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Post by stefy69 on Sept 9, 2016 7:58:02 GMT
I'm now getting strange looks on the train for laughing out loud. Definitely need to see this! Oh I know Kathryn, am so glad I've booked for this at the Haymarket !
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 9, 2016 7:50:56 GMT
She's at the Union Chapel next April, One of my favorite venue's and will suit her down to the ground. Though I do wonder if they've told her not to bring any 'Altar' wine. www.seetickets.com/event/camille-o-sullivan/union-chapel/996052Have seen her many times and she doesn't disappoint. Taps into an older vibne where a singer could take anyone's material and make it their own. (PS Don't you just love giving people your money upto a year ahead before you can see the act! To get my wife and daughter Christmas Present ofHappy Potter tickets with both shows on on one day,I had to pay out November 2015 for tickets May 2017!!!) Couldn't agree more Mr Snow, Ms O'Sullivan is a star in every sense of the word.
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 9, 2016 7:33:02 GMT
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 8, 2016 6:55:54 GMT
I'm going to see this at the Haymarket when it opens as this opened in Bath on the 31st August just wondering if anyone here saw it there and has comments to make on it ? The internet, apart, from one brief comment is silent !
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 8, 2016 6:26:38 GMT
This will be one of my rare excursions to a musical.
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 8, 2016 6:25:42 GMT
I am sooo looking forward to watching the games as has been said earlier in this thread the Paralympics of 2012 was a real eye-opener and inspiration !
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 5, 2016 6:37:51 GMT
Maybe it IS the best way to see anything. With no expectations whatsover Well then you're never disappointed !
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 2, 2016 4:49:26 GMT
Saw this yesterday and loved it very much a star vehicle for KB but certainly none the worse for that. Booked to see it again in a couple of weeks.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 31, 2016 6:47:12 GMT
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 31, 2016 6:43:49 GMT
Off to see this tomorrow and so looking forward to it, loved the film and love KB...
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 30, 2016 15:45:40 GMT
Can't wait for Ruth Wilson in Hedda Gabler !
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 30, 2016 7:20:03 GMT
Oh so would I !
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 30, 2016 5:54:53 GMT
Oh I loved this sooo much, considering I hadn't heard of this show being on until last week a real discovery.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 28, 2016 7:18:37 GMT
So, if you think you're too sophisticated to be genuinely shocked at the theatre, think again. This production in the Southwark Playhouse's Little Theatre gives Zola's 19th century melodrama the full Grand Guignol treatment to quite stunning effect. The final fifteen or so minutes left me reeling - it's definitely not for the faint of heart. Yes, at two hours fifty minutes it's too long and too slow in the first act - they really need to pick up the pace in those domino party scenes - but the rewards are many including a deep investment in the characters, all wonderfully delineated by a cast of six young actors who are uniformly superb. One hesitates to pick out individual performances but the two leads, Lily Knight as the repressed Therese and Matthew Hopkinson as her hot-blooded lover, Laurent, are just sensationally good at riding the transformations they both undergo and endure as their characters descend into the pit of guilt and madness. One puzzling thing - there is no credit given for the adaptation being used. And it is a very good adaptation, in some ways quite different - and, frankly, better - than Zola's original novel. Therese herself, for instance, is much less the instigator Zola portrayed and much more a victim swept along by events. To me this is a more effective take. And there are many structural niceties, props planted in the beginning that pay off in the end, motifs cunningly scattered throughout. The violence of the piece has been ramped up and given an almost cinematic twenty-first century makeover. The result is a very fine play. One would love to know who wrote it. But, that aside, this is a real achievement for all concerned. There was a pretty full house in the small Southwark space and there was a boisterous standing ovation at the end. It only has one more week to run. Really pleased to read your review mallardo, am going this week and appetite whetted...
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 26, 2016 11:28:13 GMT
Oh wow thanks for the tip mikey ! hadn't heard about this at all. one of my favourite French films too.
I've been hoping the Keira Knightley Broadway version would transfer ( still there's always hope )
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 26, 2016 10:01:53 GMT
I'm kind of amazed at the reaction to this. I've always thought it was John Osborne's best play and the one production I've seen of it - at the Old Vic with Robert Lindsay - was excellent. Echo that sentiment mallard, also the Laurence Olivier film version is very very good too.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 24, 2016 8:03:05 GMT
Or taxidermist, perhaps - though I will keep to myself my suggestions re who or what needs stuffing... Now that made me smile !
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 24, 2016 6:57:22 GMT
If the Paralympics are half as exciting and engrossing as they were in London 2012 then I for one can't wait for them to start.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 23, 2016 5:48:50 GMT
Brilliant play and beautiful production, great work from the core 4. Recommended. That's really good to hear.
Can you remember the approx. running time at all ?
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 22, 2016 11:58:09 GMT
Something I am really looking forward to in a couple of months.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 22, 2016 10:38:54 GMT
All credit to Joe Joyce our 67th and final medal winner, an excellent attempt to win gold but just not quite enough...
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 21, 2016 11:58:42 GMT
Well I thought it was excellent a worthy addition to the WE.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 21, 2016 6:43:41 GMT
Wow 66 medals !!! and I was so pleased Bianca Walkden won her bronze medal match in the Taekwondo she looked so disappointed when she lost her semi final. Golden times.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 20, 2016 11:11:18 GMT
Oh my gosh how heartbreaking was Lutolo Mohammed's post silver medal interview in the Taekwondo, I was in floods of tears with him.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 20, 2016 6:12:28 GMT
Just like four years ago this Olympics has been so inspirimg and uplifting. ...and touching wood more to come over the next two days. Come on GB.
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 19, 2016 7:30:19 GMT
Jade Jones what a star !
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 18, 2016 6:23:20 GMT
How good were our girls in the Hockey semi final win over New Zealand ! Cool cool cool
another silver at least guaranteed
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 17, 2016 6:16:39 GMT
Fabulous fabulous night well done Team GB !!!
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 16, 2016 11:03:16 GMT
I can recall Shane Richie boasting in his autobiography that when he was in Grease at the Dominion, he was selling his comps to ticket touts and getting the profits. Hm, something to be really proud of no doubt !
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 16, 2016 10:50:50 GMT
Shame if that is true about Ross mind you I'm also still hoping An Enemy of the People may still transfer from Chichester too...
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