Brokeback Mountain (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (120)
See it if you want to see and excellent adaptation of the original short story.
Don't see it if you're expecting it to be based on the film.
See it if You like a beautiful story well told through engaging performances, imaginative staging and sublime musical accompaniment.
Don't see it if You’re after something with bells and whistles. This is an intimate, emotionally charged tale.
See it if Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist bring charisma and great stage presence. Beautifully staged. Original songs add to the emotional atmosphere.
Don't see it if if you expect fast moving fluff. Some may feel it is slow moving. Staging in the round doesn’t provide great sight lines for whole show.
See it if You like a quick show and no interval
Don't see it if You are homophobic
See it if you want a simply staged, superbly acted and incredibly poignant rendition of this tale. I was engrossed from start to finish- beautiful.
Don't see it if you want a fast paced show. This has a very slow to unravel story but it manages to captivate nonetheless.
See it if your into romance and beautiful told story with a little music
Don't see it if you like long shows its a 90 minute short play done great
See it if if you like the movie or are fans of Mike Faist or Lucas Hedges. The stage play stays true to the movie.
Don't see it if if gay-themed plays are not your thing.
See it if You liked the movie. You care LGBTQ+ themes. You enjoy great acting - Lucas and Mike are brilliant.
Don't see it if You don't care for the theme.
Critic Reviews (15)
" 'Brokeback Mountain' is a story of enduring love that speaks to the need to love openly and freely - and if there's anything the world needs, it's more love."
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"This is a gem of a show, marrying two arthouse-cool American actors with an oddball selection of offstage talent to produce something quietly moving."
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"The music here is a lovely touch, but really it’s an atmospheric flourish rather than the heart and soul of the production, which really amounts to an efficient retelling of Proulx’s story."
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"The play’s ending is stark, leaving our sobs stuck, dry, in our throats. The men’s unlived lives, their unspent passions, are desolately evoked."
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"This adaptation of the book that became an Oscar-winning film has a semi-musical approach that charms, but it doesn't overwhelm the emotions"
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"There’s atmosphere aplenty in Jonathan Butterell’s production… [but] I’m not sure this new version brings as much to the table [as the movie]. The slender storyline is punctuated by fragments of tasteful but generic numbers … leave us wanting more."
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"It remains a story full of feeling, but never quite rising to the heights of poetry and meaning that you expect."
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"If only the shame, violence and regret depicted here was purely historical. It’s not, of course – and perhaps that’s why this remarkable drama, which agonisingly illustrates the consequences of love denied, so thoroughly breaks your heart."
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