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Post by Jan on Aug 26, 2022 17:52:33 GMT
I was booked to see it at the National with SRB but was ill on the day Bad luck. I've held tickets for but been unable to attend several notable productions, SRB Richard III, Branagh Hamlet, Ejiofor/McGregor/Grandage Othello amongst them.
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Post by Jon on Aug 26, 2022 18:29:07 GMT
I do think we need to lay off the hyperbole that the RSC will no longer exists or die if Erica Whyman gets appointed, the backlash of the prospect of the place of Shakespeare having no theatre at all would be too strong.
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Post by Jan on Aug 26, 2022 19:37:52 GMT
I do think we need to lay off the hyperbole that the RSC will no longer exists or die if Erica Whyman gets appointed, the backlash of the prospect of the place of Shakespeare having no theatre at all would be too strong. Is it hyperbole ? As a “company” it ceased to exist 10 years ago. Stratford could quite easily manage with simply a summer Shakespeare festival as it did before the RSC existed.
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Post by artea on Aug 29, 2022 22:33:45 GMT
Given the greater reverence given to Shakespeare in Germany and Russian I can see the case for looking there for candidates. But how many UK representatives are on the Comedie Francaise board? There is a fun direct link between the rsc and the comedie-francaise: marina hands, daughter of Terry, has been a member of the company for a few years. She plays goneril in the first ever production there of King lear, if i understood correctly, opening in sep. It would take pages to list the differences between the comedie-francaise and the rsc and nt. The cf is a highly structured, very hierarchical company with lots of funding. France govt cares a lot about the arts. England govt doesn't.
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Post by sweets7 on Aug 29, 2022 23:47:52 GMT
Given the greater reverence given to Shakespeare in Germany and Russian I can see the case for looking there for candidates. But how many UK representatives are on the Comedie Francaise board? There is a fun direct link between the rsc and the comedie-francaise: marina hands, daughter of Terry, has been a member of the company for a few years. She plays goneril in the first ever production there of King lear, if i understood correctly, opening in sep. It would take pages to list the differences between the comedie-francaise and the rsc and nt. The cf is a highly structured, very hierarchical company with lots of funding. France govt cares a lot about the arts. England govt doesn't. Sounds very well French. In general society is highly structured and very hierarchical. Down to children at school being thought the proper way to eat their lunches…as in what order. Public services in French are extremely, I guess from our point of view, traditionally structured.
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Post by Jan on Aug 30, 2022 6:59:04 GMT
The cf is a highly structured, very hierarchical company with lots of funding. France govt cares a lot about the arts. England govt doesn't. That’s simply untrue. State funding for CF is almost exactly equal to state funding for the RSC. So apparently the French government mustn’t care about the arts either ?
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Post by imstillhere on Sept 2, 2022 22:52:48 GMT
My instinct is that the new artistic director will 100% be from our current roster of British Theatre Artistic Directors. It won't be someone with a body of work of Shakespeare productions. I'm thinking either Nadia Fall, Daniel Evans, Indhu Rubasingham or Tamara Harvey.
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Post by Jan on Sept 3, 2022 11:24:46 GMT
My instinct is that the new artistic director will 100% be from our current roster of British Theatre Artistic Directors. It won't be someone with a body of work of Shakespeare productions. I'm thinking either Nadia Fall, Daniel Evans, Indhu Rubasingham or Tamara Harvey. That would be a good list for the next NT director. But the RSC job would not be attractive to anyone mainly interested in new writing like Indhu Rubasingham. Do we know when the new AD will be announced ?
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Post by cirque on Sept 3, 2022 11:44:46 GMT
September is the latest thinking.
Hear a few front runners pulled out but that’s rumour mill…..Goold,Godwin etc…….don’t really know.
I still guess Whyman and therefore goodbye RSC
Shows this summer very bland….nothing awful,nothing great,very simply OK,……no real reason to travel to see them.
Next year hear repertoire will be dropped for straight runs……
Ah well
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Post by marob on Sept 3, 2022 11:48:17 GMT
Tamara Harvey’s also been mostly focused on new writing while she’s been AD at Theatr Clwyd.
They’ve also just started a massive renovation, which I believe is still seeking funding, and currently have an empty shell of a building, so I would hope that she wouldn’t leave without seeing that through to completion.
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Post by Jan on Sept 3, 2022 13:14:13 GMT
September is the latest thinking. Hear a few front runners pulled out but that’s rumour mill…..Goold,Godwin etc…….don’t really know. I still guess Whyman and therefore goodbye RSC Shows this summer very bland….nothing awful,nothing great,very simply OK,……no real reason to travel to see them. Next year hear repertoire will be dropped for straight runs…… Ah well Straight runs make it even less attractive to go to Stratford. Curious we get these “Goold pulled out“ rumours just like last time - setting us up for the same conclusion that the internal candidate was the only serious one left.
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Post by lynette on Sept 4, 2022 14:22:34 GMT
September is the latest thinking. Hear a few front runners pulled out but that’s rumour mill…..Goold,Godwin etc…….don’t really know. I still guess Whyman and therefore goodbye RSC Shows this summer very bland….nothing awful,nothing great,very simply OK,……no real reason to travel to see them. Next year hear repertoire will be dropped for straight runs…… Ah well Straight runs make it even less attractive to go to Stratford. Curious we get these “Goold pulled out“ rumours just like last time - setting us up for the same conclusion that the internal candidate was the only serious one left. Stratford a good option if they run three different shows in all three of the theatres, say over a weekend, Friday, and two on Saturday. The straight runs might be better for actors and attract , dare I say it, bigger names. They can commit for the time and then toddle off.
