It’s that time of year again when one tries to justify the humongous expense of theatre-going by trying to seize on a few happy memories in the desperate hope that they justify the outlay.
Yes, it’s the Whingies 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘The White Guard’
The Whingers Awards 2010 – the very worst and the not so bad
Friday 31 December 2010Review – The White Guard, National Theatre
Wednesday 17 March 2010
To be perfectly honest the Whingers really weren’t looking forward to Mikhail Bulgakov‘s The White Guard which doesn’t really support our claim to approach every theatrical sortie with an open mind. Actually, “blank” mind is probably closer to the truth.
So why did we book tickets for it then, you might ask? To which our response would be: “mind your beeswax” or, if we were in a better mood, “because if we only went to see things we knew we’d like we’d hardly go at all”.
We go to the theatre because we want to be surprised and the bigger the surprise the better. We want to enter a 3 hours plus (with two intervals) play with heavy hearts and come out raving about Jerusalem. And we want to drag our feet into the Lyttelton for yet another adaptation of an old Russian play and come out saying, “The National Theatre has come up trumps again! Hoorah for the National Theatre!”
Of course, these things don’t usually happen. Such occasions are rarer than hen’s teeth. But sometimes… Read the rest of this entry »
A West End Whinger 