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Post by zahidf on Oct 20, 2021 9:47:42 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase There's no such thing as "just" when it comes to exponential growth. 10% increase per week is 50% per month or 144 times as many (14400%) per year. Don't take my word for it. Work it out.
And yes, I know there are people reading this who are thinking "Ridiculous; it can't possibly get that bad", but that's the problem. Mathematically it can get that bad, and in fact mathematically it must. Exponential growth doesn't stop by itself. The only choice we have is to take action to stop it or to let it be stopped by running out of people. There's no magic that will come along and fix things for us.
Well it wont. At the moment its hitting mainly the unvaccinated. It well then start going down once theyve been infected and the virus runs out of people to infect. Its not exponential until infinity. Its basically been going up and down the last 2 months. this is just the up phase
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Post by zahidf on Oct 19, 2021 17:34:04 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase and looks like it will be going down more when more boosters are done. It's the tail end of the pandemic. Winter won't be great but as long as you get a booster and flu shot, should fingers crossed be ok
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Post by zahidf on Oct 19, 2021 12:57:23 GMT
The Henry's were always being trailed as coming back next year (but not the bit they did "in rehearsal"). What is odd, and I suppose it may still happen, is that Richard III is not being staged with the Henry VI plays - it makes artistic sense and it boosts attendance at the Henry's which don't sell well as stand-alone plays. I've seen the Henry VI plays four times but never in isolation to Richard III. Also the very fact they have left Richard III till right to the end of the complete cycle with Henry VI suggests that they had it in mind. Who is playing Richard in the Henry VI plays ? Tennant seems the obvious one to play Richard 3rd. Maybe waiting for his availability.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 18, 2021 16:21:13 GMT
There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures If booster jabs don’t speed up the evidence from Israel suggest they might well get close. That's not what the evidence from Israel says. Things may get worse than they are now but we won't be getting 35,000 people in the hospital because of covid.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 18, 2021 15:49:28 GMT
And with the pace of the booster and school rollouts it’s easily foreseeable that deaths and hospitalisations by Christmas will be scarely close to last year. There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures
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Post by zahidf on Oct 14, 2021 10:40:12 GMT
8th Decebemer to 8th January. Show centres around Daisy
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Post by zahidf on Oct 14, 2021 10:00:08 GMT
Belfast and Phantom of the Open were ace yesterday
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Post by zahidf on Oct 12, 2021 23:36:39 GMT
I saw all my friends hate me the next day at the Odeon. Was fun!
I've had a blast this LFF so far. Really loved boiling point and encounter at the Prince Charles, have phantom of the open and Belfast tomorrow to look forward to.
I really liked the feast as well, Welsh Language horror, and Hinterland
I didn't much enjoy true things, decent central performance but the story wasn't that interesting.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 12, 2021 9:54:42 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Oct 10, 2021 16:10:36 GMT
Got a free upgrade from the Grand circle to the stalls for this.
Enjoyed it a lot. Well worth watching, esp if you're a wolf Hall fan
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Post by zahidf on Oct 8, 2021 9:27:36 GMT
Ralph Fiennes will lead a new play by David Hare at the Bridge Theatre, titled Straight Line Crazy.
With designs by Bob Crawley and casting by Robert Sterne, the show will see Fiennes play influential New York Official Robert Moses, who cast a long shadow over the city's politics.
Nicholas Hytner will direct the piece, which runs from 16 March to 18 June 2022. Further cast and creatives are to be revealed.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 7, 2021 23:27:00 GMT
Maybe less is more? I enjoyed it a lot at the new diorama at 75 minutes. The extra hour seems to have made it worse.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 7, 2021 16:40:03 GMT
Legally blonde?.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 6, 2021 8:52:10 GMT
If anyone's waiting for the public booking at 10.30am today, it's already open - I've just booked. Thanks! bargain preview tickets sorted for this and Folk
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Post by zahidf on Oct 6, 2021 8:18:06 GMT
Just noticed its 3 hours long!
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Post by zahidf on Oct 4, 2021 22:47:22 GMT
Looking forward to this, have my ticket for last night in Soho which I cannot wait for. Anyone else going to see anything at LFF ? I was tempted by the French Dispatch Phantom of the open, Riz Ahmed in Encounter, 'all my friends hate me' and king Richard for me.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 4, 2021 13:39:37 GMT
That will come as a surprise to the Young Vic. I was sitting next to a 13-year old at the weekend and there were no warnings about depictions of extreme knife violence, or any warnings at all. And we were sitting almost within lunging distance, in the second row. The Young Vic is about as en pointe on current trends as anywhere.
