GOOD (London) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (47)
See it if you like plays that analyse the human condition through brilliant acting, interesting staging, complex dialogue
Don't see it if you find the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust themes that you struggle with
See it if you're interested in nuanced explorations of history and morality
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See it if David Tennant commands the stage throughout. A very good character study on how someone can go from good to evil.
Don't see it if The show is minimalist theatre, so if you prefer the spectacle of the west end, you won't find that here.
See it if you want to see how easy it is to be pulled into a web of evil.Very important during this time of rising racism, hatred, intolerance.
Don't see it if you want a light comedy.This show is important.Incredible acting, well directed, excellent writing. See it.
See it if you enjoy well-written plays on banalities of evil. Mr. Tennant is terrific as a 1930s German intellectual rationalizing Nazi party ideology
Don't see it if you have a hard time following actors playing multiple roles, sometimes switching mid-sentence, or events that are presented out of sequence Read more
See it if you want to witness a tour-de-force by the sublime Sharon Small, who seamlessly switches between the characters of mother, wife, and lover.
Don't see it if you hate plays with dark themes.
See it if you enjoy slow-paced, tension-riddled theatre that lingers with you afterwards
Don't see it if you don't like obvious onstage multi-roling
See it if you want an engaging play depicting the ease with which one's morals can be twisted if you allow it. Fantastic from Tennant, as you'd expect
Don't see it if you're not prepared for what ends up being quite a philosophical evening at the theatre or you need a lush set to be engaged.
Critic Reviews (11)
"Although grimly funny and studiously banal at times, it progresses inexorably...This is an important rather than an enjoyable watch."
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" 'Good' is a gradually enraging drama that makes us hear afresh the denials that lead populism into dangerous waters, and may well be a lesson for our times."
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"In a hypnotic performance, [Tennant] ... keeps us in suspense, giving conspiratorial flashes and darkening into malevolence, but, in the main, eerily neutral and preoccupied ... Less commendable are the Cabaret-style ticket-prices at the top end: £155 for the seat I was sitting in? It was good, but not that good."
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"It's a chilling performance rather than a moving one...Good isn't perfect, but its lessons demand to be understood."
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"It’s a strong framing, and there are striking, resonant messages within this work, but as drama it unsettles when really it should devastate."
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"Don’t expect fireworks. What you get is something stranger, more insidious, and I suspect much more memorable."
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"...the play’s pertinence, in our age of populism, scapegoating and sloganeering, remains sharp. It’s a grim nightmare of quietly lethal potency."
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"Tennant’s performance is terrifyingly magnificent; never missing a beat, Tennant keeps the audience enthralled, continually shocking us in the cool detachment with which he delivers some of the most chilling lines."
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