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Post by suzeeq on Oct 31, 2013 16:49:40 GMT -5
I always say a successful play or movie has to do with tight writing and great chemistry. Seems to be the case here. So happy for Rupert.  — Review on MOJO facebook. Darren Stuart Brown @darrensbrown 1h Sitting about 20ft from Rupert Grint on stage. He's surprisingly un-Ron Weasley and very good #mojo Kieztinchen @kristinchen1989 1h Rupert Grint is f***ing brilliant in Mojo New rehearsal picture  |
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Post by ♥ ~Hunter~ ♥ on Nov 1, 2013 10:16:05 GMT -5
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Post by suzeeq on Nov 1, 2013 18:34:12 GMT -5
Ah, finally get to see him in character. Love the suit.
Sandy Pritchard-Gord @sandypeegee 1h
@mojotheplay Well one Old Hogwartian can really act. Gold star for Mr. Grint.
Caitlin Plimmer @caitlinplimsole 17m
RUPERT GRINT THANKED ME FOR COMING
Kieran Chalker @gartonjonessw1 2m
Is this one of the best cast lists in the West End right now? @mojotheplay @haroldpintert. You have to see this play
Josh Williams @josh_Williams27 7m
Go see @mojotheplay now.
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Post by suzeeq on Nov 2, 2013 5:36:57 GMT -5
People lining up for MOJO, some since 830am. The New Current @thenewcurrent 2h More from the frontline #mojotheplay #London it is really looking like a good day!  |
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Post by suzeeq on Nov 2, 2013 10:13:51 GMT -5
Looks like family saw the play last night. Samantha Grint @ghostofsamantha 9m Saw mojo last night for the first time ever! it is probably the most amazing play i have ever seen! so proud of my brother! also VOTE to Nominate: awards.whatsonstage.com/awards/nominationsHayley :] @ohmydaysitshayz 4m Ben is f***ing incredible, Daniel Mays is hilarious and you wouldn't think Rupert Grint was in his stage debut! #mojo |
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Post by ♥ ~Hunter~ ♥ on Nov 3, 2013 6:00:32 GMT -5
This will probably be for MOJO, he'll be on Alan Marr next sunday.
"10/11/2013
Andrew Marr is joined by guests including Sir Nick Houghton and Rupert Grint."
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Post by suzeeq on Nov 4, 2013 5:18:42 GMT -5
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Post by suzeeq on Nov 11, 2013 15:12:57 GMT -5
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Post by suzeeq on Nov 13, 2013 17:34:20 GMT -5
First review from Press Night
The Times (4/5)
Four young wideboys are hanging out backstage at a Soho bar, talking in awe about the Buick parked outside. It’s summer 1958. Little do they know that the bar’s owner has just been slaughtered, his body stuffed into two bins outside. Welcome to Mojo, Jez Butterworth’s darkly funny first play, now revived with an all-star cast by Ian Rickson.
Mojo was first seen at the Royal Court in 1995, a remarkable debut from the man who went on to write Jerusalem. It takes a long while to blossom from being quirky exercise in style, packed with dynamite dialogue, into something with a real resonance. Good job, then, that it has a lot to offer along the way: the opening scene, for example, in which a rocker called Silver Johnny (Tom Rhys Harries) gets ready for a gig.
After a dance both posturing and primal (care of the choreographer, Quinny Sacks) he jumps into darkness and rock’n’roll turmoil. It’s electrifying.
After that, this terrific cast tears gleefully into five meaty roles. Rupert Grint (Ron from the Harry Potter films) makes an assured stage debut as Sweets, a pill-popping, pill-dealing kid with a hollow confidence. His opening dialogue with Daniel Mays’s garrulous, sweaty Potts is played out at a beguilingly brisk comic pitch.
If style appears to be the substance here, that’s because these lads are all talk, all aspiration. Even when Brendan Coyle (Bates from Downton Abbey) arrives as Mickey, the stalwart lieutenant of the slaughtered bar-owner Ezra, the boys’ inventive gabbiness keeps Mojo both distinctive and disposable. Ultz’s design, complete with curved wooden bar and two-storey spiral stairs, is a delight. Will this ever be more than platinum-grade pastiche, though?
Oh yes. And Ben Whishaw (Q from Skyfall) as Ezra’s son, Baby, is the heart of it. He is sinewy, unnervingly still, angry, unpredictable. Cool to the point of crazy. He reacts to his father’s death with nagging chat about how Colin Morgan’s cadaverous Skinny has nicked his fashion sense. You dread what is really inside him.
Whishaw handles Baby’s dry wit — “There’s nothing like someone cutting your dad in two to clear your mind” — without resorting to off-the-peg psycho glibness. By the end, he is crying one second, bursting into song the next. It’s a performance far outside of his usual range, one that reminds us just how versatile an actor he is. When it all turns from talk to proper conflict, proper danger, in the final half-hour, Mojo takes on a memorable sense of consequence, a vivid sense of damage. Something stylish becomes substantial. These wannabe bad boys are living the dream at last, and wishing that they could wake up from it.
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Post by ♥ ~Hunter~ ♥ on Nov 13, 2013 18:08:05 GMT -5
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