Saint Joan - a case of miSTAKEn identity?
July 19, 2007The Whingers are rather concerned that an innocent woman may have been needlessly burnt at the stake.
It’s true that when we read a review of something we’ve seen, we often feel that the critic must have been watching a completely different play, but today’s Evening Standard has flummoxed them completely:

We saw Saint Joan last week and don’t remember these women at all.
Nor that dirndl.
Nor do we recall Anne-Marie Duff looking even remotely like that.
And we’d certainly remember all that finger-pointing (it’s one of our hobbies).
Perhaps all French peasants look the same to the Standard’s picture desk. Either that or some of the almost-all male cast are adding a little pep to the proceedings by dragging
up. Don’t they know that the role of Edna Turblad has already been cast?
The voices in the Whingers’ heads say it sure doesn’t look like Shaw.





August 10, 2007 at 8:33 pm
You think that’s funny? Check out what The Times thinks Michael Billington looks like:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2180619.ece