2,347 posts
|
Post by zahidf on Nov 21, 2019 23:21:37 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 21, 2019 23:23:12 GMT
Takes me back to that Tom Lehrer song...
'He loved his mother' ....
|
|
|
|
Post by talkingheads on Nov 21, 2019 23:32:10 GMT
I do not care how much I pay for this one, I'm going. I've denied myself a few tickets recently so I can splurge a little cash. Any idea of onsale dates?
|
|
6,316 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Jon on Nov 21, 2019 23:59:46 GMT
I'm guessing Autumn 2020, would be a great show to reopen the Lyric after its refurbishment.
|
|
1,846 posts
|
Post by NeilVHughes on Nov 22, 2019 0:04:20 GMT
Agree, been a bit reticent in paying full price recently, happy to break the bank for this one.
|
|
3,070 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Rory on Nov 22, 2019 0:07:46 GMT
I'm guessing Autumn 2020, would be a great show to reopen the Lyric after its refurbishment. Yes, wouldn't it? I can also see it going to Wyndham's after Pi or Pinter / Duke of York's. Wherever it ends up, it sounds essential. |
|
3,075 posts
|
Post by david on Nov 22, 2019 0:43:32 GMT
I’ve got my fingers crossed for the refurbished Lyric theatre as Its on my list of WE theatres not yet visited. Great cast so will book wherever it will be playing.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2019 1:02:12 GMT
It's a Prime Suspect reunion! I love Mark Strong in anything.
|
|
2,706 posts
|
Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Nov 22, 2019 1:55:30 GMT
Saw it in Edinburgh with the Dutch cast, it’s excellent and, as you would expect with Icke, plays around with the original. Given the nature of the prophecy it really kept you thinking as to how it was all going to play out. Hans Kesting was Oedipus (and a magnetic performance from him, as usual).
|
|
196 posts
|
Post by rockinrobin on Nov 22, 2019 7:22:58 GMT
I would love to comment on this cast but I'm too busy breathing into a bag.
I'm going to be so poor next year...
|
|
|
|
Post by Jan on Nov 22, 2019 7:30:39 GMT
The only downside to this is it's presumably going into a rotten old West End flea-pit theatre rather than somewhere like NT/Barbican. What configuration of theatre did it play in originally in Amsterdam ?
|
|
851 posts
|
Post by bordeaux on Nov 22, 2019 11:48:00 GMT
Because he does brilliant, intense and original productions of both well-known and less familiar great plays. He gets excellent performances from actors and makes classic plays feel contemporary. The Almeida, I'm sure, would have loved to keep him given his track record. How often in your theatre-going lifetime has a Schnitzler play (admittedly a 'version') transferred to the West End? He is widely admired - and given prestigious directing jobs - throughout Europe.
|
|
115 posts
|
Post by alexandra on Nov 22, 2019 12:02:49 GMT
Hans Kesting and Marieke Heebink were so superb in this that I couldn't imagine who could possibly replace them. But this is great casting.
|
|
|
|
Post by partytentdown on Nov 22, 2019 13:43:27 GMT
Please can we fix the title of this thread? Giving me a migraine.
|
|
|
|
Post by floorshow on Nov 22, 2019 13:47:25 GMT
Mirren! Yes, please  |
|
115 posts
|
Post by alexandra on Nov 22, 2019 14:25:43 GMT
>> Hans Kesting and Marieke Heebink were so superb in this yes, two names sure to set the west end box office alight, not to mention Broadway (sorry, couldn't resist) that's showbiz, folks ! Well no, not least because they performed it in Dutch. Your point? |
|
2,706 posts
|
Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Nov 22, 2019 19:49:37 GMT
>> Hans Kesting and Marieke Heebink were so superb in this yes, two names sure to set the west end box office alight, not to mention Broadway (sorry, couldn't resist) that's showbiz, folks ! Well no, not least because they performed it in Dutch. Your point? If people haven’t seen actors of the high calibre of Kesting and Heebink they really are missing out, There’s a whole wonderful theatrical world out there that isn’t in the English language. |
|
|
|
Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Nov 22, 2019 20:32:38 GMT
Well no, not least because they performed it in Dutch. Your point? If people haven’t seen actors of the high calibre of Kesting and Heebink they really are missing out, There’s a whole wonderful theatrical world out there that isn’t in the English language. She was absolutely incredible in Medea earlier this year, one of the finest bits of acting I've seen on stage. |
|
851 posts
|
Post by bordeaux on Nov 25, 2019 14:07:10 GMT
The good news is that Robert Icke agrees with Peter Brook that the most depressing thing about theatre today is excessively high ticket prices. Let's hope he is able to convince the producers of this.
|
|
|
|
Post by ontheaisle19 on Jul 13, 2022 19:20:14 GMT
Sorry. Double post.
|
|
|
|
Post by ontheaisle19 on Jul 13, 2022 19:20:50 GMT
Mirren! Yes, please Any updates on whether this might still be a possibility? |
|
442 posts
|
Post by theatreliker on Aug 6, 2023 19:37:06 GMT
Is this still happening. There are rumours on Twitter (X) that Icke is doing Henry IV parts 1 and 2 in the West End next with Ian McKellen as Falstaff. Noel Coward theatre.
|
|
|
|
Post by c4ndyc4ne on Aug 6, 2023 20:06:13 GMT
Is this still happening. There are rumours on Twitter (X) that Icke is doing Henry IV parts 1 and 2 in the West End next with Ian McKellen as Falstaff. Noel Coward theatre. Mirren is out. Strong was still keen |
|
3,070 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Rory on Aug 6, 2023 20:15:10 GMT
I get the feeling that a lot of Sonia Friedman's focus is on Broadway these days. This seems to have gone ice cold unfortunately.
|
|
1,338 posts
|
Post by Dave B on Aug 6, 2023 20:18:38 GMT
Motive and the Cue currently set to end in Noel Coward on 23 March.
|
|
1,866 posts
|
Post by Marwood on Aug 6, 2023 22:22:29 GMT
Mark Strong is 60 today: are there any stage actresses that could play his mother and you could believe him having an urge to um, ‘do the do’?
|
|
|
|
Post by londonpostie on Aug 7, 2023 13:23:31 GMT
He doesn't look bad for it. A wig, a little night cream, a few Pilates classes and he'd get away with .. late-ish 40s?
|
|
|
|
Post by Jan on Aug 7, 2023 13:51:54 GMT
Is this still happening. There are rumours on Twitter (X) that Icke is doing Henry IV parts 1 and 2 in the West End next with Ian McKellen as Falstaff. Noel Coward theatre. According to Greg Doran in 2014 he offered Falstaff to McKellen when he was directing Henry IV but he turned it down. This left Doran totally stumped until someone (I think McKellen himself) said “But the perfect Falstaff is under your nose !” and only at that point did Doran consider offering it to Anthony Sher. Ha ha. If you believe that etc. Not sure that McKellen is right for that part - Justice Shallow maybe - but what is not in doubt is that he normally chooses the best director for his Shakespeares (his last Hamlet being an obvious exception). |
|
|
|
Post by nottobe on Aug 7, 2023 15:25:54 GMT
I also hope this is still happening as I really enjoyed the stream ITA did a few years ago. And also hope the Henry plays is true as that will be a must see.
I think I said in another thread that Charlotte Rampling could be a good choice as a replacement as she is only a year younger than Helen Mirren.
|
|
|
|
Post by londonpostie on Aug 7, 2023 15:50:48 GMT
Last year we had a Juliet 5 years older than a Lady Macbeth (Buckley and Ronan). At this point it's either Harriet Walter or Lily Allen.
|
|
