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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 27, 2017 10:52:01 GMT
Oh I read that and thought it meant sort of artistically professionally rather than as an audience member, I've done both and seen great and not so great at both, it's just the Globe is much more accessible for me and has cheaper options. Will look forward to your views regarding Much Ado lynette So,did it mean actors and directors have to choose? Sorry if i misinterpreted the comment. Still daft. 😂 Sorry, my fault for not being clear. She was talking about directors and theatre-makers, not audience (and I think not so much actors).
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 26, 2017 13:30:00 GMT
I hope so. I attended a QA with Lucy Bailey some years ago where she talked about there being a division in British classical theatre between "Globe people" and "RSC people" and implied you had to pin your colours firmly to one mast or the other, and never shall the twain meet. I hope that is not the case. Doesn't seem to be for actors, at any rate.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 26, 2017 12:03:51 GMT
Tons of free tickets on the usual suspects. Feels like every other performance since previews has had comps available. I can't remember the last time I saw a play papered so heavily.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 26, 2017 11:56:17 GMT
Oh, I liked that subplot a lot; powerful (albeit overlooked from the sheer number of different plots). I thought the "implausible" plot point would be {Spoiler - click to view} a teenage hacker single-handledly bringing down CERN/LHC and his aunt who can barely use email taking the fall for it, but everyone writing it off as an unexplained accident anyway, because people always just shrug and go "eh complicated s**t always goes wrong" when their globally significant €billion project crashes. And a boy criminally sabotaging his mum's work and entering into a conspiracy of silence with his aunt about it isn't a massive secret that's inevitably going to explode in their family at some point down the line.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 24, 2017 22:08:28 GMT
I'll say one thing for online lotteries, they can be invaluable for people with disabilities who can't physically dayseat. Some theatres do disabled concessions which is great but not all.
I have a friend who always dayseats with a flask of Irish coffee, at least in winter. I am told Jack Daniels Fire is especially good for this.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 22, 2017 13:16:04 GMT
It does occur to me that no one ever uses a mediocre or flat out terrible play from a male playwright (of which there are many) as representing "male playwrights" (or arguments pro/con) as a species.
Otoh the chap sitting next to me grabbed my arm in the interval, so desperate was he to share his almost evangelical love for "the best first half he's ever seen" so horses for courses and all that.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 22, 2017 13:06:49 GMT
That stupid tinsel confetti stuff (I don't know what it's called, you know what I mean) raining onto either the stage or the audience.
Flooding the stage seems to be increasingly popular.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 21, 2017 20:36:16 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 20, 2017 23:16:52 GMT
Sarah MacRae (Hero in the Tennant and Tate Much Ado) and Carolyn Pickles (Broadchurch) at Mosquitoes last night.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 20, 2017 15:01:36 GMT
It irrationally annoys me when people hand over the entire ticket bundle with the receipt and all the rest, rather than detaching them and just handing over the ticket.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 20, 2017 11:10:25 GMT
I got jabbed in the back too! The layout is so incredibly poor it seems almost designed for back-jabbing. Who on earth thought it appropriate to design an auditorium so the audience's feet rest on the backs of the chairs in front?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 20, 2017 11:04:35 GMT
Stanley Tucci is a neighbour of mine. I see him at the local farmers market quite often. The way he handles bok choy. PHEW!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 19, 2017 23:27:18 GMT
I liked it very much and the 3 hours flew by, but the plot was a bit all over the place. What in any other play would be the entire play, here is one scene. Why over egg the pudding by shoving in half a dozen subplots that are barely touched upon? {Spoiler - click to view} namely the teen sexting/revenge porn plot, and the aunt in jail because she's taken the fall for him stuff. Jokes felt a bit 90s sitcom. They worked because Colman is so fabulously talented, not sure if a different actress would have gotten so many laughs. Unless it's supposed to be part of the character that she cracks 90s sitcom-style jokes? Not sure if we needed the science lecture but crikey isn't Paul Hilton's David-Tennant-on-acid routine good?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 18, 2017 10:51:01 GMT
I was about to mention porntache Colin Baker.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 15:35:44 GMT
I've already seen six "Never watching again" posts on GB but I think this is fantastic news, and for the most part it seems to be going down an absolute storm. Well done Chibbers.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 14:55:12 GMT
Announcement minutes away!!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 13:09:41 GMT
God sorry! I really didn't notice. Going back to GallifreyBase, that forum is notoriously 'old fashioned.' The handful of posts calling sexism are in response to a lot of very impassioned "THE DOCTOR MUST ALWAYS HAVE A PENIS" arguing (and some of the anti-female Doctor posts have been extremely misogynistic, eg claiming that sexism does not exist, sexism in the entertainment industry couldn't possibly exist, it's all bloody feminists whinging, etc. etc. etc.). I've been on the forum for about 2 years now and although I've seen the occasional comment, it does seem to be an anomaly and is usually followed with universal condemnation. After the airing of Thin Ice a few months ago, there was a thread where several hundred people were talking about whether or not it was acceptable to punch a racist person, and if anything the pro-social justice group had such a strong hold on the conversation that any suggestion that it's wrong to beat the sh*t out of a nasty person was treated as intense racism. I'm a very frequent poster there, have been for more than a decade, and that has not been my experience. Perhaps you have been fortunate about what parts of the forum you visit, but if you spend a lot of time there, the amount of misogyny and rage at anything "feminist" or "PC" is terrifying. Yes, there are a handful of posters willing to speak up against those comments, but the sheer amount of them is overwhelming sometimes. The 13th Doctor threads have been deleted and closed at least twice because of them, that wouldn't happen because if it was just the odd anomalous comment. Did you read the whole "sexism couldn't possibly exist in the entertainment industry" bunfight from a few days ago?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 12:17:13 GMT
Not to be controversial but I honestly don't think Rice's directorial style is especially radical, even by Globe standards. And I still believe she was fired for financial reasons (the whole lights/education dept budget kerfuffle) rather than due to programming or style.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 12:06:50 GMT
Not sure what that tweeter is on about, still loads of tweets containing swearing on Baynton's Twitter. Um I'm no detective-of- Moffat-fame but I think 'that tweeter' 's identity is fairly clear God sorry! I really didn't notice. Going back to GallifreyBase, that forum is notoriously 'old fashioned.' The handful of posts calling sexism are in response to a lot of very impassioned "THE DOCTOR MUST ALWAYS HAVE A PENIS" arguing (and some of the anti-female Doctor posts have been extremely misogynistic, eg claiming that sexism does not exist, sexism in the entertainment industry couldn't possibly exist, it's all bloody feminists whinging, etc. etc. etc.).
