Dimetos at the Donmar is an odd play and I'm finding hard to come up with a definite opinion on it. So instead of a review I have come up with 10 points, like Lydia and Sofia in the play who name 10 beautiful things a day.1. It is rare that a production smells right but the oil lamps not only give off the glow of the country but fill the auditorium with a pleasing/worrying burning smell.
2. A play of sexual tension, which at times is too painful to watch and at other times mesmerising and beautiful.
3. Dimetos (Jonathan Pryce) argues at the start of the play that he is an engineer not a story teller - ironically untrue.
4. Holliday Grainger is a little too hysterical as Lydia, this jarrs with the power and wisdom of her words. She lacks the audience sympathy, even her fate seems to over the top (however it is an impressive trick).
5. Douglas Hodge does an amiable job as a still relatively new director. His direction and vision seems clear and precise which is really all one can ask for.
6. What's with the current love of sand? Trojan Women, The Family Reunion, Dimetos
7. Boy, does the Donmar love to put water in a set, whether its needed or not.
8. The stones in the pockets of Dimetos seems a very morbid image, which contrasts with the previous sexual one.
9. Pryce's wild ravings constrast wonderfully with Reid's deep set anger and annoyance. The two older actors end the play in childish banter, they are stripped of every emotion except anger and fear.
10. Alex Lanipekun is fantastic
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