Experience: 8/10
By Arthur Wing Pinero, with ornamentation by Patrick Marber
Directed by Joe Wright
Venue: Donmar Warehouse
Date: Thursday 28th March 2013
This was a real eye-opener. A previous touring production we’d seen had been rather bland and we remembered very little of it. Today’s performance was anything but bland, and the memories will keep us chuckling a good while yet. It’s not clear from the play text how much Patrick Marber has added, nor which bits are his, and since I don’t know the play that well I can’t be sure how much his work affected our experience. It would be interesting to see another version sometime to compare them, but that may not happen anytime soon. This version is definitely affectionate towards the original, and well worth seeing.
