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Post by martin1965 on Oct 29, 2016 16:48:33 GMT
Hope you love it as much as i did.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 29, 2016 16:47:25 GMT
Am going in two weeks, cant wait!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 29, 2016 16:46:18 GMT
And rather bad form to be slagging off another company's management decisions, one might suggest. And a rival, certainly as far as the Wanamaker Playhouse and Swan are comcerned!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 29, 2016 16:44:33 GMT
Has she been a long-time collaborator ? They hosted the Kneehigh "Cymbeline" - anything else - if he's so bothered then why doesn't he invite her to become an Associate Director at the RSC ? (not holding my breath on that one). I wondered about that too JB, far as i know the complete works Cymbeline is the only thing she has done and tjats ten years ago! Not sure why the SMT at Stratford felt compelled to say something.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 29, 2016 11:41:54 GMT
Indeed, go!!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 28, 2016 21:02:11 GMT
Just waiting for train home after seeing this. Wow! Both i and my mate loved it, faithful to the film. Clare Louise Connolly as Regan is astonishing. The effects are amazing, Apparently McKellen is the voice bit there is no programme credit. Its not often a stage effect gets its own round of applause but that happened tonight! Full house and lots of standing at the curtain. Reckon this could do well in West End, an extra scene or two to justify the interval and some cast tweaking. Recommended
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 28, 2016 20:54:24 GMT
Is it some attempt at humour to call a play "The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures" and then name one of its main characters "V"? This play sounds very good for those people who like this sort of thing but deadly nightshade for the rest of us. As usual i have no idea what you are talking about but i loved this. The long running time flew by. Highly recommended!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 27, 2016 16:32:33 GMT
I've mentioned here before that Rice is actually quite a conservative middle-class director whose successes like Brief Encounter, Rebecca, The Red Shoes, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg etc. appeal to a similarly conservative middle-aged demographic. She rather neatly makes this point herself by saying she'd rather listen to the Archers than watch Shakespeare. The Archers ? Seriously ? Anyone here listen to the Archers ? Her cultural references are hardly likely to be familiar to 14 year old in Nottingham. She is no doubt a good director, but not really innovative and actually a bit old fashioned when it comes to Shakespeare, we've been seeing that approach from the likes of Cheek by Jowl and Filter for decades. Agree totally JB!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 27, 2016 16:27:35 GMT
Talking of facebook, I enjoyed this exchange on the RSC's page ... Quite right too, its obviously nothing to do with RSC
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 27, 2016 16:25:38 GMT
I bet this gets good reviews too
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 27, 2016 16:24:36 GMT
Have to be honest i was so looking forward to the Union reopening and have been dissappointed by the programming up to now! I had seen the original Fix so gave that a miss. I saw the original Moby Dick at the Piccadilly and thought it a disaster. Hopefully 2017 will be better.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 26, 2016 18:07:14 GMT
Agree with Jan. It was ever thus. I am over 50 now and yet when i go to the RSC or the NT now i look around smd feel the youngest one there! I bought both my children to the theatre at an early age and they still go, indeed my son is now at Drama School. However i am extremely conscious that we are the exception,
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 26, 2016 15:20:26 GMT
Please try and see it through! Beginning to be disturbed by the rash of early leavers😕
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 26, 2016 15:18:27 GMT
Yeah man, T J Hooker, with the Shatmeister!!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 26, 2016 6:29:09 GMT
She was one of the first stars of the newly formed RSC in the 60s, she won two best actress oscars, she is in the best remembered sketch by our greatest comedy duo. A more than onsubstantial career. A four hour Lear, wow! Man up guys this is hardly news. As for leaving at the interval. I am going on 23/11 and am looking forward to it.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 20:40:54 GMT
Cant get excited by this! Saw the Chixester production at TRH few years back with Jamie Parker, it was ok. Plus Radcliffe is not a good actor im afraid
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 17:38:26 GMT
Let us hope that no one applies to become Artistic Director. An appointment by this Board would be career suicide, and the appointee would be ostracised by the rest of the profession. We need Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole to join everyone else, including the RSC, in condemning this Board. We need Lucy Bailey, director of Comus which starts previewing this week, to publicly attack the Board. This is the biggest theatre news story of my lifetime. It's outrageous. The RSC ? Why should their useless board get involved ? The RSC were entirely responsible for the Globe's success actually according to Greg Doran "When the RSC left London the felling of that great oak enabled smaller saplings to grow towards the light ..." I see Rylance has condemned the RSC recently and said he'll not work there again, for sure he'll be on board when yo4u march on the Globe. Well to be fair thats easy for him to say! He hasnt worled there since 1989 snd i seriously doubt he is on any list of alumni they want to bring back😉
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 17:34:14 GMT
Let us hope that no one applies to become Artistic Director. An appointment by this Board would be career suicide, and the appointee would be ostracised by the rest of the profession. We need Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole to join everyone else, including the RSC, in condemning this Board. We need Lucy Bailey, director of Comus which starts previewing this week, to publicly attack the Board. This is the biggest theatre news story of my lifetime. It's outrageous. Calm down dear!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 11:34:55 GMT
