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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 9:41:39 GMT
Michelle Terry and her real life partner Paul Ready will be playing the Macbeths in the Swanamaker!
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Post by zahidf on Sept 19, 2018 9:51:53 GMT
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2018 11:22:47 GMT
Michelle Terry and her real life partner Paul Ready will be playing the Macbeths in the Swanamaker! Disappointing she’s following the same path as Norris and Doran and handing work to her partner (I’m assuming he didn’t audition) - not many jobs where that would be remotely allowed (MP being another of course). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 11:26:36 GMT
Well, he's a skilled Shakespearean and Globe regular, and - crucially for your comparison - the play's being directed by Rob Hastie rather than Michelle Terry. It's far from the first time they've been in a play together (Love's Labour's Lost, London Assurance, In the Republic of Happiness, to name but three) and neither role is wildly out of either's wheelhouse, so it's possibly a little early to start the gloom train on this one.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 19, 2018 12:52:27 GMT
I have to agree with the good doctor on this one. The optics are not great when this sort of casting happens. Far better to keep your working and your family lives separate - it means you eliminate that source of criticism. The casting may have been utterly above board with rigorous auditions and so forth - but it just looks like they put together a project to work on together.
Also less impressed with the casting for Richard II - not because I think she will do a bad job. It is just that I don't like directors appearing in their own work like that. It is very hard (even with a co-director) to act and direct at the same time and to retain the critical eye necessary to assess the whole - when you are also right at the heart of the stage action.
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Post by learfan on Sept 19, 2018 12:57:20 GMT
Typically no news on the one production Edward II that i have booked for.
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2018 13:35:04 GMT
Michelle Terry and her real life partner Paul Ready will be playing the Macbeths in the Swanamaker! Are they gender-swapping it ? Terry playing Macbeth, might be interesting. I can't recall a female Macbeth, more often it's Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, King Lear. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2018 13:37:59 GMT
Well, he's a skilled Shakespearean and Globe regular, and - crucially for your comparison - the play's being directed by Rob Hastie rather than Michelle Terry. It's far from the first time they've been in a play together (Love's Labour's Lost, London Assurance, In the Republic of Happiness, to name but three) and neither role is wildly out of either's wheelhouse, so it's possibly a little early to start the gloom train on this one. Except she is AD and she appointed the director, he's a hired hand, I doubt he'd object to the casting. I'm not that bothered but I maybe expected that as an actor she'd be a bit different to the usual director as AD, a bit more democratic maybe. |
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Post by altamont on Sept 19, 2018 13:55:17 GMT
Michelle Terry and her real life partner Paul Ready will be playing the Macbeths in the Swanamaker! Are they gender-swapping it ? Terry playing Macbeth, might be interesting. I can't recall a female Macbeth, more often it's Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, King Lear. No, not gender swapping the lead roles. I agree though, it would be very interesting |
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2018 15:14:42 GMT
Bit surprised to see Sean Holmes appointed as an associate artistic director. First because it’s a step down for someone who was a full artistic director, and secondly because his recent Shakespeares have been exactly the sort of thing that got Emma Rice into trouble. Anyone heard who’s taking over from him at the Lyric Hammersmith ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 15:21:08 GMT
It's also probably helpful that Paul Ready is in one of the biggest and most talked about TV shows of the year.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Sept 19, 2018 16:14:44 GMT
It's also probably helpful that Paul Ready is in one of the biggest and most talked about TV shows of the year. He's everywhere at the moment. He was great in Motherland, showing his comic skills off, and I also just finished watching the excellent 'The Terror' about the failed expedition to find the North West Passage.
Appointing Sean Holmes isn't a surprise either, or at least getting a director with wider experience on board. Hopefully it will help to give more consideration to that area for the next season.
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Post by Snciole on Sept 19, 2018 16:54:51 GMT
If there chemistry is as bad as Rory and Anne-Marie's I will be hysterical with grief. They are both great actors and I think Terry has shown great restraint from casting Ready, maybe because he is in demand.
