Dancing at Lughnasa, more like Dancing at Lughassa

Today was our first official day exploring London. We went on a very long and tiring bus tour and then finished the day off with a production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the national theatre. Going into the show, I already had low expectations from reading the script and I was miserably tired from the tour, so I wasn’t exactly excited to enter the building. Now that I have seen the show and have had plenty of time to process it, I can confidently say that I did not enjoy it. My issue is with the scipt. It was boring, pointless, and bland. The play never asked or answered any questions, it just put people in a room and made them talk about very boring topics that never ended in anything ever being gained. The script gave the actors no objectives to achieve and no truths to live in. There were parts that I enjoyed, that being the directing, set, and acting. The directing was amazing, for every bad piece of dialouge there was an amazing blocking choice to fix it. The choreo was also phenomenal, the one and only dancing scene gave me chills. The director had a clear and beautifully eye for the show, it’s just too bad that they chose a bad script. The set was incredibly detailed, and although I don’t have too much to say about it, it added so much to the play and easily carried the entire production. Lastly, the acting was solid. I had some comments on Michael and the Aggie really started to strain her voice in the second act, but all the actors did a great job. Maggie was my favortie actor by a long slide. All in all, the production was great, but the script was horrendous. 

2/10 (Needed more cowbell)