When you get free tickets to a West End play by a playwright everyone knows (if only because he was Neil in The Young Ones) with stars most people know (even if you don't yourself) and you arrive to find you're in row Q of the stalls and not behind a pillar, it's all good.
Basic premise for anyone who missed yesterday's entry: Ron Cook and Ralf Little play two journeyman painters employed to help Michelangelo with the Sistine Chapel. Their employment conditions aren't the best and their employer rarely deigns to show up. Are they going to have to save his hide and will he ever remember to pay them?
On the Ceiling is genuinely funny. The script is brilliant - natural, crude and fast-paced - and there are some wonderful moments of physical comedy. But even better than that, there are spine-tingling moments when the two fresco painters reflect on what it means to work on this particular project.
There's a good review on The Stage Online.
Of course it's easy to say when you've got in free, but in my view this production is well worth 15 quid, the price of all tickets in the September sale.
1 comment:
I think that Mumpet & I might like to see this one! We've seen the actual ceiling... It'd be fun to see what NIgel Planer made of it!
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