The Soho Theatre is a small venue - unallocated, bench seating that type of thing -
He was a funny chap but act-before-the-interval-at-Jongleurs funny rather than headline funny.
This particular play is starring Ben Whishaw who came to notice playing the title role in Trevor Nunn's production of Hamlet at the Old Vic in London three years ago. Since then he's appeared in a handful of solid brit flicks such as Layer Cake and Enduring Love but had his biggest part as the lead in the critically acclaimed film Perfume at the end of last year.
I'd been thinking about seeing Leaves of Glass and decided to check what the availability was while I was picking up the McIntyre tickets. Again unallocated seating, £7.50 for the final day of the run.
How can an hour of a reasonably funny comedian be £15 while a play with an actor of the stature of Ben Whishaw be £7.50?
Not that I'm complaining. Far from it, Equus was £50 for a seat on row U. It is obviously a short play because the comedy was on afterwards and, as a bonus, when we were heading upstairs to the theatre to take our seats Ben Whishaw himself was standing chatting on the stairs.
Mosh didn't have a clue who he was so I had to be star struck by myself. Am really looking forward to the play as Whishaw is a very good actor and it will be a rare treat in such an intimate theatre (if you sit on the front row your knees are virtually touching the stage). I also have a feeling that he is going to go on to bigger things and hope to be able to say one day, well I saw him in...