Peter Gynt London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (1)
See it if You love a funny and clever drama. Amazing acting and a long play but absorbing so ok.
Don't see it if If you don’t like long pieces of theatre you need to pay attention to.
Critic Reviews (10)
You can admire the scope and the professionalism. But I feel we’ve spent too long already this year listening to men with a sense of entitlement and nothing to back it up.'
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...for all the bonkers interludes...and McArdle’s brilliance, ‘Peter Gynt’ increasingly feels like a chore, and a smattering of good humour can’t conceal the play’s fundamental sour slogginess.'
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... it feels as though Hare hasn’t adequately re-purposed it for the 21st century, and, for all the resources Jonathan Kent’s three-hours plus production throws at it, a sense of aimlessness and even amateurishness takes hold.'
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...director Jonathan Kent has lavished no end of care on the production... But you are still faced with a fantastical drama that meanders back and forth around an alarmingly repetitive stock of philosophical ideas...'
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Despite running at over three hours...this version is never boring... but it doesn't ever quite resolve the mad veering between fantasy and reality...McArdle [is] the main reason to see the play.'
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It's by no means an easy watch, but this entirely watchable production both surprises and illuminates a play that I've previously thought was impossible to actually enjoy.'
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David Hare brings modern madness to Ibsen's epic... Hare updates Ibsen’s 1867 dramatic poem with wit and ingenuity, resulting in a sharp satire on contemporary mores.'
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While David Hare’s satirical update...contains some witty lines and a magnetic central performance from James McArdle, for the most part it’s tedious and heavy-handed stuff. And long. Very long.'
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