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Post by Jan on Jan 24, 2017 15:34:50 GMT
Anyone seen it yet ?
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 24, 2017 17:01:51 GMT
I like Chekhov and am due another 3 sisters but the blurb for this did nothing for me especially after carcrash at the young vic a few years back!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 24, 2017 18:30:23 GMT
You London folk really are super-served. What with this and The Lower Depths and goodness knows what else. Jan, please report back when you've seen it!
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Post by Jan on Jan 25, 2017 9:48:56 GMT
I like Chekhov and am due another 3 sisters but the blurb for this did nothing for me especially after carcrash at the young vic a few years back! I liked the Young Vic one. The one I really really disliked was the Southwark Playhouse one set in Dubai (Anya Reiss responsible for that hatchet job). |
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Post by Jan on Jan 29, 2017 10:55:23 GMT
This is OK. Straightforward production with no gimmicks (apart from the crass curtain call music). Superior fringe standard production. The version by Tracy Letts isn't anything special though, they might as well have saved some money and used one of the standard texts.
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Post by bee on Jan 29, 2017 12:18:08 GMT
I saw this on Friday night. I thought it was pretty decent, well-acted by a mainly young cast. Nothing particularly ground-breaking or memorable but well worth a visit if you’re a Chekov fan. Like Jan Brock I was somewhat baffled by The Clash at the end. Not sure what we were supposed to take from that.
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 29, 2017 12:45:20 GMT
Doesnt sound like worth coming down from Worcestershire!
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Post by Jan on Jan 29, 2017 13:37:09 GMT
Doesnt sound like worth coming down from Worcestershire! No it isn't. Took me 40 minutes to get there which was about OK. The director Phil Willmott has been working at this level of fringe theatre for years, his productions are always OK but no more. |
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 29, 2017 14:13:22 GMT
This is OK. Straightforward production with no gimmicks (apart from the crass curtain call music). Superior fringe standard production. The version by Tracy Letts isn't anything special though, they might as well have saved some money and used one of the standard texts. Is it in an American setting with American accents? It may be that Phil Willmott was angling for a transfer to the NT? |
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Post by Jan on Jan 29, 2017 14:33:20 GMT
This is OK. Straightforward production with no gimmicks (apart from the crass curtain call music). Superior fringe standard production. The version by Tracy Letts isn't anything special though, they might as well have saved some money and used one of the standard texts. Is it in an American setting with American accents? It may be that Phil Willmott was angling for a transfer to the NT? Quite radically it was set in a Russian town 1000 miles from Moscow. However the adapter Tracy Letts (who turns out to be a bloke) is American. |
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 29, 2017 15:00:15 GMT
Oh well, that's the end of any hopes of an NT transfer.
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