The Height of the Storm
An excellent piece of drama where the audience's experience is more important than telling a story
The Height of the Storm
Pryce and Atkins are magnetic
The Guardian
The Height of the Storm
An excellent piece of drama where the audience's experience is more important than telling a story
Why see The Height of the Storm?
From the writer of the Father
Theatre greats Jonathan Pryce and Dame Eileen Atkins are joining each other on stage for the first time in celebrated playwright Florian Zeller's newest outing. In this intriguing drama, Pryce and Atkins play Andre and Madeleine, a loved-up couple awaiting a visit from their daughters. As mysterious objects, and persons, begin to arrive, things start to unravel and questions start to circulate around the family, including for Andre, who is beginning to feel he isn't really there at all...
Two legends for one!
The Height of the Storm sees these two icons of stage and screen treading the boards for the first time together.
Recognisable to audiences all over the globe for his film work (Brazil, the Pirates of the Caribbean series) Jonathan Price is most often found in the West End, where his oeuvre has included everything from Miss Saigon to The Merchant of Venice.
With three Oliviers (plus a BAFTA an Emmy for good measure) Dame Eileen Atkins is a national treasure, her unmistakable voice and twinkling eye an asset to any production. Her credits are too numerous to name, but most recently, she's been delighting as Queen Mary on The Crown.
Cast
Jonathan Pryce as Andrè
Eileen Atkins as Madeleine
Reviews
Our review
Captivating, challenging, emotional
French playwright Florian Zeller delivers another emotional - and cryptic - snapshot-of-life with The Height of the Storm. In much the same vein as The Father, the audience is thrust into the lived experience of the characters.
Wendy Fynn
Customer reviews
4 reviews, average rating: (4.0 Stars)
Nigel Stevenson
Absorbing
An absorbing, thought provoking and imaginative play, leaving the audience to reflect on the underlying themes (sometimes not always immediately apparent from the writing, intended I am sure) and impressed with the sensitive and professional acting. ... Read more
Paddy Briggs
Outstanding and challenging new play, brilliantly performed
Somebody has died. There are flowers. The bereaved daughters are rallying round offering
support to the surviving partner, their father. But then their mother appears from the
vegetable garden and it is she who needs the counselling and it is the father who they mourn.
Or maybe neither parent has really died and what we are watching is the struggle of people to
cope when the once intellectually powerful faculties begin to succumb to the ravages of
dementia? What is the reality and what are the imaginings? Is the question to be resolved and
does it matter if it is? The tension is maintained to the end in this astonishing, thoughtful
drama. We explore age, marriage, loyalty, gender, generational differences, the battle of the
sexes, the Pinteresque presence of unexpected visitors and much more in this extraordinary
play by Florian Zeller. The translation by Christopher Hampton is idiomatically excellent and
Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins are pitch perfect. ... Read more
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