Vassa London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (1)
See it if you fance seeing a decent drama with decent acting, though nothing special.
Don't see it if if you are expecting something special or extraordinary. Read more
Critic Reviews (10)
A rare misfire from north london's creative powerhouse.
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You have a sense of everyone working very hard to make something fly. Vassa remains resolutely earthbound, not quite funny enough or black enough to make its mark.
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Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival.
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The capable actors are directed, it seems, to extremes of caricature and over-acting...the year's most disappointing show so far.
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Siobhan Redmond is impressive as a tyrannical mother trying to rescue her debt-ridden family in Tinuke Craig’s strangely rootless production
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I have seen shows worse than Vassa, but I have seen few productions with a less sure sense of what they are.
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Bartlett’s adaptation is very, very funny, and its nihilist jokes are underscored by Craig’s uproarious staging.
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It feels like this is a production at odds with its text...There’s a palpable imbalance to things. Sometimes the actors deadpan and sometimes they ramp up their grotesquery, but there’s never a clear reason why they’re doing either.
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