When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other - Play Review
The Cate Blanchett play at the National Theatre As it wraps its run, the new play at the National Theatre, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, (known hereafter as the 'Cate Blanchett play') has left many bewildered, gobsmacked or just plain shocked. With reports of people fainting in the front rows and others just walking out in disgust, this is my take on what exactly I went to see. First things first, whilst I do love going to the theatre, this play in particular would not have enticed me to travel 155 miles, just to see it were it not for the small fact that Cate Blanchett (of Lord of the Rings, Carol and Thor: Ragnarok fame) was in the leading role. So the play. I know that it is meant to be various variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela, mostly because that's the second part of this play's outrageously long title. Martin Crimp, the playwright, admits that he was particularly inspired by the production of discourse that occurs within the...