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Ella Garland ‏@Ella_Garland

He delivered a knock-out performance onstage and was a true gent off of it, what an absolute legend!#richardarmitage

Silent In Flames ‏@SilentInFlames

I snatched one half of Proctor's torn confession yesterday. It has a little RA squiggle & some "blood" on it.

Saw this last night. It does feel like there is a good performance with a great one waiting to come out. As mentioned before the first half is way too long. It ended at 9.15 yesterday, half an hour interval, then until 11.10ish.
 
I particularly agree with what was said before, the beginning part is way too long - over ten minutes. For me it doesn't add anything to the play aside from setting an atmosphere. Plus the marriage scene, while I adored it, could be reduced a bit, too. Anyway, the pace of the whole first half feels very, very slow. Not helped by the glacial scene changes. I just don't feel the material and the actors need these add-ons.
 
The second half has much more pace and tension and I was glad for the break before the last act because it all gets very intense. The actors are uniformly good. I think Richard Armitage comes through with the goods so to speak but I do wish the shouting could be reigned in a bit. Some of the more enraged lines were not intelligible to me.
 
On seating: I would recommend against where I sat (on the stage, looking out at the usual seating). Esp. if sat next to the entrance between the 2 blocks in the lower rows, the view is blocked quite a lot by the actors standing on the edge. I missed roughly 15 per cent of the action I would say.
 
Anyway, if this is stripped back a bit, I think it would become amazing - but it is definitely worth a visit either way.

If you ignore my face it’s a really good picture.

Ich sagte ja, dass man die Überlänge beachten und möglicherweise straffen bzw. kürzen sollte. Entschuldigt, wenn das blöd klingt ohne das Stück gesehen zu haben, aber ich habe halt so meine Erfahrungswerte und mein Gefühl für derlei Dinge ist schon ausgeprägt.
Ich weiß, dass ich damit gegen die spreche, denen auch fünf Stunden RA nicht genug sein würde, doch darum geht's ja letztendlich gar nicht. Ein solches Stück ist halt doch viel mehr als ein mega-populärer Hauptdarsteller. Ich hätte dies auch bei anderen Schauspielern bemängelt und nicht einmal um die geht es eigentlich, eher um die Regie. Mache mich gerade total unbeliebt hier... schon klar.