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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 24, 2018 13:25:41 GMT
well I’m waiting to go into John, which I had a ticket for a fortnight ago, but had to blow out, because of the seasonal fever, lucky a ticket popped up, Or I would ha e missed it. So got me thinking plays that need to come back?
Could be because you missed for various reasons, or it was popular and sold out you couldn’t get a ticket., or for no other reason you like to see it again. So me thinking.
Hangman
The River
The Flick
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 13:37:32 GMT
There are lots of things I would really love to see again, like The Nap, or the RSC Loves Labours Lost/Won (but only with Michelle Terry).
What I'd really really love to see again though is Ghetto, which I saw at the National in the 80s and have never forgotten. It was just wonderful. Alex Jennings and Maria Friedman especially, but oh what a production!
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 24, 2018 14:18:49 GMT
One of mine is the Tom Stoppard play "Night and Day" from the late 70s, it had a long run in the WE and went to Broadway. It has a great part for an actress played at the time by Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith but has just disappeared!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 24, 2018 14:24:22 GMT
One of mine is the Tom Stoppard play "Night and Day" from the late 70s, it had a long run in the WE and went to Broadway. It has a great part for an actress played at the time by Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith but has just disappeared! I'm really amazed "The invention of Love" has never been revived, it's high time |
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Post by Mark on Feb 24, 2018 14:43:38 GMT
The Flick (because I didn't see it)
Clybourne Park
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Post by zak97 on Feb 24, 2018 14:50:34 GMT
Plays because I enjoyed them
Hangmen
Nell Gwynn (Apollo cast)
One I want to see in the flesh
Skylight (saw via NT live)
One I would like to have seen
My Night with Reg (Apollo/Donmar)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 15:15:45 GMT
People,Places and things,Hangmen ,Mr Burns - All these I missed when they were on and wish I had seen them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 15:51:05 GMT
The Normal Heart is pretty much the top of my list. I'm also putting in my once a decade request for another decent production of Bent (I know others have been about since but I've missed them).
A slightly weird one but I'd like to revisit 'What the Night is for' by Michael Weller. Simply because it was the first play I ever saw, and I'd like to revisit.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 24, 2018 15:54:04 GMT
I'm still hoping Hangmen and The Children will return after their stints in the US (I had a ticket for the latter but couldn't make it to London that day, argh). Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica is being adapted for TV so who knows, maybe it'll get another run on the back of that.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 24, 2018 16:01:56 GMT
The Invention of Love is a curious piece. Only having one female character does not help it.
It is almost too clever and packed with literary references - which considering it is a Stoppard is inevitable. But it is very, very Stoppard.
It has some good moments like the crossing of the Styx. But at lot of fairly turgid stuff as well.
I think it needs a revising trim and a very strong team to make it revival worthy.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 24, 2018 16:03:21 GMT
The Normal Heart is pretty much the top of my list. I'm also putting in my once a decade request for another decent production of Bent (I know others have been about since but I've missed them). A slightly weird one but I'd like to revisit 'What the Night is for' by Michael Weller. Simply because it was the first play I ever saw, and I'd like to revisit. I was expecting The Normal Heart to reappear after the TV adaptation. But we are still waiting. |
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Post by Rory on Feb 24, 2018 16:34:10 GMT
I am very sorry to have missed My Night with Reg (Donmar/Apollo) and Posh both times (first Royal Court, then Duke of York's).
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 24, 2018 16:49:13 GMT
I guess I am lucky in having seen the original and revival productions of Reg. And I have directed it.
It was also adapted for TV but that is challenging to track down these days
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 16:54:40 GMT
I guess I am lucky in having seen the original and revival productions of Reg. And I have directed it. It was also adapted for TV but that is challenging to track down these days Indeed! I found a VHS copy at Nottingham Pride about a decade ago. Sadly even that went missing in a clear out/move. And haven't been able to find one since. I watched the American production in the NY archives and that was a very strange experience- watching jokes fall flat that were very British references, and things that I don't find that funny getting huge laughs. |
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 24, 2018 16:56:05 GMT
One of mine is the Tom Stoppard play "Night and Day" from the late 70s, it had a long run in the WE and went to Broadway. It has a great part for an actress played at the time by Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith but has just disappeared! I'm really amazed "The invention of Love" has never been revived, it's high time Snap! |
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Post by Rory on Feb 24, 2018 17:54:49 GMT
I guess I am lucky in having seen the original and revival productions of Reg. And I have directed it. It was also adapted for TV but that is challenging to track down these days I remember watching the original cast on BBC2 when it was first shown. |
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 24, 2018 18:11:17 GMT
Back to Stoppard, its 15 years since the NT last revived Jumpers with SRB. Somehow i missed it, time for it again?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 18:18:21 GMT
I've never seen Rattigan's Separate Tables and would love to see that.
It's about time they resurrected some old Mike Leigh stuff such as Goose Pimples, Smelling a Rat and It's a Great Big Shame.
I never tire of Martin McDonagh and would love to see The Leenane Trilogy back. And while we're talking Mr McDonagh, could we please have a production of A Behanding in Spokane over here?
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Post by crabtree on Feb 24, 2018 19:18:22 GMT
Actually I would like to revisit Quartet in a darker, more perceptive production that it received, and with a more imaginative and cathartic ending. It touches on so many subjects, and the film was so watered down, and I don't feel I've seen the play as it should be. Likewise with Glorious.