Has a show warning on the website www.youngvic.org/whats-on/hamlet-cush-jumboAlso, id say thats different to themes of R and J, which features suicide fairly heavily.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 4, 2021 12:35:24 GMT
The kerfuffle over the recent R&J was not thr focus on youth violence or anything else in the play. It was the warnings about the play featuring suicide and the provision of support line numbers to audience members Providing content warnings on a piece that old and well known does seem unnecessary to me. It is actions like that which feel very well-meaning on the part of the theatre that will provoke remarks from certain media outlets. Perhaps that is what the Globe wanted. It is certainly what the Globe should have expected. I genuinely do not believe that warnings are necessary on a piece like R&J. New writing is different. But a 400+ year old play that has been performed in every part of the world and adapted into every conceivable art form cannot come as a surprise to audience members at the Globe. 30 seconds on Google tells you whether or not you would find the content genuinely triggering. But... even that doesn't sound like a reason why they should be lambasted tbh. It may help people in the audience who connect with the show and who have those feelings, and need support in some way. A lot of people will have their first R and J experience at the globe, and not everyone will read up about plays beforehand A well meaning resource being offered to their audience members doesn't make them 'woke central and captured by the radical left' ( not that you're saying that i appreciate!). Most theatres nowadays offer content warnings and trigger warnings. I think thats positive overall.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 3, 2021 10:26:29 GMT
This is now 20 minutes! I thought it was great overall. Won't say too much about it but packed a lot into the short running time and was surprisingly funny. Worth a watch though I wouldn't go out of you're way given the length..
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Post by zahidf on Oct 2, 2021 17:51:18 GMT
Mirror and the light in London seems to be a hit. And comedy of errors has had some great reviews.
Hopefully they can back on track for next year. A strong RSC is good for the theatre infrastructure in this country and I find it sad they've done so little in the last year.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 2, 2021 15:59:30 GMT
Cases down on a 7 day basis today. Back in decline. Considering we don't have any mitigations at present, that's good news...
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Post by zahidf on Oct 2, 2021 11:27:50 GMT
I think if someone complains about a theatre being 'Woke' without qualifying why they feel that or giving examples, then it's fair for other posters to question that.
'Woke' seems to have been appropriated from being a positive phase by black activists, to being used by bores like Piers Moron being contrarian. It's fine to criticise aspects of the globes programme of course but using the term 'woke' isnt particularly illuminating
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Post by zahidf on Oct 2, 2021 7:18:38 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me to see David Tennant back for one of the plays
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Post by zahidf on Oct 1, 2021 10:30:09 GMT
Im going to this on Sat, as i am watching As God Is in the evening
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Post by zahidf on Oct 1, 2021 6:09:13 GMT
Its a one woman play, so a big ask for her, but it looks very interesting and they are promising affordable tickets during the run according to the article.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 29, 2021 9:44:07 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Sept 27, 2021 10:32:40 GMT
Cast.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 26, 2021 18:48:05 GMT
Tom Fletcher and Amy Dowden have both tested positive for COVID and won’t be performing this Saturday. But sounds like they will be back the week after. Probably due to those 2 anti vax dancers risking the show.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 25, 2021 21:34:05 GMT
Relatively Speaking is really good, recommended if you like that sort of thing. I saw it a few days ago. Lots of fun!
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Post by zahidf on Sept 25, 2021 8:03:11 GMT
Is there a theatre in central London that hasn't lost its spark during this pandemic? The Almeida? ( Maybe Macbeth will be good) The Royal Court? ( God knows they're trying) The Donmar ( the four cast Constellations was a masterstroke but what's happening in the main house?) Hampstead (at least they had the Tom Wells play) - my point is that they're all struggling with what to program, (don't get me started on The National - Paradise? ) who is their audience? Do they program to challenge their audience, to cater to them? Is the audience even going to be there? All of these theatres are now in the process of trying to find a way to balance staying in business and evolving their repertoire and staffing - the Globe is just part of an overall syndrome that is affecting everyone who not only loves theatre but who works in it. So, yes, the Globe has lost its spark, but they're not alone. The next few years are going to be rough going for us all. Donmar is just opening up now! I think almeida will be boosted by the Macbeth, and Young Vic seems good with the hamlet. I'm hoping normal heart will do well for tbe national and old Vic gets back on track with the Christmas Carol onwards. I agree it all feels a bit weird at the moment, but once people get more used to going out, the audiences will start to come back. I think maybe they need to cast bigger names though in some instances.
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