Chance = Change

Even London theatre!!! Last night, we were subjected to an under-cooked, poorly directed, blahly acted hour and a half of A LIFE IN THE THEATER(Mamet) starring the usually wonderful Patrick Stewart (who was not at all wonderful since he was forced to act opposite thin air in the form of) Joshua Jackson, a pallid TV star from the US (DAWSON'S CREEK)...OY!! was it awful...incomprehensible, it was so poorly directed, and the sad actors were totally at a loss as to what the hell to do with what they had...badly designed (a cumbersome wagon coming on and off and on and off and on and off to represent the small dresing room the two actors share) and stupidly lit...i could see so little of the action, that i may as well have napped through the entire thing...we were both angry and depressed by it, and I wanted to ask for our money back, and though we would of course not received a refund, at least I would have made a stand against consumer fraud!!! I can only imagine Patrick Stewart needed the job..that they only had a week to rehearse, and that the director, some Brit who does all of Mamet's stuff over in the UK , had better things on his mind...he was clearly absent from any helpful process. It was awful.Awful. Awful. And if Patrick Stewart does not know that, I would be surprised. But I am reasonably sure that Josh Jackson thinks it's swell! Ecch! Today, FESTEN at the Lyric! Please GOd, let it be good enough to take the taste of last night's mistake out of our mouths!