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 24, 2018 22:25:06 GMT
The Normal Heart is pretty much the top of my list. I'm also putting in my once a decade request for another decent production of Bent (I know others have been about since but I've missed them). A slightly weird one but I'd like to revisit 'What the Night is for' by Michael Weller. Simply because it was the first play I ever saw, and I'd like to revisit. Oh forgot about The Normal Heart, saw a tape recording of it in the Lincoln Centre archive, even on tape I had such a visceral reaction to it, but would love to see it in the flesh, as this is where theatre deliever. Surprised this hasn’t been picked up by the subsidised theatre, only can think the reason it hasn’t came back is because there is no chance of a Broadway transfer this soon. Let me run this by the board - I have no issue of a production coming back as it was, when it was originally done, I appreciate casting may be difficult. If the returning production was well received, thinking along the lines of Jerusalem, Hangman, The Flick and The River - not everything needs to be revived (where substantial changes are made). Wondering what you think? |
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Post by bordeaux on Feb 25, 2018 0:12:56 GMT
I second Stoppard's Night and Day. I'd also love to see Hare and Brenton's Pravda and Churchill's Serious Money, which have not had major revivals I'm aware of since they premiered in the mid-to-late 80s, just before I started going to the theatre. Richard Bean's The Big Fellah about the IRA got rave reviews on a tour a few years back but didn't come anywhere near where I live: sounds dark and very funny. More recently, Cypress Avenue with Stephen Rea didn't have a long enough run in my view, or rather a run long enough for me to get to it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 0:19:25 GMT
Hangmen is the top of my list also. So jealous to see it extending in NYC at the moment.
Also I regret not seeing Peter and Alice by John Logan when it was done by the Michael Grandage Company, it looked and sounded fantastic. It may have been a revival, but I'm gutted I missed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at The Old Vic last year.
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Post by Spectator on Feb 25, 2018 0:41:18 GMT
The Normal Heart is pretty much the top of my list. I'm also putting in my once a decade request for another decent production of Bent (I know others have been about since but I've missed them). A slightly weird one but I'd like to revisit 'What the Night is for' by Michael Weller. Simply because it was the first play I ever saw, and I'd like to revisit. Oh forgot about The Normal Heart, saw a tape recording of it in the Lincoln Centre archive, even on tape I had such a visceral reaction to it, but would love to see it in the flesh, as this is where theatre deliever. Surprised this hasn’t been picked up by the subsidised theatre, only can think the reason it hasn’t came back is because there is no chance of a Broadway transfer this soon. Let me run this by the board - I have no issue of a production coming back as it was, when it was originally done, I appreciate casting may be difficult. If the returning production was well received, thinking along the lines of Jerusalem, Hangman, The Flick and The River - not everything needs to be revived (where substantial changes are made). Wondering what you think? Slightly off-topic, but strict are the Lincoln Centre’s academic research restrictions? It’s a pretty amazing archive, but the conditions of use always sound quite narrow. |
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Post by romeo94 on Feb 25, 2018 0:44:31 GMT
People, Places and Things
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 25, 2018 2:29:58 GMT
People, Places and Things That would seem a bit soon. It has had the original NT run, the West End transfer and a reasonably wide ranging tour. Before it transferred to NYC. I think that has had a fair amount of exposure for a few years. It is tricky to balance between things that people happened to miss first time round against things that haven't been done for a good few years. Separate Tables is the one Rattigan that seemed to get ignored during the recent anniversary flurry of activity. I first saw it in a TV production and have long wanted to direct it. |
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Post by Jon on Feb 25, 2018 2:47:33 GMT
Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman is overdue for a revival, I second Stoppard's The Invention of Love and Night and Day although I'd love to also see The Real Inspector Hound, Rock n Roll or On The Razzle revived as well and having seen a lot of the American classics in the last couple of years, I'd love to see O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra and The Iceman Cometh and also The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams.
Did anyone ever see Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike? I saw her last play Linda at the Royal Court and enjoyed it and I would like to see get a revival.
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Post by Stephen on Feb 25, 2018 2:57:44 GMT
I thought that My Night With Reg was excellent and would love to see it again. I saw it after the transfer to the Apollo so would love to see it in an intimate setting!
Others...
The History Boys
The Normal Heart
The Pillowman
The Weir
Also having seen only The Ferryman I would love to see Jez Butterworths other plays.
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Post by Jon on Feb 25, 2018 3:11:46 GMT
I wonder if Martin McDonagh will ever let The Banshees of Inisheer be produced? It's the final part of the Aran Islands trilogy which he's written but never published or produced.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 25, 2018 4:21:24 GMT
Did anyone ever see Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike? I saw her last play Linda at the Royal Court and enjoyed it and I would like to see get a revival. Yes, and I didn't think much of it but also saw Linda, which imo was a much better, bigger and stronger work. |
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Post by caa on Feb 25, 2018 10:17:26 GMT
Play's I'd like to see again which I saw a few years ago are: Racing Demon, Too Clever by half, Fuenteovejuna, the Rover, Fair maid of the west and Absurd Person Singular.
I'd like to see the Effect again which really should have gone to the West End, another is The Seafarer a play/production which was a hit at the National but never transferred to the West End but did go to Broadway.
I don't recall seeing School for Scandal and having read about how Jim Dale's career changed after he appeared as Scapino, I am interested to see a production of it.
I was looking forward to seeing the Pillowman revival but not sure its happening?
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