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Post by learfan on Sept 19, 2018 17:19:12 GMT
Bit surprised to see Sean Holmes appointed as an associate artistic director. First because it’s a step down for someone who was a full artistic director, and secondly because his recent Shakespeares have been exactly the sort of thing that got Emma Rice into trouble. Anyone heard who’s taking over from him at the Lyric Hammersmith ? Yep, i thought this an odd appointment. |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 19, 2018 17:35:22 GMT
I never believed that Rice's firing had anything to do with her vision or creative differences (or rather, only inasmuch as her vision created significant financial issues). So I doubt Holmes will get into trouble for enjoying more radical interpretations. It is a bit of a step down, though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 20:21:47 GMT
Anyone heard who’s taking over from him at the Lyric Hammersmith ? Rachel O'Riordan. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 21:34:28 GMT
Do any of you think it could work if one cast Macbeth female and Lady Macbeth male?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 7:25:52 GMT
Do any of you think it could work if one cast Macbeth female and Lady Macbeth male? Why not? I don't see why it couldn't work perfectly well. After that bin liner disaster at The Nash, anything is worth a shot. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 15:09:49 GMT
Do any of you think it could work if one cast Macbeth female and Lady Macbeth male? Why not? I don't see why it couldn't work perfectly well. After that bin liner disaster at The Nash, anything is worth a shot. I’d love to see a production that did this. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 20, 2018 15:27:57 GMT
I have seen a male Lady M - but it was in an all male production. And he was the best Lady M I have seen to date. But he did play it as a woman. So the gender of the character was maintained.
Making Lady M a man would alter the relationship between him and their dead child(ren)
"I have suckled a baby, and I know how sweet it is to love the baby at my breast. But even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall if I had sworn to do that the same way you have sworn to do this."
Not insurmountable - but it would require changing a very well-known section of the play just to fit in with a concept.
A same sex couple could also be interesting to explore.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 15:38:34 GMT
I have seen a male Lady M - but it was in an all male production. And he was the best Lady M I have seen to date. But he did play it as a woman. So the gender of the character was maintained. Making Lady M a man would alter the relationship between him and their dead child(ren) "I have suckled a baby, and I know how sweet it is to love the baby at my breast. But even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall if I had sworn to do that the same way you have sworn to do this." Not insurmountable - but it would require changing a very well-known section of the play just to fit in with a concept. A same sex couple could also be interesting to explore. I think that speech would be great if delivered by a man because the reference to suckling might be read as being metaphorical. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 20, 2018 15:57:27 GMT
We each approach texts in a different way - but I must admit I find it a struggle to see that as metaphorical.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 23, 2018 15:10:09 GMT
Haw many real couples have played the Macbeths? I can only think of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
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Post by Jan on Sept 23, 2018 17:15:34 GMT
Haw many real couples have played the Macbeths? I can only think of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. That’s the only one I know. Antony & Cleopatra is another that springs to mind where husband and wife have played the leads. The most powerful and unsettling husband and wife turn I have seen was Burton and Taylor in the film of “ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”. (Originally James Mason and Bette Davis were cast in that film, which would also have been good). |
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Post by lynette on Sept 23, 2018 18:28:18 GMT
Have you watched The Americans. Terrifying married couple in real life but now estranged I believe.
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 25, 2018 10:32:09 GMT
Just catching up on the recent announcements - agree Sean Holmes appointment is odd, although it is supposedly related to his experience running the long-term Secret Theatre ensemble at the Lyric.
The announcement also mentioned they are planning "a year-long cycle of History plays"
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Post by learfan on Sept 25, 2018 17:06:34 GMT
Just catching up on the recent announcements - agree Sean Holmes appointment is odd, although it is supposedly related to his experience running the long-term Secret Theatre ensemble at the Lyric. The announcement also mentioned they are planning "a year-long cycle of History plays" Yes, apparently R2 is first off so presumably we can expect both parts of Henry 4 next summer. Wonder who their Falstaff will be? |
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Post by learfan on Sept 25, 2018 17:08:13 GMT
Haw many real couples have played the Macbeths? I can only think of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. That’s the only one I know. Antony & Cleopatra is another that springs to mind where husband and wife have played the leads. The most powerful and unsettling husband and wife turn I have seen was Burton and Taylor in the film of “ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”. (Originally James Mason and Bette Davis were cast in that film, which would also have been good). Not sure if they were actually cast, just mentioned. But i agree they would have been good. |
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