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Post by drmaplewood on Nov 8, 2017 9:35:51 GMT
Stars Jim Broadbent and runs Oct 18-Dec 29 2018 at the Bridge, apparently.
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 8, 2017 9:39:48 GMT
Excellent!
Still amazed that "A Behanding in Spokane" has never been produced in the UK (as far as I'm aware)
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Post by drmaplewood on Nov 8, 2017 9:41:27 GMT
Bit more info
The play is about Hans Christian Andersen, and the horrifying ‘true’ source of his inspiration... dir Matthew Dunster, design Anna Fleischle, tkts on sale Nov 14 10am
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Post by stefy69 on Nov 8, 2017 9:43:16 GMT
Well I think you can count me in !  |
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Post by zahidf on Nov 8, 2017 9:46:24 GMT
Um hell yeah! That sounds bloody ace
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Post by n1david on Nov 8, 2017 9:53:49 GMT
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 8, 2017 9:56:27 GMT
Does sound good but putting it on sale a year in advance is ludicrous. (says the person who just booked for the Ring Cycle next October, but that's different probably)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 10:00:40 GMT
So..... the first four productions to go on sale at this theatre all have male writers and male directors. I'm definitely going to book this, I do maintain a dark fondness for The Pillowman, but I will be raising disappointed eyebrows at the Nicks for their lack of having female creatives lined up ready to go for the first season. They must know how this looks in 2017? Hope the rest of the forthcoming summer season starts to make up for it!
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Post by Rory on Nov 8, 2017 10:16:53 GMT
This sounds awesome! I like the sound of a lot of the Bridge's new writing. The Barnet Norris (Nightfall), Nina Raine (untitled about Bach) and John Hodge (Flatpack) and Lucinda Coxon plays sound good too. It could become my new favourite venue and I haven't even been yet!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 10:17:12 GMT
I can't believe I'm already planning my theatre going for next Christmas...!
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Post by Rory on Nov 8, 2017 10:17:28 GMT
Oops, Barney Norris, even!
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Post by Marwood on Nov 8, 2017 10:31:34 GMT
McDonagh has certainly been busy recently, what with Hangmen, Three Billboards... and this in the space of two years, following the long gap after Seven Psychopaths: I'll wait to see what availability is like next year, I have no intention of booking for anything so far in advance.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Nov 8, 2017 10:46:54 GMT
Does sound good but putting it on sale a year in advance is ludicrous. Cash flow! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 11:09:10 GMT
Also keeps traffic flowing to the website and therefore presumably nudges people who haven't booked for other things yet to do so. Not a bad plan!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Nov 8, 2017 11:20:08 GMT
Bizarrely I was thinking about McDonagh last night. I must be psychic.
Now Nicky has left the NT he doesn’t need to care about all that ‘feminist stuff’ ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 11:49:59 GMT
Exciting news! Thanks for the heads up and for links re booking details. Much appreciated. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 11:54:18 GMT
So..... the first four productions to go on sale at this theatre all have male writers and male directors. I'm definitely going to book this, I do maintain a dark fondness for The Pillowman, but I will be raising disappointed eyebrows at the Nicks for their lack of having female creatives lined up ready to go for the first season. They must know how this looks in 2017? Hope the rest of the forthcoming summer season starts to make up for it! Do you think though, the way to send a message to Nicky x2 is by not booking for these productions at his shiny new theatre until they address the gender imbalance? If more people don't book and they also send them messages via social media to explain why they haven't booked, surely lots of empty seats will encourage them to do something about it. If they put on a season of productions lacking female creatives and yet people still go to see them it doesn't really give them any incentive to change does it? If they won't do it willingly because they think it's right, perhaps they need to be hit where it hurts. In the pocket. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 11:59:00 GMT
^ It always really hurts when you shoot yourself in the foot though...  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 12:00:57 GMT
Sort of an awkward seesaw really; I'd rather reward them for employing women than punish them for employing men, and if the theatre goes out of business all together, they'd be more likely to blame it on the location or the fact it was a risky business venture than wonder if all those people howling about the lack of female representation maybe had a point after all. So I'll book cheapies for the men, increase my per-ticket spend for ladies (should they get any), and keep howling from dawn 'til dusk.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Nov 8, 2017 12:18:30 GMT
