I just had to see David Walliams West End debut...I didn't care what the play was about. A few questions where/why/whats it about etc etc etc (the usual from D) however she soon started to take a more serious interest after nearly choking on the price of the tickets, LOL
We were more or less the youngest people there (well I was) I heard people chatting on about seeing it originally back in 1975 (yes, before I was born)
A few jokes went over our head since the punchline seemed to include some obscure long word (we obviously didn't understand the meaning of) as we were the only ones not laughing :-(
So apparently the play is about precisely what its title suggests, the sense of being caught in some mysterious limbo between life and death.
Harold Pinter himself admitted that No Man's Land is a "haunting weird play" that he "can never fully understand – Who can? – but it works on you"
So basically, Hirst a litterateur haunted by dreams and memories, is, as he tells Spooner, 'in the last lap of a race I had long forgotten to run'. But, while his servants (Foster & Briggs) conspire to lead Hirst to oblivion, Spooner attempts a chivalric rescue-act, dragging him towards the light of the living. The assumption is that his bid fails, as all four characters are finally marooned in a no-man's land 'which remains forever, icy and silent'."
Many critics are still asking: "Yes, but what does it all mean?" and after three decades many feel that they don't fully understands it ... GOOD so we wasn't the only ones then! I thought I had missed something, or just didn't fully 'get it' (so got straight on to wikipedia to suss things out) but seems that is the desired effect and exactly how you're suppose to feel :-)
Oh yeah and it goes without saying, I am pleased I have seen this play and my Mr Walliams was just grrrrrreat.