I'm shocked and saddened. I saw just the first half of one single Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre in the Rylance years and then two new plays and one Shakespeare in the Dromgoole period. But I've already been to Shakespeare's Globe three times in Emma Rice's Summer of Wonder (as well as seeing The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk at Bristol Old Vic, before it transferred to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse). And I've booked to see the first two Winter Noir shows in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse where I've never been before. So, shall really look forward to the rest of Emma's reign at the Globe, and then probably hardly ever, or never, go there again. Emma, we love you! And eagerly look forward to whatever you do next and wherever you do it. Oh well, each to their own
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 11:33:55 GMT
There is a particularly reactionary element within the Globe hierarchy, unable to see far past the original performance practice idea, it appears as though their small but loud grouping has won and Rice just doesn't need the Globe if it's going to be a continuous battle with them. Now, in one fell swoop they've made the job into a poisoned chalice (appropriately Shakespearean), a new person will have to satisfy the conservatives who think they've got their theatre back, the new audience who don't realise they've lost theirs and a press who, having been broadly supportive of Rice, will now expect much greater things from a successor as justification for the change. The press have been broadly UNsupportive. I admit to a bit of sympathy for ER but you really cant go on record shortly after being appointed and admit you dont really kbow the canon!! Am afraid she had to go. Imagine they will go for safe pair of hands now.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 10:36:42 GMT
My thoughts exactly Abby!!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 25, 2016 10:06:54 GMT
This is hardly shocking news, she was a frankly ridiculous appointment to begin with! Oddly enough next year's season looks interesting for the first time in a while.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 24, 2016 20:11:30 GMT
I saw Woman in Black years ago and tho it didnt exactly scare me,it is atmospheric and cleverly done. Im off to Exorcist in Birmingham Friday.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 24, 2016 18:50:54 GMT
I've heard Angels booking will open in January, *just* Angels rather than a selection of plays including Angels. We don't yet have any dates for Follies so I expect booking won't be until late spring at the earliest or summer. Been clear on NT site that tix for AIA will open in Jan. Follies wont go on sale till Spring i would think.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 24, 2016 11:58:13 GMT
Did someone higher up ask whatever happened to F. Murray Abraham? Well, he's appearing at the Ustinov at the back of the Theatre Royal Bath next spring in a new play by Daniel Kehlmann called The Mentor, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Laurence Boswell. I imagine they're hoping for Zeller-like success if they're casting a big name like Abraham. Amazing news! Saw him as Shylock in the RSC complete works almost ten years ago now. Will be booking for that😉
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 23, 2016 14:25:01 GMT
Just read the blog, sounds like a mentalist!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 22, 2016 21:49:38 GMT
One blogger tweeted at the interval that the first act had consisted of people shouting at each other & that she couldn't stand any more, so clearly it's arousing strong reactions. Not sure what she was watching!
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 22, 2016 19:35:43 GMT
Just wandered into Donmar yesterday afternoon and overheard BO guy saying only available tix were for 5 Nov, i piped up double checking if that was a sat and promptly nabbed front row for a tenner, booom! Now where did i put those heels😄
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 22, 2016 19:30:48 GMT
Edward Bennett and Michelle Terry worked so well together when this was in Stratford. I thought I heard that they know each other from Drama School, so it wouldn't be surprising Lisa Dillon isnt bad but she doesn't have the zeal that Terry always gives. Perhaps she'll get better but it felt like she was playing catch-up with Edward Bennett What other LLL productions were set in a pre-WW1 setting. I only know the David Tennant and Globe productions, and the Kenneth Branagh film. I thought this production made the play the perfect pre-WW1 play. The death of a political figure bringing shock to Europe felt apt to the change of tone in the play. And for an ending that is usually bitter-sweet, it became Love's Labour's Lost Never to be Found Again for me. It brought tears to my eyes Pre-WW-I is a good setting for LLL - normally (and I was expecting it here) the last thing you hear are the distant explosions from the Somme (which of course in reality could be heard from Southern England). Best production I have seen was the Trevor Nunn NT one where he explicitly had WW-I battle scenes at the beginning and end - he also turned it into even more of a musical comedy by having all four of the suitor's poems set as songs (it was cross-cast with the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes). From what I recall at least 2 of the other 3 RSC productions I have seen were set in the same period, maybe all 3 were(1984 Kenneth Branagh/Roger Rees, 1991 Simon Russell-Beale/Ralph Fiennes, 1994 Dan Massey). Only saw the 1990 Terry Hands production of those three and it had a victorian setting as i recall.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 22, 2016 19:28:27 GMT
warned you to see them in Chichester ! Front row seats for both + travel for < £50 in total. If I had the time to get all the way to Chichester, and could rely on there being a train service, I would, LOL. Maybe its me but i have travelled to Chichester from Birmingham and never had probs! Glad these productions are getting recognition😅
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