We saw Misterman last week, it's a play just finishing it's run at the National Theatre, an Irish play, because literally that's all they seem to show. The main reason we went to see it was because Cillian Murphy was the main (and only) actor in it. He was the villain in Batman Begins, for those who may not know. I have been calling him sillian, because I don't know how to say freaky Irish names, but I've just found out it's killian. So apologies to everyone who I talked to about this and they had no idea who I was talking about.
Anyway he was pretty good in it, though definitely no Cate Blanchett, sorry Cillian, you have a bit more to go before you rival her. Both Cate's and Cillian's performances were similar in that the play was basically a vehicle to show off their acting skillz. Misterman was even more pared back, in that there were no other actors on stage throughout the entire performance, there were some voice recordings, but that was it. It's just a shame that there didn't seem to be that much meat to the play, I mean Gross und Klein was incredibly weird, but there were still themes in there that you could think about. Misterman not so much. You got to the end and you're left thinking, is that it? It seemed a waste of what was a fine performance.
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