The Man of Mode

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Last night (as a treat after Tuesday Doom) to the National to see The Man of Mode with perfectlyvague and suicideally.

It was a wonderful stylised production, updated to the trendy fashion present, and worked really well. Sometimes there's nothing like a spot of romantic farce, pounding music and dancing to hit the spot. Sir Fopley Fopling, Medley and Mrs Loveit were all great, though there were also a few, shall we say, less good performances.

Not one to restore your faith in human nature, being populated by people generally being self absorbed and not very nice, though interesting that it applies as much today as hundreds of years ago.

A fun romp, I'm glad I went. Though did catch myself musing on a few Dorimant-esque characters from my past.....*

(If anyone wants to go I think it's still in rep til the end of this month, and you can get best seats available deals for a tenner on lastminute.com. Ours were pretty ace!)


* No names no packdrill. They were never 'serious' on my part either....

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'The Man Of Mode' is, in fact, featured on the author's Wiki, but it doesn't have its own page (thus my need to look up the character's name to understand your reference to same).