Blanche McIntyre’s hectic production attempts to convey the riotous vice of Ben Jonson’s Jacobean London fair, but falters in translation to modernity.'
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This feels like a production constructed by someone who knows the play intimately...although it’s always enjoyable and has an agreeable momentum, it can feel confusing at times...'
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It definitely hasn't aged as well as some of the best Jacobean plays out there, but what is nice to report is that director Blanche McIntyre has a very solid stab at bringing it into the modern-day...'
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The pace quickens in the second half after a first act that rather drags despite the play's chaotic nature. Overall it doesn’t quite fulfil its promise.'
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For all its undoubted spirit, the production feels a bit contained, and never really has the feel of an actual fair...Maybe not all the fun of the fair, but most of it.'
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How did a bawdy riot end up so antiseptically dull?'
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Jonson’s rackety slice of 1614 London life is here given a raucous, coarsely amusing update by Blanche McIntyre...her staging stays mostly on the right side of panto, with moments of fine comedy and one chilling interlude.'
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Blanche McIntyre’s modern dress production throws in endless ideas; an excellent cast give it their all...yet all that energy doesn’t come close to making sense of a densely written comedy with...a convoluted storyline.'
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