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Post by NeilVHughes on Sept 28, 2018 11:13:24 GMT
If you were wondering where the mandatory annual Vanya was being staged this year.
Olivier and Tony Award-winner Terry Johnson returns to Hampstead following his critically acclaimed hit Prism, starring Robert Lindsay.
His new version of Anton Chekhov’s classic tragicomedy is charged with the Russian master’s wit and his acute observation of the comic absurdity of human life.
Playing on the Main Stage 30 November - 12 January.
Public Booking opens at 10.30am on Thursday 4 October.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 11:16:23 GMT
Slightly confusingly phrased email, I can see a skim-reader assuming Robert Lindsay will be in Vanya.
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 28, 2018 11:17:37 GMT
insert comment about Hampstead being a new writing theatre and the number of plays by women vs number of plays by Terry Johnson they have put on
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 11:22:43 GMT
Oh lovely. They can recycle all of those trees from the last Chekhov play they did.
Nice to see them doing their bit for the environment.
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Post by lynette on Sept 28, 2018 12:27:39 GMT
It can be Chekhov bingo - a white barked tree, a samovar, a black dress, etc...
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 28, 2018 12:43:01 GMT
I get them mixed up - is Uncle Vanya the one where they all live on a big estate, go on and on about Moscow and chopping down trees and then somebody kills themselves oh hang on that's all of them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 12:47:53 GMT
I wonder who will play Masha? There's always a Masha in Chekhov.
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Post by Jan on Sept 28, 2018 14:37:14 GMT
insert comment about Hampstead being a new writing theatre and the number of plays by women vs number of plays by Terry Johnson they have put on They realised some years ago that a diet of only new plays is commercially problematic so they smuggle old plays into their programme too. Good for them, there are way too many new plays staged in the London subsidised sector and not enough revivals - there are several theatres that only do new plays but none that only do revivals. |
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Post by Snciole on Sept 28, 2018 16:43:10 GMT
Slightly confusingly phrased email, I can see a skim-reader assuming Robert Lindsay will be in Vanya. I did this. Hampstead have said he won't be in it. |
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Post by Rory on Sept 28, 2018 16:44:13 GMT
Well this will certainly perk everyone up no end over Christmas.
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Post by foxa on Sept 28, 2018 16:53:25 GMT
“SONIA: What can we do? We must live our lives. Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live through the long procession of days before us, and through the long evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us; we shall work for others without rest, both now and when we are old; and when our last hour comes we shall meet it humbly, and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered and wept, that our life was bitter, and God will have pity on us. Ah, then dear, dear Uncle, we shall see that bright and beautiful life; we shall rejoice and look back upon our sorrow here; a tender smile—and—we shall rest. I have faith, Uncle, fervent, passionate faith. [SONIA kneels down before her uncle and lays her head on his hands. She speaks in a weary voice] We shall rest. [TELEGIN plays softly on the guitar] We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. We shall see all evil and all our pain sink away in the great compassion that shall enfold the world. Our life will be as peaceful and tender and sweet as a caress. I have faith; I have faith. [She wipes away her tears] My poor, poor Uncle Vanya, you are crying! [Weeping] You have never known what happiness was, but wait, Uncle Vanya, wait! We shall rest. [She embraces him] We shall rest. [The WATCHMAN’S rattle is heard in the garden; TELEGIN plays softly; MME. VOITSKAYA writes something on the margin of her pamphlet; MARINA knits her stocking] We shall rest.
UNCLE VANYA: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!
SONIA passes him some Christmas pudding and adjusts his paper hat.
They look longingly out at the audience.
THE END.
Yes, with a few adjustments PERFECT for Christmas.
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Post by lynette on Sept 28, 2018 17:52:28 GMT
Will there be fur? Hope so.
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Post by learfan on Sept 28, 2018 17:54:18 GMT
Will probably wait for the cast, which cant be far off, they must be starting rehearsals soon?
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Post by learfan on Sept 28, 2018 17:55:19 GMT
Will probably wait for the cast, which cant be far off, they must be starting rehearsals soon?
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Post by Rory on Nov 7, 2018 17:05:50 GMT
I missed this cast announcement somehow but it's not too shabby.....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2018 19:16:59 GMT
I'll never forgive Sara Kestelman for not thanking me for letting her pass at the Bridge Theatre.
She's dead to me.
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Post by Rory on Nov 7, 2018 19:38:49 GMT
I hate people who ignore a good deed and display a lack of basic good manners too @ryan! Drives me nuts!
