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Leicester Square Theatre rated: 2/5 from 1 visitor reviews

Address: 6 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BX
Phone: 084 4847 2475

Venue short url: http://www.skiddle.com/venues/9805/

Type of venue: Live

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Review of 'Miracle' at Leicester Square Theatre 12/01/2010
Overall rating: 3.5

A tarot card reading is offered by a slightly menacing fortune teller on the way in to the performance space (the tiny basement of Leicester Square Theatre), the set looks good, a derelict church, populated for the moment by a softly moaning medieval troubadour with a lute and a somewhat malevolent looking seamstress - what can it all mean?

Having sat through this astonishingly clunky production of a baffling, pointless play by apparently acclaimed South African Reza de Wet, I am none the wiser.
A starving bunch of actors arrive in the hometown of one of their number where a figure from his past threatens to undo him and his blossoming family life - is the widow in black truly evil? Will she tempt the thespians into downfall and damnation with a picnic basket?
Who knows and who cares?

I desperately tried to find a plot, an interesting character or at the very least a funny line to dull the pain of the excruciating acting I was witnessing.
Admittedly the characters were paper thin, the lines both ludicrous and forgettable, yet even with these meagre materials a good actor can extract some entertainment - even if resorting to parody.
Not here.
Lines fluffed, cues missed, - 'dead air' while people figured out where they were supposed to be standing.. It was like witnessing an early rehearsal - truly astonishing for a West End play featuring an Oscar nominated actress. Susannah York's resonant voice and expressive eyes were in the wrong place at the wrong time and it was a disheartening sight.
At least she was enthusiastic and could move - the wooden performance of one of the younger actors was nothing if not consistent -arms pinned to sides with pained expression for two hours - perhaps he was mimicking the audience..
A shockingly amateur production of a play without depth, plot, meaning, humour or in fact merit of any kind. Go and be truly amazed.
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