It’s ... bewildering ... in its intensity, even if it’s near-impossible ... to give Eliot’s words the same forensic attention in the theatre as they demand on the page. This is weighty, powerful stuff, fuelled by Eliot’s deep thought and Fiennes’s committed, courageous performance.
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His delivery is mostly urgent and incantatory, forcefully hitting the same note on each word. Even with such dense material, Fiennes casts a compelling spell.
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Fiennes ... beautifully honours the spirit of the text, which poses questions rather than forcing answers. This isn’t a show where you can sit back and let the entertainment come to you; it’s one that leaves room for you to find your own reading.
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For all its admirable ambition, the evening has a whiff of confected grandeur. There were many, many moments where I didn’t understand a word. But ... this is a bracing, strangely refreshing evening.
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Words flow like water in TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, shimmering with allusion, swirling and eddying with the ideas and fractured philosophies of a poet at the height of his powers.
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