Watch on the Rhine London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (5)
See it if you want to see an interesting political play, excellently staged in such a small space and brilliantly acted by the whole cast.
Don't see it if you don’t want to see yet another political play set during WW2. Read more
See it if A great play with great acting.
Don't see it if You're not a fan of political dramas
See it if You want a great GREAT play
Don't see it if What’s not to like? It’s ace! Read more
See it if you like historical show, a highly entertaining and still relevant play with a great cast
Don't see it if prefer contemporary plays. The staging has a feel of a more traditional play
See it if you like world war 2 as a theme. Cast is phenomenal, especially the kids and Patricia Hodge.
Don't see it if you are not willing to watch a slow play about a historical theme. Except not much action.
Critic Reviews (11)
"This is a handsomely mounted, well-acted work that strums reliably on the emotions, but feels inescapably like a museum piece."
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" ‘Watch on the Rhine’ was written for a specific time. It must have been incendiary in its day. It’s not now. But its shift from bourgeoise cosiness to shocking violence remains bravura stuff."
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"Lillian Hellman’s 1941 play looks like the silver screen come to life...While its plot has the feel of a twisty crime thriller...we are so engaged by what it asks of us and its tension that the melodrama does not jar."
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"Watchable ... but more curio than classic."
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"McDougall frames the play with flickering cinematic visual effects...For all that, it’s still, in essence, a dowdy drawing room exercise, mounted on Basia Binkowska’s decorous set."
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"For all its oddity, and over-writing, the play grips...It may not come back for another 40 years, but it feels like an important piece in the history of theatre."
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"This 'Watch on the Rhine' is well worth watching: not in a long time has a show come so honestly by the standing ovation at its close."
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"...It captures the feeling of an era about to unravel, a time – much like our own febrile political moment – when political apathy collided violently with extreme reactionary ideology."
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