"Man and Boy may still not show Rattigan at his most humanly rich. But this production – in all its ruthless, game-playing glory – surely shows the play in its finest light."
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“It’s a great, grandstanding, over the top performance, though even Rattigan’s most ardent cheerleaders would struggle to call this a great play.”
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“The drama is so arch that it seems operatic – the bigger the performances, the more you feel removed from Rattigan’s subtexts.”
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“This is an extraordinary couple of hours of theatre, the performance of the year wrapped up in a wild production that tears up everything we thought we knew about how to stage good old Terence Rattigan.”
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"While the two lead performances in Anthony Lau’s revival at the National compel, its glaring deficit is that it strains too hard to jazz things up experimentally."
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“With the peerless Ben Daniels outstanding as Antonescu, it has a savagery and sharpness that make it utterly compelling.”
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“No one in this play has the intellectual heft or bravery to remotely challenge Antonescu, and that makes it ultimately unsatisfying to watch.”
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"I’d venture that the play itself feels a little better than its bad rep would suggest – unlikely and ultimately undercooked, yes, but nonetheless hugely entertaining and provocative."
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