I'm afraid I did not really get on with this RSC production. It seemed gimmicky and to end up a bit of a mess. Somehow, the flow of the play got lost and I felt we ended up with isolated scenes. I did not think the sudden transformation at the end of Act One to our observing the backstage worked - quite the opposite; it was lost on me. Equally the rather silly bits of audience participation seemed a distraction. Some of the acting was good, in particular Lucy Phelps as Rosalind but on the other hand Sophie Stanton's delivery of the 'all the world's a stage' and seven ages masterpiece felt very underpowered.
All in all, this felt like an irritating waste of time and money - so different from the National's production four years ago. My biggest beef is that all the distractions completely caused me to lose the thread of the story. The only positives for me were some of the acting and the extraordinary giant figure that emerged and served as a backdrop for the final scenes. That was, to be fair, amazing and rather beautiful.
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