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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2016 22:52:04 GMT
EXCITING
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Post by partridge on Nov 10, 2016 22:58:26 GMT
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Post by Michael on Nov 11, 2016 8:53:19 GMT
Removed two posts. If you read anything offensive/aggressive/insulting/similar, please use the Report Post function. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 9:32:57 GMT
Wow! I mean, I want to know about the new Hampstead season (being announced today, will include Sex With A Stranger from 27th January starring Emilia Fox), but not half as much as I want to know what I missed here!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 9:53:55 GMT
Same! I mean Hampstead you're all very exciting and all but I think you should stage whatever went on here...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 11:39:27 GMT
Hmm. Sex With Strangers Upstairs, two new plays Downstairs (Experience and Scarlett). Not quite the exciting full season I'd've expected from the first post.
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Post by Michael on Nov 11, 2016 12:13:26 GMT
Removed a few more posts. Please stay on topic and don't reopen the sore. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 12:17:58 GMT
Have emails gone out or is it just on their website?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 12:19:53 GMT
I haven't had any emails yet, but they're all on the website. They quite sweetly have a (slightly inaccurately named) Just Announced section on there, but going through the spaces individually doesn't turn up anything else: www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/just-announced/ |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 12:23:08 GMT
Ah that wasn't there when I checked, I was obviously too keen! Many thanks. I haven't been the Hampstead in a year, shame on me.
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Post by foxa on Nov 11, 2016 12:27:26 GMT
'Sex with Strangers' has two characters who are writers - writers as characters aren't always great. (Worked in 'The Seagull' and, I guess 'Deathtrap' - hard to think of many others.) And one of them is a blogger (ugh - not ugh as a thing to do, it's a fine and honourable thing to do, but ugh as a 'hey I'm going to show how up-to-date I am by having a character be a blogger, when you know in five years it will seem really old hat. It will all be mental telepathy or something then.) But I'm willing to be convinced.
Not much info on the other two but maybe someone who knows the writers' work would be more excited?
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Post by bordeaux on Nov 11, 2016 12:35:39 GMT
Hmm. Sex With Strangers Upstairs, two new plays Downstairs (Experience and Scarlett). Not quite the exciting full season I'd've expected from the first post. Indeed. Surely 'exciting' is new plays by major playwrights, a return to the stage of a beloved major actor or two, perhaps a revival of a modern classic unjustifiably neglected? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 12:37:15 GMT
Bruce Willis is dead in 6th sense, the woman is a man in crying game, rosebud is a sled in citizen Kane (worst twist ever)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 12:37:28 GMT
Maybe Parsley is a huge Emilia Fox fan? Or related to one of the Downstairs playwrights? Or actually *is* one of the Downstairs playwrights? Or actually *is* Emilia Fox?
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 11, 2016 16:06:00 GMT
Maybe Parsley [...] actually *is* Emilia Fox? Now I'm going to be disappointed if parsley isn't Emilia Fox. |
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Post by Jan on Nov 11, 2016 16:46:37 GMT
Hampstead are constrained by their tedious new-plays-only policy which they should ditch - this time they haven't even tried to stretch the boundaries of the policy as they have done with Wild Honey, Longing, Mr Foote's Other Leg etc. in the past.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Nov 11, 2016 17:06:38 GMT
Hampstead are constrained by their tedious new-plays-only policy which they should ditch - this time they haven't even tried to stretch the boundaries of the policy as they have done with Wild Honey, Longing, Mr Foote's Other Leg etc. in the past. To be fair to Hampstead Theatre, I doubt that they actually have a policy to do only tedious new plays. Actually, I'm EXCITED about this announcement because I see that Scarlett by Colette Kane is a co-production with Hampstead Downstairs and Theatr Clwyd. I trust Theatr Clwyd's taste in new work after recently seeing Pilgrims at the Yard (from HighTide Festival) and hearing good things about Love, Lies and Taxidermy in Paines Plough's mobile Roundabout Theatre (at the Edinburgh Fringe and then touring nationwide). |
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Post by Jan on Nov 11, 2016 18:40:11 GMT
Hampstead are constrained by their tedious new-plays-only policy which they should ditch - this time they haven't even tried to stretch the boundaries of the policy as they have done with Wild Honey, Longing, Mr Foote's Other Leg etc. in the past. To be fair to Hampstead Theatre, I doubt that they actually have a policy to do only tedious new plays. Actually, I'm EXCITED about this announcement because I see that Scarlett by Colette Kane is a co-production with Hampstead Downstairs and Theatr Clwyd. I trust Theatr Clwyd's taste in new work after recently seeing Pilgrims at the Yard (from HighTide Festival) and hearing good things about Love, Lies and Taxidermy in Paines Plough's mobile Roundabout Theatre (at the Edinburgh Fringe and then touring nationwide). I realise that English is your second language, after Welsh, but I tried to help you by employing hyphens to clarify what the adjective was applying to. |
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 11, 2016 19:29:46 GMT
Oooh Jan! V funny
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