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Post by Jan on Nov 8, 2018 8:20:19 GMT
I missed this cast announcement somehow but it's not too shabby..... Oh - Cox is great - perfect casting. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 8:33:30 GMT
I'm sure Alan Cox is very good but weren't there any Russian actors deemed good enough to play the part?
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Post by Jan on Nov 8, 2018 9:46:05 GMT
I'm sure Alan Cox is very good but weren't there any Russian actors deemed good enough to play the part? Большая ошибка They couldn't find a Russian actor who'd appeared in a series on Sky Atlantic with low viewing figures, so reluctantly they had to use a UK actor. |
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Post by learfan on Nov 8, 2018 11:59:20 GMT
I missed this cast announcement somehow but it's not too shabby..... Oh - Cox is great - perfect casting. Yes, will probably book for this now. |
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Post by Jan on Nov 9, 2018 18:20:33 GMT
Oh - Cox is great - perfect casting. Yes, will probably book for this now. Last saw Sara Kestelman in 1988 in "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman (1603). Saw her before that in several things including Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "The Price" - all three right up your street eh ? |
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Post by learfan on Nov 9, 2018 20:20:44 GMT
Yes, will probably book for this now. Last saw Sara Kestelman in 1988 in "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman (1603). Saw her before that in several things including Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "The Price" - all three right up your street eh ? Oh defo! Missed the Chapman Annoyingly. She is a class act. |
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Post by harrietcraig on Nov 9, 2018 22:52:01 GMT
Last saw Sara Kestelman in 1988 in "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman (1603). Saw her before that in several things including Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "The Price" - all three right up your street eh ? Oh defo! Missed the Chapman Annoyingly. She is a class act. Last saw Sara Kestelman in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1971. I just looked up the cast for that production, and holy cow: Ben Kingsley as Demetrius and Patrick Stewart as Tom Snout? I hope I still have the Playbill somewhere. (Odds are that I do, but putting my hands on it is another matter.) |
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Post by lynette on Nov 10, 2018 0:35:24 GMT
She was very good in that play about the family business. Flawed play but strong performance.
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Post by Jan on Nov 10, 2018 7:18:33 GMT
She was very good in that play about the family business. Flawed play but strong performance. Saw her as Lady Macbeth opposite Bob Peck. Should have been perfect for that but Howard Davies’ production was, for once, very poor. |
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Post by Steve on Nov 10, 2018 11:46:26 GMT
Yes, will probably book for this now. Last saw Sara Kestelman in 1988 in "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman (1603). Saw her before that in several things including Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "The Price" - all three right up your street eh ? I last saw Sara Kestelman last month at the Globe, hosting the Alternative Miss World, eyes popping out of her head out at every costume! Here she is with the winner, Miss UFO (aka Andrey Bartenev wearing Lady Gaga balloon-heads):
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Nov 10, 2018 12:51:41 GMT
Yes, will probably book for this now. Last saw Sara Kestelman in 1988 in "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman (1603). Saw her before that in several things including Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "The Price" - all three right up your street eh ? She was reliably excellent in ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide....’, also at Hampstead, a few years ago. She was particularly powerful, for me, as Fraulein Schneider in the Donmar’s ‘Cabaret’, sounding like Lotte Lenya reborn with some caustic and unsentimental singing. |
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Post by Fleance on Nov 10, 2018 14:56:52 GMT
Last saw Sara Kestelman in 1988 in "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman (1603). Saw her before that in several things including Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "The Price" - all three right up your street eh ? I enjoyed that production of Bussy D'Ambois very much. I saw it the day before seeing The Changeling at the NT, so a jolly Jacobean tragedy double bill. I first saw Sara Kestleman in The Double Dealer at the NT in 1978. I was supposed to see her in As You Like It around that time, but she was ill and replaced by a fine Selina Cadell. |
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Post by peelee on Nov 10, 2018 16:53:31 GMT
I think that the first time I saw Sarah Kestelman on stage was in Gorky's Exiles in 1971 in the Aldwych Theatre days of the RSC. I've just checked who else was in the cast and there are names that rose to the top of their profession. In that decade the RSC did a run of plays that had originated with Russian writers, novel enough to me to get tickets for what was a lovely theatre for that sort of thing.
Re this latest production at Hampstead, I might well go to see Uncle Vanya, as it offers what other theatres won't be offering for the foreseeable future. I've had emails lately from local theatres drawing attention to their new plays I'll describe as in their terms, 'dealing with the issues of our time' that don't float my boat nor even have the effect of me wanting to go looking at boats. So, a classic revived: there's far worse out there that that by the look of things.
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