Video review: Mass, Donmar Warehouse

Video transcript: You know, when you’re watching a play, and the auditorium is silent. Nobody’s shuffling around, there’s no noise whatsoever, and you can just tell that everybody is utterly gripped. Well, that was what it was like watching Mass at the Donmar Warehouse for the entire hour and 45 minutes. This is an extraordinary play, a very powerful play, a gripping play. And it’s remarkable for a lot of reasons, not least that it’s a very static play in that for a large portion of it, you have two couples played by Adeel Akhtar, Lyndsey, Marshal, Monica Dolan and Paul Hilton, who are just sat at a table, talking, having a conversation. There’s none of that direction of getting them to move around and swap places, which can sometimes be really irritating and just get in the way. It focuses the attention purely on what they’re saying. They’re having a really difficult conversation. I’m not going to say any more about it. You probably get a sense of what it’s about from the marketing…