Nick Hytner said in a recent interview that the Bridge Theatre isn't doing seasons. They are programming show-by-show and opening booking as appropriate. So they initially put the first three shows on sale together because they used the three configurations of this flexible theatre: End-On (Young Marx), Promenade (Julius Caesar) and Thrust (Nightfall). Of those two, Nicholas Hytner is directing the first two himself, which is surely an understandable decision for an Artistic Director. It seems a little unreasonable to expect him to undergo a sex change between these two shows in order to achieve short-term gender parity. The first visiting director is male. We don't yet know anything at all about the possible second visiting director of the next show (July to September 2018). Then we have a male director of today's announced play.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 12:25:29 GMT
I think I read that they are programming plays as they become ready - but the initial announcement did have a good level of female writers so hopefully the whole is going to look more balanced. Nick H is talking a good talk about proper female representation so I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 13:41:09 GMT
Fairy nuff. I'll give Nicky x2 the benefit of the doubt before I go all Emmeline Pankhurst on them. Well actually I just want to wear a big hat and wave a placard around demanding more female creatives and more male nudity in the vain hope that they'll give me some free madeleines to shut me up but every little bit of action helps I'm sure. Votes for Women!  |
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Post by Jon on Nov 8, 2017 13:44:24 GMT
For The Bridge to get a new McDonagh play is a coup especially as his wattage is only going to increase thanks to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 8, 2017 13:48:29 GMT
Any new McDonagh is worth seeing. Yay!
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Post by Jon on Nov 8, 2017 13:56:28 GMT
It’s odd there is no Sunday peformances scheduled. I wonder if they’re making the decision to keep them or scrap them?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Nov 8, 2017 13:59:51 GMT
It’s odd there is no Sunday peformances scheduled. I wonder if they’re making the decision to keep them or scrap them? There are also no Monday evenings (except in the preview week). My guess is that they'll wait for a few months, then assess their Sunday box office, then decide whether to schedule either Sunday matinees or Monday evenings for this play. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 14:09:52 GMT
I thought one of the USPs of the Bridge Theatre was that they plan to keep Monday evenings clear as a general rule for one-off events. Sure, everything could easily change by next October (maybe they'll be trying to make interval beignets a thing by then) but that's where we currently are.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 15:19:29 GMT
Fairy nuff. I'll give Nicky x2 the benefit of the doubt before I go all Emmeline Pankhurst on them. Well actually I just want to wear a big hat and wave a placard around demanding more female creatives and more male nudity in the vain hope that they'll give me some free madeleines to shut me up but every little bit of action helps I'm sure. Votes for Women! God, please not more male nudity - one can barely go to the theatre these days without seeing male appendages flapping in the breeze. Or it could just be me. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 15:21:47 GMT
God, please not more male nudity - one can barely go to the theatre these days without seeing male appendages flapping in the breeze. Or it could just be me. Yes. It's just you. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 16:04:52 GMT
Fairy nuff. I'll give Nicky x2 the benefit of the doubt before I go all Emmeline Pankhurst on them. Well actually I just want to wear a big hat and wave a placard around demanding more female creatives and more male nudity in the vain hope that they'll give me some free madeleines to shut me up but every little bit of action helps I'm sure. Votes for Women! God, please not more male nudity - one can barely go to the theatre these days without seeing male appendages flapping in the breeze.
Or it could just be me. Flapping?! In a breeze?!? Blimey!  Mine just... erm... well, never mind. What I really meant was is there any chance you could post details of the production(s) where aforementioned appendages have... flapped? Just read this on BBC news. Would make a great scene in a play. With quite a bit of ‘flapping’... Python found in trousers of drunk man in Germany www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41914261 |
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Mine just... erm... well, never mind. What I really meant was is there any chance you could post details of the production(s) where aforementioned appendages have... flapped?