The play, adapted by Duncan Macmillan and Ostermeier, is propelled by blasts of oomph.
It feels so marvelously fresh that it could have been written today.
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The line had the Barbican audience whooping with irresistible, gleeful laughter.
Tom Burke and Care Blanchett in ‘The Seagull’ at London’s Barbican TheatreMarc Brenner
The reference wasnt in the show last week.
No deals for a transfer to New York have been set yet.
Ostermeiers past productions ofHamletandRichard IIIboth played at BAMs Harvey Theater.
Jason Wakins in ‘The Seagull’ at the Barbican TheatreMarc Brenner
The modern dress production at the Barbican is executed with the kind of infectious dynamism for which audiences hunger.
All too often these re-examinations of classic pieces can become an endurance test.
Who will wilt first, the audience or the actors?
However, I didnt feel that at the Barbican.
And whos not going to have fun watching Blanchett tap-dance and doing the splits!
