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Post by alnoor on Mar 16, 2017 10:34:13 GMT
Just returned 2 tickets for tomorrow evening ( 17/3/17) stalls row A
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Post by tal on Mar 17, 2017 14:31:59 GMT
I had to return my ticket, it is available on the website. It is for next Wednesday, March 22nd.
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Post by charliec on Mar 17, 2017 14:46:54 GMT
I had to return my ticket, it is available on the website. It is for next Wednesday, March 22nd. Ah thanks Tally! I think I just bought that ticket!
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Post by tal on Mar 17, 2017 15:28:05 GMT
I had to return my ticket, it is available on the website. It is for next Wednesday, March 22nd. Ah thanks Tally! I think I just bought that ticket! You're welcome. Enjoy!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 16:01:59 GMT
Overall I enjoyed this, though I'm not sure I'd agree it exactly flew by...
Horatio weak, Ophelia too modern (though thank God she didn't seem to wibble on as much as most Ophelias do towards the end), Laertes OK at best (gabbled text, and incoherent when shouting, at times). Liked Juliet Stevenson a lot and, while I take on board the grumbles about Wright's delivery, he's the only Claudius I've ever seen where I've thought, '****, I'd have jumped into bed with him too'.
Scott was marvellous. I knew he could do manic but I very much enjoyed his moments of introspection. Made me wish someone would offer him a truly quiet, pared-back role on stage so I could see what he did with it. Felt like there was a lot of honesty in his interactions with the audience and at times things seemed so simple he actually appeared to be a guy at an audition or just improvising in a studio, not playing one of the most challenging roles in Shakespeare! And I mean that most sincerely as a compliment. I liked that his Hamlet seemed so affectionate with his father, too - generally the ghost is played as someone absolutely everyone is terrified of.
I have to say, the weird ending didn't work for me at all, and actually sapped the emotional impact somewhat.
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Post by lou105 on Mar 19, 2017 18:22:31 GMT
Felt like there was a lot of honesty in his interactions with the audience and at times things seemed so simple he actually appeared to be a guy at an audition or just improvising in a studio, not playing one of the most challenging roles in Shakespeare! That was the discussion we had on the way home. There was no sense of "Here I am , giving my Hamlet". He was real and vulnerable and made you listen to him.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 19:11:43 GMT
Yes, so often Hamlet is played by middle-aged actors and therefore his moods can seem a bit petulant and self-indulgent, which puts up a barrier between actor and audience. Here I found Scott very vulnerable and believable. It would be interesting to see if that sense of successfully 'bringing the audience in to him' could be replicated in a larger space or if it's just down to the intimate size of the Almeida. My feeling is it wasn't entirely due to the physical space.
He and David Rintoul forged some lovely connections, too - in all of Rintoul's 'incarnations'. And I mustn't forget Peter Wight as Polonius - delightful. Loved his 'Et tu, Brute' dodgy knee!!
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Post by peggs on Mar 21, 2017 12:45:58 GMT
Managed to grab a ticket that just popped up, I'm not sure what the production will bring but trying to work out what it entails from all your posts has been most intriguing.
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Post by demelza on Mar 21, 2017 14:07:02 GMT
I saw the matinee on saturday with a friend and I'm still processing it. Did anyone else also catch the RSC production last summer? The two couldn't be more different in my eyes but I loved them both equally. The only thing I had seen Andrew Scott in previously was Pride, so I didn't really have all that much of an idea of what he was like but like many of you, I was completely drawn in by his portrayal. I loved how raw it was. And Juliet Stevenson! What an incredible talent (and wasn't that dress she wore in her first scenes stunning?) I thought that she made a really wonderful Gertrude. On a whole I thought that the rest of the cast were pretty great, although I found Claudius to be very one-note and boring, which is a shame. I really do hope that this transfers as I would love to get a second viewing of it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 17:53:29 GMT
How is the view from B6 in the circle? Any guidance hugely appreciated!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Mar 21, 2017 22:05:21 GMT
On a clear day you can see forever.
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 22, 2017 11:07:48 GMT
Sat in a similar seat. It's fine although the restricted view seats in the stalls are better. As tm says you miss the side of the stage - but anything that goes on there you can see reflected in the glass at the back of the stage.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:27:30 GMT
Those glass panels are incredibly useful, I basically watched an entire exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia in the reflection when the pair of them otherwise disappeared behind columns from my stalls restricted view seat!
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 26, 2017 17:16:45 GMT
I saw this last night and thought it was utterly brilliant. I won't go into that though, because I have a burning question that I need some input on, regarding a particular scene in this production:
*SPOILERS AHEAD*? Possibly?
