fee and VAT)
Stalls £47.00
Circle £47.00
Upper Circle £35.00
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| | What's New | The Goat or Who is Sylvia...CLOSED 7 August 2004
Pryce is his usual edgy, brilliant self. The rest of the cast, too, are spot-on and director Anthony Page keeps up the pace throughout the play's 90 minutes. It's not the sort of thing that you'd recommend to your auntie but, as a drama about veterinary passion and the limits of social acceptability, The Goat is nothing of not original. The Express |
Theatre Review | The Goat...Albee's stroke of maverick genius is to milk the situation for quick laughs, acknowledging the grotesque preposterousness of it all, while also cutting to the devastating truth: that things happen in our lives that can be neither comprehended nor controlled, neither undone nor atoned for. His hellishly funny yet deeply poignant vision of a rock-solid family unit shattering to bits in the course of a day, which grips and disorientates like a fever - one minute glacially cool, the next unbearably hot - only gets better with repeated viewing. That's partly because the piece is so ingeniously constructed, and so rife with smart retorts, it's a pleasure to revisit. But also because Anthony Page's production just gets more and more accomplished... A queasy-making evening but quite unmissable. The Daily Telegraph |
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