![]() ![]() I can’t help wondering if this show might have missed its moment as a stage adaptation, particularly as its bohemian middle-class sensibility and absurd romantic flamboyance is magnified in the theatre in a way that doesn’t happen on the page: its characters seem a mite irritating, and the scenario quaint. ![]() Ben Watson’s father doesn’t quite have the right comic tone, and Kate Batter has a thankless task as Rose, whose desperation turns to gold-digging and back to desperation again. There is such a lot to like here, from Ti Green’s brilliant design, in which the crumbling castle for which the Mortmains cannot raise the rent, is constructed out of chairs and ladders like a gothic Ikea, to Shona Morris’s movement, which comes into its own during Cassandra’s desperate journey to London.Īspects still need work: the rich American brothers Neil (Luke Dale) and Simon (Theo Boyce), the latter the heir to the local hall and the man at whom Rose sets her cap, are dull as ditchwater. Luke Dale, Shona White and Julia St John in I Capture the Castle at Watford Palace theatre, then on tour. ![]()
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