I managed to get some tickets to the West End transfer of Jumpers a week or so ago. I’d never seen this play before – originally produced in the early 70s.
Simon Russell Beale is outstanding however as the poor confused philosopher married to his philandering wife (Essie Davis was “indisposed” for the performance I saw).
Overall, performances aside I was a little disappointed. Maybe I was expecting too much, but I felt it could have been a little tighter. Yes of course Stoppard makes you work for your pleasure, and that’s something to revel in, but some things didn’t quite hang together. Where it is funny, it’s very funny though.
Worth seeing.