I’d rather stumble on some good stuff in my own time, instead of running to keep up with the list of important, unmissable experiences. With DRWT there’s an element of Stop I can’t take any more “You have to see/do/think this”. It’s already the Oscar front runner, it’s Martin Scorsese, it’s Leonardo DiCaprio, “she” (the female lead) is “meant to be amazing”, it’s a great story, but in DRWT territory these are all reasons to not really want to see it. Here are some you might recognise: Don’t Really Want To… see Killers of the Flower Moon The Don’t Really Want Tos (but couldn’t admit that to anyone) are a dark secret we all share. And the “don’t really want to feeling”, if it does manage to nudge its way out of the box of shameful thoughts, must be suppressed the same way you would the desire to channel surf during David Attenborough.Īnd if truth be told, not really wanting to show up for the must-see play is just the tip of the iceberg. Tickets to The Thing!! What sophisticated adult person with a brain would not leap at the chance – is the way we’ve been trained to think over a lifetime.

How many times have we all dutifully trudged off to see The Hot Thing when, if truth be told, we’d rather have spent the money on a minibreak. Well you can’t deny he’s on to something. Instead he’s chosen to appear in a small venue in Bath, in A View From The Bridge, because he has the strong suspicion that people in London theatres “don’t really want to be there”.

The actor Dominic West has returned to the stage but not in the West End as you might expect.

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