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Post by Rory on Mar 22, 2018 23:42:53 GMT
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 23, 2018 7:28:19 GMT
When I loaded this thread Ryan's comments came out as just blank for a second or two, before my old iPad finally agreed to put in the content.....most apt!  |
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Post by Rory on Mar 23, 2018 9:46:25 GMT
A season of 20 one act plays. Sounds fab! Jamie Lloyd and Patrick Marber are involved.
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Post by dani on Mar 23, 2018 9:58:16 GMT
I hope Iwan Rheon is better than he was in Riviera.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 10:00:56 GMT
I hope Iwan Rheon is as fabulous as he was in 'Vicious'.
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Post by mistressjojo on Mar 23, 2018 11:27:04 GMT
Not a huge fan of .....
Pinter. But I would make an exception....
for David.
(Beat)
Tennant.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 23, 2018 13:48:37 GMT
Really excited at the thread title.
Even more excited on reading the first post.
Then I read the second post. Meh.
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Post by Jan on Mar 23, 2018 14:21:36 GMT
Not a huge fan of ..... Pinter. But I would make an exception.... for David. (Beat) Tennant. I thought this looked interesting till I saw his name associated it - now I think it’s likely to be just a vehicle for some self-regarding show-off actors rather than about Pinter. Bill Bailey organised (or was associated with) something similar a few years ago wasn’t he ? |
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 23, 2018 14:25:11 GMT
Bill Bailey organised (or was associated with) something similar a few years ago wasn’t he ? And then he did go home! |
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Post by joem on Apr 7, 2018 21:21:22 GMT
Where have the details for this been announced? I am desperate to complete Pinter's one-act plays and August requires planning in advance....
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Post by Rory on Apr 7, 2018 21:55:31 GMT
All we know at this stage is the info contained in the replicated tweets at the top of the thread. BB's article elaborated to say there were plans to stage 20 Pinter one acts in the season.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2018 11:47:31 GMT
Looks like this will be announced shortly. Dates appear to be 6th Sept - 23rd February. Two one acts per performance mostly.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 25, 2018 23:05:51 GMT
I wonder what is meant by Pinter’s one act plays, except the obvious?
Looked at his plays on Wiki and that didn’t help. What do you think will get put on? Are we looking at something like Old Times, The Lover and the Dumb Waiter?
BTW I love where a season has been given over to a playwright, it allows me to immerse myself and invest in their work, thinking The Oscar Wilde season here.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 25, 2018 23:16:12 GMT
Hopefully One for the Road will feature. A brilliantly dark piece. Really nasty.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 7:22:46 GMT
TWENTY of 'em? Well that's going to be one hell of a financial commitment for the Pinter completist (and presumably they're hoping there'll be enough of those to make this a real money-spinner)! I know I've already seen The Lover and The Collection when they were presented as a double-bill a number of years back, and I also saw a few as rehearsed readings when Jamie Lloyd was at the Trafalgar Studios but the only one of those I really remember is Victoria Station. I'll be interested to see what's included and what the schedule is like.
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Post by Rory on Apr 26, 2018 8:28:01 GMT
It looks as if some of the groupings will be as follows in this order of appearance for a few weeks at a time and with some in rep:
The Lover / The Collection;
Landscape / A Kind of Alaska;
Moonlight / Night School;
The Room / Victoria Station /Family Voices;
Party Time / Celebration;
The Dumb Waiter / A Slight Ache
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 9:22:01 GMT
Oh gosh. All those pauses. They'll need to add an extra fortnight to the production run just for those.
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Post by Jan on Apr 26, 2018 14:21:48 GMT
I’ve seen quite a few of those. “A Kind of Alaska” is a masterpiece. I assume they’ll also be doing his later political stuff like “Mountain Language” which I found tedious in the extreme.
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Post by joem on Apr 27, 2018 22:04:38 GMT
It looks as if some of the groupings will be as follows in this order of appearance for a few weeks at a time and with some in rep: The Lover / The Collection; Landscape / A Kind of Alaska; Moonlight / Night School; The Room / Victoria Station /Family Voices; Party Time / Celebration; The Dumb Waiter / A Slight Ache No "The Dwarfs" or "A Night Out" or "Tea Party"  ? Those grouping are bad for me. The ones I need to see are paired with one I've seen. I thought Moonlight was a longer play? |
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Post by popcultureboy on Apr 27, 2018 22:42:52 GMT
Moonlight is around 80 minutes, so presumably Night School isn't that long.
Also, don't get too upset about omissions just yet, since it's noted there will be 20 Pinter plays featured and the earlier post only lists thirteen.....
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Post by NeilVHughes on Apr 27, 2018 22:57:43 GMT
Will be interesting to see how this is going to be marketed.
Not a naturally popular cycle therefore ‘star’ appeal will have to be high to maintain interest.
On the other hand for a completist (are there many?) to see all the plays will be prohibitively expensive at traditional West End prices, this will be quite an investment of time and money, will likely end up seeing them all, hope they have some multi play discount scheme.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 28, 2018 0:53:08 GMT
It looks as if some of the groupings will be as follows in this order of appearance for a few weeks at a time and with some in rep: The Lover / The Collection; Landscape / A Kind of Alaska; Moonlight / Night School; The Room / Victoria Station /Family Voices; Party Time / Celebration; The Dumb Waiter / A Slight Ache No "The Dwarfs" or "A Night Out" or "Tea Party" ? Those grouping are bad for me. The ones I need to see are paired with one I've seen. I thought Moonlight was a longer play? Good licence to indulge, which I intend to do. Betrayal and Old Times If I recall we’re equally short plays, don’t think more than 90 minutes long. Michael Billington must be smacking his lips at this, after all he authored the authors biography. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 9:32:55 GMT
Moonlight and The Dumb Waiter are interesting inclusions considering the Donmar staged the first on its own, and the Trafalgar Studios and Print Room have both had independent productions of the second. If they're pairing them with extremely short plays that wouldn't make much of a double-bill with anything less than an 80 minute play, I'd rather have a triple or even quadruple-bill than have to sit through a relatively long play I've already seen to get to the short play that's new to me.
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Post by joem on Apr 28, 2018 9:33:54 GMT
And a good biography it is.
If I can get tickets I'll see as many of the missing ones as they put on. Not sure there will ever be a better opportunity to do so.
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Post by Jan on Apr 28, 2018 9:46:07 GMT
I suppose I'm a Pinter completist - but as such I actively welcome the chance to see some of the plays again even though I've seen them several times before. However, I'll only do so if TodayTix offers cheap front row seats like they did for The Birthday Party, it is a rotten theatre.
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Post by Xanderl on May 10, 2018 6:24:11 GMT
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Post by stefy69 on May 10, 2018 6:52:37 GMT
Certainly an exciting season, albeit a darn expensive one !!!
A quick question : I've never seen Celebration be grateful for opinions on that one please ? |
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 10, 2018 7:32:36 GMT
This cast is not a company of world class creatives: Ron Cook, Danny Dyer, Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Jane Horrocks, Celia Imrie, John Macmillan, Emma Naomi, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Abraham Popoola, David Suchet and Nicholas Woodeson. It’s the same boring list of people that always get cast in such things  |
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