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 14:35:45 GMT
Straight runs make it even less attractive to go to Stratford. Curious we get these “Goold pulled out“ rumours just like last time - setting us up for the same conclusion that the internal candidate was the only serious one left. Stratford a good option if they run three different shows in all three of the theatres, say over a weekend, Friday, and two on Saturday. The straight runs might be better for actors and attract , dare I say it, bigger names. They can commit for the time and then toddle off. I was assuming that next year the Swan won’t be reopened and The Other Place never will reopen.
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Post by cirque on Sept 4, 2022 15:00:00 GMT
Swan has opening pencilled in.
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Post by lichtie on Sept 4, 2022 15:05:04 GMT
The Other Place is reopening next month for the latest Mischief thing.
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 17:20:42 GMT
The Other Place is reopening next month for the latest Mischief thing. I don’t call that opening. I call this opening: THE OTHER PLACE (2001) A Russian in the Woods (Peter Whelan) The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Martin McDonagh) The Prisoners Dilemma (David Edgar)
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 17:21:50 GMT
Swan has opening pencilled in. Let’s see. Building works traditionally overrun (and cost more).
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Post by richardh on Sept 4, 2022 17:58:25 GMT
March reopening is the plan for The Swan, according to an RSC staff member last week.
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Post by cirque on Sept 4, 2022 17:59:40 GMT
Mischief. What on Earth is that all about.
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Post by cavocado on Sept 4, 2022 18:01:34 GMT
They're announcing their spring season in the next couple of weeks, so it will be interesting to see if the Swan is reopening as promised - I think they said March 2023.
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Post by Jon on Sept 4, 2022 19:11:21 GMT
I'm sure the usual suspects will be writing the RSC's obituary whoever is announced as AD.
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 19:58:08 GMT
I'm sure the usual suspects will be writing the RSC's obituary whoever is announced as AD. And I’m sure the usual suspects will be saying “Let’s give her a chance” when it’s Whyman, who has been there nine years already. There are plenty of people who could rescue the RSC even amongst the quite short list of people who might be interested - Goold, Godwin, Warner, Church, Littler. But it’s not going to be any of them is it ? All’s Well has been running for a while now yet no one here seems to have seen it yet. That’s how irrelevant they’ve become.
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Post by lichtie on Sept 4, 2022 20:21:59 GMT
Mischief. What on Earth is that all about. It's Whyman's baby isn't it? Didn't she kick it off? There have been a couple of good things amongst the forgettable tosh... But that kind of small scale drama is probably what the Other Place is best used for.
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Post by tributary on Sept 4, 2022 20:48:44 GMT
My instinct is that the new artistic director will 100% be from our current roster of British Theatre Artistic Directors. It won't be someone with a body of work of Shakespeare productions. I'm thinking either Nadia Fall, Daniel Evans, Indhu Rubasingham or Tamara Harvey. Two of these names are right. It’s not Erica.
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Post by Jan on Sept 5, 2022 6:23:15 GMT
Mischief. What on Earth is that all about. It's Whyman's baby isn't it? Didn't she kick it off? There have been a couple of good things amongst the forgettable tosh... But that kind of small scale drama is probably what the Other Place is best used for. Some of their best Shakespeare productions have been in the Other Place - the McKellen Macbeth, Simon Russell-Beale Richard III, Ben Kingsley Hamlet, Deborah Warner's King John, Katie Mitchell's Henry VI Part 3.
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Post by lynette on Sept 5, 2022 15:49:52 GMT
I'm sure the usual suspects will be writing the RSC's obituary whoever is announced as AD. And I’m sure the usual suspects will be saying “Let’s give her a chance” when it’s Whyman, who has been there nine years already. There are plenty of people who could rescue the RSC even amongst the quite short list of people who might be interested - Goold, Godwin, Warner, Church, Littler. But it’s not going to be any of them is it ? All’s Well has been running for a while now yet no one here seems to have seen it yet. That’s how irrelevant they’ve become. Seeing it end of Sept. Couldn’t get there earlier. 😁
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Post by cirque on Sept 15, 2022 12:21:34 GMT
A plea to new AD when in post
Please stop calling RSC the Royal Shakespeare Community……is it not a company ?
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Post by Jan on Sept 15, 2022 17:49:41 GMT
A plea to new AD when in post Please stop calling RSC the Royal Shakespeare Community……is it not a company ? No. It isn't. Doran made it quite clear when he took over he was de-emphasising the company aspect - one of the few promises that he kept. I heard vague rumours about Daniel Evans for this job - I wouldn't be opposed to that. Incidentally, why on earth is it taking so long to appoint somebody ? It is absurd - we have had a new PM and a new Monarch installed in the time they have been deliberating.
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Post by cirque on Sept 16, 2022 15:47:17 GMT
i heard too Daniel Evans......should know soon.lots of rumours but thats all.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 16, 2022 17:47:16 GMT
Wouldn’t any one of those four names have needed to give notice on their current directorships though? It would be bad form to just jump ship so swiftly, wouldn’t it?
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