‘Minority Report’ Review: Hi-Tech, Lo-Drama in Flat West End Sci-Fi
variety.comDavid Benedict When, at a dramatic peak, the lead character is running for her life and she’s teetering on a perilously tiny walkway on the outside of a very tall building, and terrified, certain thoughts shouldn’t be occurring to an audience.
Chief among them is, “But she’s only about ten feet from the floor.” Our heroine may be scarily disengaged from everything she thought she knew, but we need to be fully invested.
That we rarely are is the overwhelming problem with this strongly designed but tension-free adaptation of “Minority Report.” In this gender-switched stage version not of Steven Spielberg’s movie but Philip K.
Dick’s original short story, the crucial workings of the chilling, over-arching scenario are delivered by anti-heroine Julia Anderton (spiky Jodie McNee) in an opening lecture-demonstration.
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