Imperium I: Conspirator Tickets

Well acted and engaging. The play is well structured and considerate to the audience where needed. Enjoyable on many levels.

Fantastic production. My only issue was that the air conditioning in the Gielgud Theatre was so ferocious we had to move seats.

An absolutely brilliant production: adaptation, staging, acting were all exemplary, and it was a day (seeing both parts in succession) of excitement, interest and pathos like none other in my memory.

Very good play. It really brought the books to life. Breaking the play into three acts made it more watchable. It is 3.5 hours with two 15 minute intervals so does require commitment to stay with it, but they kept the performance so alive. The direct engagement with the audience was a delight, as was the nod to current politics.

An overblown, tedious & noisy history lesson.

The admin re purchasing was straight forward and easy to collect tickets at box office. Cast was excellent - every word could be heard clearly. It was good to have two intervals due to length of performance. Interval drinks ordering was efficient. Even the audience was relatively well behaved - no gadget lights or loud munching round me. Just the odd crack of a plastic water bottle and a distant tune. I was appalled at the amount of rubbish left behind in the aisles, though, including a glass wine bottle. When did theatre goers become so lazy and disrespectful of their environment?

Very good dramatization of excellent book.

Read the books and as very disappointed in the decision to play this with so much comedy. Cicero was an outstanding orator - but we had slapstick instead.

Imperium 1: Terrific even if history twiddled a bit

We enjoyed Imperium 1 greatly. The time flew by, helped by the breaking up of the play into three one hour acts. We will see Imperium 2 in a couple of weeks and are looking forward to it.

Terrific show, it reeled you into the story, so you just wanted more. The three hours shot by. I can't wait to see part 2.

A very absorbing story of Cicero’s strategies whilst Consul of Rome. Robert Harris’ books are very serious in covering the subject but the play tends to the Frankie Howard approach to Roman history. It is amusing but I am uncertain as to whether this is appropriate for the subject material.