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 15, 2017 15:44:21 GMT
Matthew Baynton's twitter has had all tweets featuring swearing deleted since last night Not sure what that tweeter is on about, still loads of tweets containing swearing on Baynton's Twitter.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 13, 2017 10:14:46 GMT
As if I needed another reason not to visit the Old Vic Yes , sadly I fear it will be quite a while until I visit the Old Vic again.... At least we've got that Ayckbourn six-hour dystopian sci-fi to look forward to.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 13, 2017 0:28:07 GMT
I'm quite conflicted. There was an inherent issue at the heart of the play and I couldn't decide how to feel about it. Franzmann is evidently a rare talent and she's so aware of and so good at sensitive racial politics. My initial response was to find it problematic but knowing what I know of the writer I'm not sure if I'm interpreting it correctly. It's similar to Yerma, but what saved Yerma was the narrowness of its forcus. It was solely about a woman and her mental disintegration due to not having a baby and didn't try to be about a larger political issue. Bodies was promoted as being a play about surrogacy and the racial politics of wealthy white women buying the bodies and bodily services of impoverished women from developing countries. Granted there are powerful moments about those aspects. But {Spoiler - click to view}But the audience basically never sees the surrogate apart from in the fantasies and hallucinations of the woman receiving the baby (Clem), nor do we really learn what happens to the surrogate. As the play progresses it becomes more and more about Clem and her mental state till nothing else exists.
Franzmann was quoted as saying it was a play about what happens when your body betrays you. You could remove all the Indian surrogacy stuff completely and be left with a fantastic piece about the relationship between an infertile woman and her imaginary 'perfect' daughter.
I kept going back and forth trying to decide whether: a) The play is about a woman who has a mental breakdown because she can't birth a baby, and the surrogate stuff is just window dressing. b) The play is about Indian surrogacy but shown through the perspective of a wealthy white woman for a specific reason. c) The play is about both the trauma of infertility and miscarriage, and the commodification and exploitation of WOC bodies, and the two make uneasy bedfellows.
Whatever the intention, I don't need to see another film/play/TV show where an exploited minority acts a plot device to tell the story of a privileged white character's suffering and personal growth. I found Clem quite unsympathetic, which makes her interesting as a character, but when she hallucinates that the surrogate has cut her feet running away (from the apparently Pomona-lite gestation chamber) because her own children are alone, it's hard to take that as anything more than Clem's own white guilt and infertility-inspired mental distress. Maybe the surrogate does suffer as badly as she imagines? Who knows? It's just odd to have a play about Indian surrogacy without showing the point of view of an Indian surrogate.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 12, 2017 23:45:05 GMT
Having just seen Bent the term 'hat trick' in general now makes me feel queasy.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 12, 2017 9:19:15 GMT
Thanks. I love that period of history so I guess I'll pick up a free ticket and take my chances on seating.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 11, 2017 11:52:30 GMT
Anyone seen this? I have heard no buzz about it at all, and they're papering like mad.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 11, 2017 10:42:10 GMT
I can't remember exactly but something like an hour 40 straight through.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 10, 2017 22:10:31 GMT
Brian Ferguson is out (no word on how long) so another actor stepped in script in hand.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 10, 2017 22:08:08 GMT
There's a new production of Parade coming up in September. Some sort of site specific thing iirc. Off topic, but sounds interesting could you give more info www.vivodarte.co.uk/newwhatson.htm
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 9, 2017 17:05:27 GMT
Exciting to hear Sherman is in talks for a new production of Bent in London next year.
(And apologies for lowering the tone, but the silver fox who chaired the post-show should perhaps invest in underwear next time he's on stage, as I'm pretty sure the first few rows know his religion now.)
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 9, 2017 17:01:23 GMT
There's a new production of Parade coming up in September. Some sort of site specific thing iirc.
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