Men Should Weep

SOLD OUT ! 

Lyttelton, National Theatre

View of the National Theatre (lit in red) from across the Thames.

Booked our tickets a few weeks ago to see a play about an extended family in Glasgow living in poverty and dealing with one crisis after another (sharing Granny between families, young child with TB, and alcoholism to name a few).

Heavy Scottish accents so probably missed a quarter of the lines but the context, expressions, and body language filled in the gaps.

Reviews online were mixed in the extreme ---- glowing to folks walking out at interval.

Enjoyed it and the set was amazing!

One big tenement building with a full view of the middle floor (where the main family was depicted) while you could see half of the floor above and half of the floor below. There was activity on all levels (the wife beater on the top floor was visible from the waist down while only the top of the heads could be viewed of the family living on the ground floor).

Besides the play itself, it was interesting to be part of the audience.

There were drinks before and drinks at interval and drinks during the show. Well, it was a 2 hour and 45 minute play so you don’t want to get parched.

It is perfectly okay to bring your glass of wine (or water or coffee or beer) into the theatre and your chocolate ice cream and snack during the performance.

Programs are purchased and not passed out.

Curtain call is simple. No fuss. Very civilized. 

All the actors come out at once, line up, bow a few times, and then it is lights on and everybody heads home.