We went to see "School for Scandal" at the Barbican last weekend. A production that the critics haven't really liked. And the attendance on Saturday was poor - so much so that they closed the Cricle, where we had booked seats, and upgraded everyone to the Stalls.
So we had a first-class view of something that turned out to be really rather good. The production tried to capture the dissolute world of Sheridan's play through punky scene-shifters, and raucous club music, along with a certain scruffiness amongst the sets and staging. Which I thought worked quite well.
The cast was strong, including Katherine Parkinson (from The IT Crowd and The Great Outdoors), and we had a great time.
I like the layout of the Barbican theatre a lot anyway (I went there often when the RSC were in residence in the early '90s), and it also has some of the comfiest seats of any auditorium I know.
So the moral is, you shouldn't trust the critics.
(Not even me...)
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