TO BEGIN WITH I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO MISS THIS PLAY. FOR SOME REASON I WAS RUNNING RIDICULOUSLY LATE, SO MUCH SO THAT ON THE TUBE JOURNEY THERE I DECIDED IT WOULD BE BEST TO PREPARE FOR THE DISAPPOINT BY VISUALISING BEING DENIED ENTRY TO THE PLAY I ENVISIONED TO BE ONE OF THOSE 'ONCE IN A LIFETIME' THINGS. SURPRISINGLY THIS DID NOT HELP ME BUT RUNNING DID.
LIKE MOST PEOPLE APPROACHING MISTERMAN I WASN'T TOTALLY SURE WHAT TO EXPECT. I KNEW IT WAS A ONE MAN SHOW STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY AND I HAD HEARD THERE WOULD BE IMPRESSIONS AND HAD BEEN TOLD NOT TO GET A FRONT ROW SEET IF YOU VALUED YOUR CLOTHES AND YOUR FACE, SO I SETTLED FOR SECOND ROW.
IN THE COMMENCING SCENE OF THE PLAY I CAME TO UNDERSTAND THE WARNINGS PASSED ONTO ME AS A PIECE OF BROKEN CASSETTE PLAYER FLEW INTO THE FACE OF THE MAN IN FRONT, NOW I WAS THANKFUL THAT UNLIKE THE MAN I HAD FRIENDS THAT LIKED ME ENOUGH TO WARN ME. THE OPENING SCENE WASN'T QUITE WHAT I HAD EXPECTED, CILLIAN MURPHY HAMMERING A CASSETTE PLAYER TO DEATH AND TAPING STUFFED BEARS OVER HIS EARS. YES, THIS PLAY IS FUNNY! IN FACT ITS FILLED WITH SOME EXCELLENT BLACK HUMOUR, ITS ONLY IN BETWEEN THE GAGS THAT YOU GLIMPSE THE THREAT OF TRAGEDY.
CILLIAN MURPHY'S PERFORMANCE IN MISTERMAN IS STAGGERING. HE RUNS AROUNG THE ENOROMOUS STAGE WITH THE ENERGY OF A SMALL BOY. HE TOTALLY ENGROSSES THE AUDIENCE INTO HIS STRANGE UNSETTLING WORLD. AFTER WATCHING THIS MAN FOR ONE AND HALF HOURS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO EMPATHISE WITH HIM, HE COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING AND I WOULD HAVE FOUND OF WAY OF SYMPATHISING. IT WAS SCAREY HOW MUCH I ENDED UP CARING FOR THE CHARACTER AND I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE, EVEN THE TOUGH MAN IN FRONT OF ME THAT HAD BEEN BOMBARDED BY SHRAPNEL WAS CRYING. THE WHOLE AUDIENCE WAS TENSE AND SILENT.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST PERFORMANCES I HAVE EVER SEEN AND IF YOU PASSED UP THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THIS PLAY THEN YOU SHOULD KICK YOURSELF IN THE FACE BECAUSE THIS IS IN ALL HONESTY IS A MUST SEE!
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