REVIEWS
“A finely geared drama… shrewdly judged… Blake Ritson is superb, a beautifully nuanced study in effortful composure… Bertie Carvel [gives] an exquisitely created performance of great confidence and maturity. Rope is intriguing, an absorbing and compelling acted piece of theatre”
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard, 17 December 2009
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“Roger Michell’s revival at the Almeida is the best I’ve seen… Bertie Carvel [is] riveting… Brandon and Granillo are compellingly played too... the whole show is like Pinter by gaslight, strange, hypnotic and suitably chilled for this time of year.”
Michael Coveney, What’s On Stage, 17 December 2009
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“Stylishly done…Carvel offers a riveting portrait”
Michael Billington, Guardian, 17 December 2009
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“Excellently done… Bertie Carvel is superb…a transporting piece of theatre”
Siobhan Murphy, Metro, 18 December 2009
“The evening does grip… strong performances”
Benedict Nightingale, Times, 18 December 2009
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“A chillingly dark work… Cadell played with gorgeous poise by Bertie Carvel”
Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail, 18 December 2009
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“Roger Michell’s production is…terrifically tense…a sort of dramatic pressure-cooker… Blake Ritson is superb… [with] a devilishly wily, effete performance from Bertie Carvel.”
Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday, 20 December 2009
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“This is a play of infinite subtlety… It all amounts to a deliciously macabre Christmas treat.”
Tim Walker, Sunday Telegraph, 20 December 2009
“Not so much a “whodunit” as a “whydunit”, Roger Michell’s darkly brooding staging ratchets up the tension to breaking point and it is acted with a scorching intensity.”
Mark Shenton, Sunday Express, 20 December 2009
“Roger Michell’s fascinating reinvention of Rope… the Titus Andronicus of the 20th century… In a wonderful speech, [Rupert Cadell] talks about the city at night, spinning a web of melancholy phrases… It is delivered magnificently by Carvel, one of the most arresting of young British actors.”
Susannah Clapp, The Observer, 20 December 2009
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“Bertie Carvel’s Cadell is superb… Blake Ritson, too, is excellent as Brandon… he has a disturbing energy about him and is well complemented by Alex Waldmann. The climax, then, is transfixing, and Michell draws out the black comedy nicely, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a ditsy society girl prattling on about murder… in the final confrontation, the staging tightens the moral noose expertly.”
Sarah Hemming, Financial Times, 21 December 2009
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ARTICLES
Roger Michell interviewed in the Metro, 9 December 2009
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