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Post by poster J on May 10, 2019 22:18:53 GMT
I was focused on Dame Maggie and not what was around her. Am I weird for looking around at the set a few times during a one woman show? I can't stare at one spot for 90 minutes, but maybe it's part of the cursed syndrome of the mobile phone generation. I hadn't read about the set before seeing the show, but I'd noticed a change by about 20 minutes probably. Then I thought it was quite fun. Presumably there were people who watched Maggie slide right past their heads. Imperceptibly slowly. Hopefully they noticed they'd started off facing one way and ended up facing the other! I knew from this board that it would happen but didn't notice it had until part way through. Even then I didn't see it actually move. I looked around at the set a bit but wasn't really paying attention to the floor!
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Post by sfsusan on May 10, 2019 22:30:18 GMT
I mean did anyone else not notice it? I noticed the 'exterior' lighting changing as the afternoon turned to evening, and noticed the interior lights dimming as well, but completely missed the movement of the set.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on May 11, 2019 0:55:37 GMT
While I did notice all these things I will say I never noticed them happening, I only noticed them after they had happened so they were obviously all subtle changes and designed to be as such so I don't think it's that unlikely people missed them.
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 11, 2019 7:58:14 GMT
I’m mystified how anyone can say this is deserving of “All the awards”. I found it a very hard thing to sit through- her every (strangely placed) pause made me feel like she’d forgotten her next line and as a result I never became engrossed. My main focus was watching the slowly shifting set.
She’s a marvel... she’s a legend and I adore her ..but this is not award worthy. I have full admiration for the huge risk she’s taking every night though going out there all on her own but let’s not all get carried away.
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Post by talkingheads on May 11, 2019 9:55:23 GMT
I’m mystified how anyone can say this is deserving of “All the awards”. I found it a very hard thing to sit through- her every (strangely placed) pause made me feel like she’d forgotten her next line and as a result I never became engrossed. My main focus was watching the slowly shifting set. She’s a marvel... she’s a legend and I adore her ..but this is not award worthy. I have full admiration for the huge risk she’s taking every night though going out there all on her own but let’s not all get carried away. I took the pauses as the fact that the character as an unreliable narrator in old age would have trouble recollecting things and would also get muddled in speech.
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Post by lynette on May 13, 2019 10:19:07 GMT
Actual person on BBC4 10 o’clock tonight in the interview they made off her when she was very old.
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Post by londonmzfitz on May 14, 2019 14:30:49 GMT
I hadn’t mentioned the stage creeping forward; pointed it out just as we were leaving, neither had noticed What?! She moves like 15 metres forward?! The set at the back blows slowly apart? They didn't even notice by the end?! I mean did anyone else not notice it? I have a smartwatch, I turn it off for every show. I left it in theatre mode once, and if I'm a bit bored I'll fiddle with my hands, and I brushed the watch once and it lit up. Never again. One had noticed the lighting changing, the shadows on the floor changing; both had registered the large black space at the front of the stage, but I held them back as everyone was leaving to point out that the "floor" was now near the front of stage.
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Post by talkingheads on Jan 9, 2021 11:51:34 GMT
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Post by lynette on Jan 9, 2021 15:53:02 GMT
This was one of the most moving, brilliant pieces of theatre i have ever seen. It was a privilege being in the theatre and I am pretty sure the whole audience felt the same, a real community of theatre. Looks like a movie version will be good and give us Maggie’s performance for posterity, but in the theatre it was amazing.
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