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Post by jadnoop on Sept 20, 2018 14:43:17 GMT
Looks like we should be getting an update in the next few days with full play information, since these talks have just been added to the website:
1/ A talk with/about Martin Crimp (Feb 15th 2019) so presumably this means that "When We Have Tortured..." will be coming soon,
2/ A talk with Pam MacKinnon & Bruce Norris (Mar 15th 2019) so presumably "Downstate" will be playing around this date and announced soon.
3/ A talk about Tartuffe (Apr 25th 2019)
4/ A talk with John Donnelly (Apr 27th 2019)
Does anyone know what the third and fourth talks relate to? I don't see these listed in the 'coming up at the NT' page.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 20, 2018 14:52:41 GMT
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Post by dani on Sept 20, 2018 15:26:36 GMT
Maybe this is a leap of the imagination, but couldn't Donnelly be doing a new version of Tartuffe?
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 20, 2018 15:42:07 GMT
Maybe this is a leap of the imagination, but couldn't Donnelly be doing a new version of Tartuffe? Would that make it the third Tartuffe in a year?
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Post by dani on Sept 20, 2018 16:01:49 GMT
Maybe this is a leap of the imagination, but couldn't Donnelly be doing a new version of Tartuffe? Would that make it the third Tartuffe in a year? It would. They come not single spies, but in battalions.
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Post by lynette on Sept 21, 2018 11:40:44 GMT
RSC seemed to have nailed the update of Tartuffe so I wonder what another version could be.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 21, 2018 11:54:54 GMT
There will indeed be a new Tartuffe in the season..
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Post by Rory on Sept 21, 2018 12:01:55 GMT
Hopefully it will not be a dual language version!
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Post by cirque on Sept 21, 2018 12:07:28 GMT
so why the sudden eruption of Tartuffe..s
Think Peer Gynt retitled Peter Gynt is also in season.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 21, 2018 12:07:53 GMT
I think it is time the National embraced Esperanto as a performance language - I think Tartuffe would make an ideal first choice in the Esperanto season
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 22:36:40 GMT
RSC seemed to have nailed the update of Tartuffe so I wonder what another version could be. All female?
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Post by zahidf on Sept 22, 2018 10:41:26 GMT
RSC seemed to have nailed the update of Tartuffe so I wonder what another version could be. I guess that means the RSC won't transfer:-(
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Post by lynette on Sept 22, 2018 20:49:46 GMT
The RSC Tartuffe is I understand very Birmingham so maybe it wouldn’t go down so well at the Barbican.
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Post by rosmersholm on Sept 27, 2018 19:15:09 GMT
A revival of Top Girls, and a stage adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel Small Island.
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Post by Jan on Sept 27, 2018 19:23:42 GMT
That shows a lack of imagination, it has been revived quite often, and putting it in one of the larger theatres will probably kill it. I’d like to see a revival of Serious Money instead.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Sept 27, 2018 19:54:05 GMT
There are other Churchill’s that are far more ripe for revival,. Cloud Nine or Vinegar Tom, for example, which both address questions of gender. Serious Money and Mad Forest would also be good to see again and the Royal Exchange Skriker showed that it stood up very well. Top Girls in some sort of reinvention then maybe as the play would benefit from that but much less so in a staging retread.
Thanks once more rosmersholm for your advance information.
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Post by learfan on Sept 27, 2018 21:05:24 GMT
That shows a lack of imagination, it has been revived quite often, and putting it in one of the larger theatres will probably kill it. I’d like to see a revival of Serious Money instead. I'd ignore her altogether.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 27, 2018 21:47:09 GMT
Churchill has been given enough exposure by Norris. There are other contemporary female writers who deserve their chances in the National spotlight.
Marber needs to be given a rest as well.
Playing favourites is not on
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Post by jadnoop on Sept 28, 2018 0:24:29 GMT
The page for 'When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other' has been added to the NT website now (not live yet though). Assuming that the timetable is the same as the previous seasons, the full announcement should be in the next few days.
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Post by Jon on Sept 28, 2018 1:38:59 GMT
I wonder if Small Island is the Olivier or the Lyttelton?
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 28, 2018 5:15:40 GMT
I'm not a fan of adaptations of novels and worry that they are adapting the Andrea Levy because they can't get plays by women they think are good enough. The fact that the Bridge theatre will have had two such adaptations (Lucy Barton and Alys, Always) in a short time also suggests they are not finding top-quality original plays by women.
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Post by Jan on Sept 28, 2018 5:48:23 GMT
I'm not a fan of adaptations of novels and worry that they are adapting the Andrea Levy because they can't get plays by women they think are good enough. The fact that the Bridge theatre will have had two such adaptations (Lucy Barton and Alys, Always) in a short time also suggests they are not finding top-quality original plays by women. Another symptom of that is they are commissioning women writers not to write new plays but to produce new versions of classic plays that don't really require new versions at all - Miss Julie at NT and Three Sisters at Almeida being only the two most recent of many examples.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 6:37:58 GMT
In the main, they're really not gettung top quality new plays by men either but that doesn't stop them putting them on...
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 28, 2018 8:39:07 GMT
In the main, they're really not gettung top quality new plays by men either but that doesn't stop them putting them on... That is indeed true; point taken.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 28, 2018 11:26:54 GMT
I'd be more inclined to give the NT the benefit of the doubt re lack of decent female scripts if they hadn't done an overnight U-turn on working with a friend of mine (a fantastic and award winning emerging writer) immediately after she reported a #MeToo related incident that happened there.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 28, 2018 11:32:39 GMT
They don't just have to have new plays by women. There are plenty of good scripts that have yet to have an airing at the NT.
I started a thread several months ago asking for suggestions and there were loads of suggestions that would be worth considering.
Norris seems very blinkered in his approach to programming.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 3, 2018 9:35:36 GMT
Rufus Norris will direct Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Small Island in the Olivier
Jonathan Kent will direct James McArdle in David Hare’s new version of Peer Gynt, a co production with EIF
Blanche McIntyre directs John Donnelly’s new version of Moliere’s Tartuffe
Lyndsey Turner directs Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls in the Lyttelton
Polly Findlay directs Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son in the Lyttelton, starting Roger Allam
Simon Godwin directs Simon Woods’ debut play Hansard, starting Alex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan
Inua Ellams adapts Chekhov’s Three Sisters, directed by Nadia Fall
Ella Hickson, Ben and Max Ringham collaborate on ‘a ground-breaking sonic collaboration’ called ANNA in the Dorfman, directed by Natalie Abrahami
Amy Hodge will directs Dorfman kids show Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear - The Musical!
Annie Baker is back! Lila Neugebauer directs her The Antipodes
Lenny Henry writes and stars in Richard Pryor on Fire, directed by Paulette Randall
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Post by Rory on Oct 3, 2018 9:39:54 GMT
Peer Gynt, Rutherford and Son and Hansard stand out for me. I could take or leave the rest of it.
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Post by Rory on Oct 3, 2018 9:41:49 GMT
The Annie Baker would be well worth a look too.
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Post by jadnoop on Oct 3, 2018 9:42:59 GMT
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