Review: Some Woman, National Theatre

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: There’s a scene towards the end of Some Woman at the National Theatre, where I sat there thinking, “You’re going down this road, are you? You’re really going down this road.” It had been quite an interesting play up until that point, had some interesting ideas, but it just got a little bit silly, a little bit OTT. It’s the story of an ordinary woman, played by Anne Marie Duff, who has given up a potentially big career to raise a family, and is doing less interesting work. She’s divorced, and she’s very put upon, downtrodden; everybody takes her for granted a bit. And the premise of the play is that she finds her voice after this incident that happens at her local train station. That comes rather late in the proceedings, a little bit too late for my liking. And this silliness towards the end, it just got me thinking about all the other things that just didn’t quite add up and didn’t quite make sense. So it sort of ruined it a bit for me, really – acting aside, that…