In this production, right after Claudius' scene with Laertes, there is a scene between Horatio and Gertrude, in which Horatio gives Gertrude the letter from Hamlet, and she realizes the king tried to kill him. As soon as we got to that scene, my ears perked up even more, because I realized I had no memory of seeing that scene in any other production. I took mental note of several specific lines in the scene so I could search for it later. However, I cannot find it in any online text. None of the lines that I remember appear at all when I use the search function, nor can I find any scene between Horatio and Gertrude. DID ROBERT ICKE JUST WRITE THIS SCENE IN?? It sounded like Shakespeare, but it was fairly straightforward in content, so it wouldn't have been too difficult to fake. Or is the scene totally in the text and I'm just completely mistaken? Is it a folio/quarto discrepancy? I thought the scene worked very well actually, but now I'm utterly confused.
*END SPOILER*
If anyone can shed some light on this, I would be so grateful.
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Post by lynette on Mar 26, 2017 18:51:29 GMT
I mentioned this scene earlier in the thread. It is an alternate scene from first quarto ( I think I said that) and I haven't seen it before. It affects the way Gertrude behaves in the cemetery scene as she knows Hamlet is around and also the end as she knows Claudius is even and so.....
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Post by alexandra on Mar 26, 2017 18:53:54 GMT
It's in the First Quarto, sondheimhats. Works here, doesn't it?
I saw this again recently. It's deepened and bedded in beautifully since the opening. It's fascinating, and Scott is now quite, quite stunning. I heard To be or not to be as if for the first time.
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Post by sondheimhats on Mar 26, 2017 19:19:46 GMT
Thanks for the responses. Sorry I missed your earlier post lynette. I did a scan through the earlier pages to see if I could find any discussion about it, but I clearly did not look carefully enough.
I've never read any of the quartos - I was always under the (apparently false) impression that the general "full text" of Hamlet (like the one I was looking at online) was already a bit of a mashing together of various quartos and folios, etc. I hadn't thought to look through the quartos individually. Thanks for pointing that out!
I did indeed love the inclusion of the scene. I thought it worked excellently.
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Post by alexandra on Mar 26, 2017 20:11:52 GMT
I didn't identify that scene as coming from Q1 btw. I read it in, I think, Holger Schott Syme's interesting review on his dispositio blog. I recommend this, long though it is.
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Post by lynette on Mar 26, 2017 21:10:27 GMT
Please don't get the impression that I knew what and where that scene was! I had to look it up. I thought it had been made up. I was intrigued because a long while ago in Birmingham and Stratford, making up Shakespeare was commonplace! There was a RII at the Old B'ham Rep with a whole scene written by the director to explain the back story. And I think the Histories were lavishly endowed with new stuff in the '60s. Ah, the good old days.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 26, 2017 21:15:40 GMT
I played Corambis (the equivalent character to Polonius) in a semi-staged reading of the Bad Quarto of Hamlet last year - and the scene between Horatio and Gertred was the only one that really shone a new light on the story.
It makes Gertrude's journey in Act 5 far more interesting.
I used to be a big fan of the Bad Quarto - but having now performed it, I never want to see it again. But the Horatio/Gertrude scene deserves to be saved.
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Post by Rory on Mar 27, 2017 6:08:48 GMT
Transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre. June 9 - Sept 3
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Post by Kenneth_C on Mar 27, 2017 14:30:28 GMT
Transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre. June 9 - Sept 3 Then it is "not to be" for me. Would love for NTLive to broadcast it, but I think that's unlikely. They have the Barbican/Cumberbatch monstrosity on repeat, and seem to have relegated the superior NT/Kinnear to the archives. I doubt they will see the need to have a third Hamlet in their stable.
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 27, 2017 15:16:36 GMT
Almeida could broadcast it on its own rights like it did with Richard Ш. But they'd announced it by now, I guess...
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 28, 2017 7:52:33 GMT
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 28, 2017 9:20:23 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Mar 28, 2017 9:22:16 GMT
That was a dream.
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Post by theatremadness on Mar 28, 2017 9:23:44 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done? Nope, he's not in it - though he was in a scene from the play, performed at the National Theatre 50th Anniversary Gala!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 9:26:50 GMT
I thought Andrew Scott was doing Angels in Americas, as soon as the Almeida run was done? Nope, he's not in it - though he was in a scene from the play, performed at the National Theatre 50th Anniversary Gala! I know Moriarty is everywhere but he'd struggle to be doing 4 hours of Hamlet and rehearsing for that!
(But no, that was the him and Dominic Cooper 50th Anniversary extract. Andrew Garfield is playing Prior, that Scott did in that...too many Andrews about clearly...)
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Post by alexandra on Mar 28, 2017 9:55:59 GMT
Though Garfield and Nathan Lane were at the Almeida the other day, seeing Re-member me, rather than Hamlet.
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