Get directions, The Bridge Theatre is operated by London Theatre Company Productions Limited(registered in England and Wales, Company number 1037977, registered office 7 Savoy Court, London, WC2R 0EX), We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website. It seems sometimes like writer David Hare is attempting to explain the situation to someone who has completely missed the pandemic – rather than engage with an audience who are living through it too, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. At Theatre Weekly we are dedicated to giving theatre a new audience. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. He speaks of the government’s slowness in announcing lockdown, the U-turn in contact tracing, the failure to provide sufficient PPE in hospitals, the plight of care homes, and much more, all of which amounts to political incompetence, hypocrisy and fiasco more heinous, he says, than the Suez crisis and the Iraq war. On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. No sympathy for the Devil - Ralph Fiennes plays David Hare Manuel Harlan. Ralph Fiennes in Beat the Devil. If the season is delayed, automatic refunds will be given for cancelled performances. It doesn’t try to say anything new, exactly, but rather feels like an attempt at keeping a theatrical account of those first few weeks of lockdown – a time capsule, of sorts. Beat the Devil plays in repertoire at the Bridge until 31 October 2020. I have survivor’s rage' The inbuilt flexibility of the Bridge Theatre's auditorium means that it was always going to be a contender for one of the first theatres to be able to reopen. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. It reminds us why Hare matters but also why theatre does – as a place to gather together to confront society’s darkest days and demons.”, The Arts Desk: **** “Yet for all his rage and eloquence, the most powerful point in the evening comes when he makes a simple and almost primal appeal for “Truth”. Nicholas Hytner directs with designs by Bunny Christie, lighting by Jon Clark, sound by Gareth Fry and music by George Fenton. The personal segues into the political and slightly overshadows the tender, first-person story. Beat the Devil is a huge disappointment, but, thankfully, Hare lives to write another play and, hopefully, to return to better form.”, Evening Standard: **** “The piece has such immediacy, and Fiennes such understated charisma, that any fear of Covid-fatigue is overcome. Ralph Fiennes stars in a slapdash and heavy-handed ‘Beat the Devil’, Channel 4’s Me and My Penis can’t resist some tee-hee prurience, Strike: Lethal White is less compelling than its two stars, Billie Piper’s I Hate Suzie is dark comedy at its most frenetic, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? The show is due to open from 27 August and the Bridge Theatre has pledged that if the season is delayed and cannot go ahead for any reason, all tickets will be automatically be refunded. “I don’t have survivor’s guilt,” Fiennes-as-Hare declares near the play’s close, “I have survivor’s rage.”. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Neither strand ends up being particularly rewarding – the former is diaristic and feels remarkably slender, despite the vividness of Hare’s descriptions of his symptoms, and the latter can seem often needlessly didactic. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Bridge Theatre Announces Additional Performances For BEAT THE DEVIl and AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT. Beat the Devil. Photo Credit Manuel Harlan, . Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. “I’m so glad to be alive,” he says, and we glimpse a man – though not always enough of him – who has gone through delirium and despair and come out the other side empathetic, grateful, changed. Likewise, the thrill of being in a theatre again outweighs the strangeness of an audience in face-coverings scattered around an auditorium denuded of seats.”, The Independent: ** “Hare has never been one for subtlety, but these kinds of grand, clunking statements occur too frequently for one to take the righteous undercurrent seriously. This 50-minute play, too, turns recently lived reality into drama, using Hare’s own harrowing experience of the illness as its narrative framework. The playwright contracted coronavirus at the start of lockdown, and this is a dissection of its debilitating effects as well as the politics around the illness. In the best moments, there are sparks of sharp, fierce outrage with Michael Spicer-style putdowns of individual cabinet ministers. Beat the Devil is peppered with familiar statistics and sentiments which are well known to anyone who’s glanced at the news in the last five months. By using this site you accept cookies used to improve and personalise our services and marketing, and for social activity. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Review - Beat the Devil at the Bridge Theatre “Dream and reality become indistinguishable.” This, David Hare’s engrossing new monologue informs us, was part of the bludgeoning battery of effects wrought on his body and mind, as both the playwright and a locked-down Britain battled Covid-19. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. The disease is “not the sort of thing the middle classes are supposed to get”, but, after Johnson contracts it, the Conservatives stop downplaying it because “it’s no longer a disease for losers. We round up the reviews for David Hare’s new monologue performed by Ralph Fiennes at the Bridge Theatre. London, SE1 2SG London, SE1 2SG The monologue has the urgency and passion of recently lived experience but also echoes of the 10 o’clock news at times, with familiar summaries of information and arguments.”, The Telegraph: **** “Whether you agree with his diagnosis or not, the piece grips in its light-touch incisiveness. A repertoire of twelve one-person plays during September and October, using the Bridge’s flexible auditorium to provide 250 socially distanced seats. These cookies do not store any personal information. Get directions, The Bridge Theatre is operated by London Theatre Company Productions Limited(registered in England and Wales, Company number 1037977, registered office 7 Savoy Court, London, WC2R 0EX), We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website. I have survivor’s rage,” says Fiennes, and this play is a spirited expression of that righteous anger. And when you have decided, our great ticket deals will help save you money too. Hare’s illness brings terrors but it is also transformative. Hare has never been one for subtlety, but this kind of grand, clunking statement occurs too frequently for one to take the righteous undercurrent seriously. 3 Potters Fields Park If the season is delayed, automatic refunds will be given for cancelled performances. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Reviewsgate.com: **** “If serious theatre had to re-open with something this is as memorable a piece as could be, one people will look back at in years to come.” Beat the Devil continues to play at the Bridge Theatre until the 31st October. Beat the Devil marks the return of live indoor theatre in the starriest of ways: a “Covid monologue” written by David Hare and performed by Ralph Fiennes. David Hare gets in first with his coronavirus monologue Beat The Devil at the Bridge Theatre, evocatively performed by Ralph Fiennes 'I don’t have survivor’s guilt. The Guardian: *** “There are dates, statistics and medical science, all powerfully delivered by Fiennes, who magically animates the stage, though he barely moves on it. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mix with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue – performed at The Bridge by Ralph Fiennes – of furious urgency and power. By continuing to use our website without changing your cookie settings, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with our updated. If the season is delayed, automatic refunds will be given for cancelled performances. Some trenchant points are made on class and race. Beat the Devil continues to play at the Bridge Theatre until the 31st October. Beat The Devil. It’s a disease for men, particularly blond, white men.”, The personal tale is given comic treatment, too – his wife, Nicole, doesn’t understand social distancing when she climbs on top of him in bed to keep him warm – but is more often delivered in short, pungent lines. You have entered an incorrect email address! The monologue has the urgency and passion of recently lived experience but also echoes of the 10 o’clock news at times, with familiar summaries of information and arguments. Images have been released as Ralph Fiennes makes his Bridge Theatre debut performing David Hare’s monologue Beat the Devil, a new play written as a response to the author’s experience of contracting coronavirus.. Nicholas Hytner directs with designs by Bunny Christie, lighting by Jon Clark, sound by Gareth Fry and music by George Fenton. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. The problem, however, is that the text of Beat the Devil is decidedly half-baked, despite aspiring towards the type of biting polemic for which Hare is famous. • Beat the Devil is in repertoire in a season of 12 monologue plays at the Bridge theatre, London, until 31 October. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. 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