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Changeling

Went to see Cheek by Jowl’s version of the Changeling. There are podcast interviews here. It has Olivia Williams in it, who looked famous and then my companion told me was famous. She was in The Postman and Rushmore. Anyway, fame generally passes me by. She did a good job with a difficult part, well counter pointed by Will Keen as De Flores.

Still, what is it with chairs at the moment (see my review of Motortown)? At least these ones didn’t dance, although were pretty integral to the design which was on the whole extremely good.

The brilliant conceit here, was to integrate the mad house plot so closely with the main plot that the suggestion is that the main protoganists are verging on madness and that is what inspires them to so much death and sex and plotting.

Michael Billington reviews it here.

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One Response to “Changeling”

  1. Miriam Craig on July 12th, 2006

    Yes, I saw those two productions and noticed the chair thing too. Very funny. An idea thought up by two directors over a drink, that they both then used, or a symptom of all directors’ inability to leave things alone?
    I much preferred The Changeling to Motortown. I wanted to like Motortown as I think Simon Stephens is great, but I don’t think it came off so well. Disjointed is right.

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