That is also the mode in which I am used to seeing him, which I mean in an approving fashion, so I am intrigued by the underplaying. How is their Catherine?
Oh, I totally would have assumed the approving - he is highly enjoyable in that mode!
Michele Dotrice is Catherine and she's also very good - she just hadn't been in it so much at the point I made the entry last night. I had expected it to be more the full play, but I think it's also a similar length (& actually, somehow feels even shorter), so it's also made choices about what to emphasise, while obviously being more play-based (in terms of where the scenes happen, who does what and timing). I'm finding it both lovely in itself and it's also giving me new appreciation of just how effective & clever & deft David Mamet's adaptation is.
(I clearly need to obtain the actual play at some point. But anyway, 2/3 adaptations I can confirm as lovely, and I obv how no trouble believing you & edwardianspinsteraunt that the 1948 also is, if I can catch it one day!)
ETA: I think it's only fair to add that I have now finished it, and Michele Dotrice and Alan Badel made me cry at the end.
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Oh, I totally would have assumed the approving - he is highly enjoyable in that mode!
Michele Dotrice is Catherine and she's also very good - she just hadn't been in it so much at the point I made the entry last night. I had expected it to be more the full play, but I think it's also a similar length (& actually, somehow feels even shorter), so it's also made choices about what to emphasise, while obviously being more play-based (in terms of where the scenes happen, who does what and timing). I'm finding it both lovely in itself and it's also giving me new appreciation of just how effective & clever & deft David Mamet's adaptation is.
If you wanted to watch it, it is here on YT, at least visible in my region.
(I clearly need to obtain the actual play at some point. But anyway, 2/3 adaptations I can confirm as lovely, and I obv how no trouble believing you &
ETA: I think it's only fair to add that I have now finished it, and Michele Dotrice and Alan Badel made me cry at the end.