Tää oli jotensakin niin kiva kirjoitus loistavasta The Pass näytelmästä, että pakko laittaa. Postcards from the Gods -blogista, kannattaa lukea koko postaus, sillä siinä oli hurjan paljon muutakin asiaa kun itse näytelmästä!
It’s unfair to lay all this at Donnelly’s feet. He’s written a great
play, and I’m using it as an excuse to wonder what, if anything, is the
purpose of this apparent morality kick that theatre has been on since
the ancient Greeks. I mean, is there even any sort of proof that this
sort of trajectory teaches us valuable lessons? I mean, doesn’t looking
at the rest of the world rather suggest that, in the main, people who
push hard for what they want tend to get what they want, and don’t seem
to suffer from spectacular cosmic retribution? Or is this a case of
theatre providing us with a bit of escapist wish-fulfilment: confirming
to us that actually, despite having more money than we could ever
possibly dream of, footballers are actually deeply unhappy deep down?
JA
But this all feels like a lot of unfair carping. The Pass is really well done. Not least by Russell Tovey who really is a revelation here. I mean, sure, he was lovely in The History Boys,
and he was good in all that TV stuff he’s done (at least, what I’ve
seen of it), but this is actually one of those parts that really let’s
an actor off the leash to do a bit of furniture chewing. And here he’s
got that same hectoring energy that Rory Kinnear has, or a young Steven
Mackintosh had.
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