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Post by theatremad on Nov 10, 2019 12:35:26 GMT
Thursday: Boy in the Dress
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Post by theatremad on Nov 5, 2019 14:33:34 GMT
This was a personal email which didn't seem automated to be fair.
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Post by theatremad on Nov 5, 2019 14:19:09 GMT
Another booking season announced either this week or next apparently Really? Thought it would be after Christmas. Oh well maybe there will be something i want to see for a change! To quote my the email I received:
"The membership will be active from today, which will allow you to take advantage of Premium member booking for our new productions due to go on sale later this month (look out for an email announcement next week)."
Which suggests deffo this side of Christmas.
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Post by theatremad on Nov 5, 2019 8:06:14 GMT
Another booking season announced either this week or next apparently
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Post by theatremad on Oct 29, 2019 15:47:03 GMT
Link doesn't want to work currently
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Post by theatremad on Oct 22, 2019 10:24:35 GMT
Saturday matinee: Assassins at Newbury
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Post by theatremad on Oct 20, 2019 9:58:12 GMT
Like the fact this is dividing people. Theatre should provoke conversation not just about the subject matter (may be being slightly inflammatory sorry).
Friend of mine who goes every first performance at the RSC hated it.
May be because I'm an archaeology graduate that I enjoyed it so much. You do not need to know the archaeology though to enjoy it
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Post by theatremad on Oct 15, 2019 12:15:30 GMT
6 so far with 6 being made in near future.
Already booked: Henry VI and Richard III at Sam Wanamaker, My Brilliant Friend and Seven Streams at NT, Hamlet at Young Vic
Booking soon: All of 2020 Summer at RSC
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Post by theatremad on Oct 15, 2019 9:19:29 GMT
Going to be processing this for a long time. Really enjoyed it, and uniformly excellent.
Staged in a clever and imaginative way, the two time lines co-exist and sometimes are on their own. Shared lines and characters pull the story together.
Some audibility issues occasionally but was only Preview 3. And the confusing choric scenes could be cut or brought down.
Brilliant use of projection too
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Post by theatremad on Oct 13, 2019 22:11:03 GMT
Just one this week:
Monday: Museum of Baghdad at RSC
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Post by theatremad on Oct 13, 2019 21:06:30 GMT
Wow, now watched this on I-player. Knew the ending but still left me shaken. Superb play
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Post by theatremad on Oct 11, 2019 9:00:41 GMT
Credit to the company would appear they are stopping and regrouping, with reduced schedule from Thurs-Sunday with Wednesday performances back in November and Tuesdays in December.
Still incorrect start time on website
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Post by theatremad on Oct 9, 2019 7:04:35 GMT
Not sure if this has been mentioned but could pair Henry VIII with the Thomas Cromwell play(s). Start with Henry VIII and follow through with all 3 of the plays of the books. Highly unlikely but hey wishful thinking At the start of current cycle Doran mentioned several groups of plays which he was planning to do together - one striking idea was he was going to do Troilus and Cressida and Romeo and Juliet as a pair with the same leads. This is a great idea and I'm not aware it has ever been done before. Of course when the time came due (no doubt) to scheduling and casting issues this was forgotten. But I'm sure he actually thinks about these things. Fair point
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Post by theatremad on Oct 8, 2019 14:23:26 GMT
That’s actually a great idea and a good way of increasing interest in a Shakespeare with a poor reputation It would, though I realise Cromwell has a walk on part in the Shakespeare, it would be fun.
Don't think anyone at the RSC would be that bright though
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Post by theatremad on Oct 8, 2019 13:29:39 GMT
Not sure if this has been mentioned but could pair Henry VIII with the Thomas Cromwell play(s). Start with Henry VIII and follow through with all 3 of the plays of the books. Highly unlikely but hey wishful thinking
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Post by theatremad on Oct 7, 2019 18:32:55 GMT
The members newsletter states Pericles marks the point at which they only have 6 left to do, Pericles they have acknowledged was not in the any folio until the Third Folio.
Which means by my reckoning we have in order of importance for me:
Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 Henry VIII All's Well That End's Well Richard III
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Post by theatremad on Oct 7, 2019 16:25:22 GMT
lynette , #We are Arrested running at the Arcola from13th Nov to 7th Dec. Great, so everyone, go. A fantastic gem of a show
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Post by theatremad on Oct 7, 2019 13:12:09 GMT
Last gripe then I'll keep quiet. My ticket clearly said 7pm start. Was in fact 7.30pm. Meaning sitting around waiting, pure money making exercise
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Post by theatremad on Oct 7, 2019 6:02:14 GMT
The RSC one came close but I was young and innocent then
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Post by theatremad on Oct 6, 2019 20:22:40 GMT
I generally toss up when reviews are in but takes a lot to return a ticket. Famous one for me was not so much a bad production or play more a lucky chance. We were due to go to Alex Jennings in Present Laughter at the NT and decided to change our tickets to a short lived production the same night called War Horse, never regretted that one.
One refund only and that was for Wolf of Wall Street. Too many reasons but I got it. Hated asking but was so angry I knew was only way to get some sort of closure
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Post by theatremad on Oct 6, 2019 16:29:27 GMT
Twice I can remember:
- Collaborators during the Olivier run, 10 mins late - Rocky Horror Picture Show, Swansea in late 90s: missed entire first half
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Post by theatremad on Oct 6, 2019 15:00:55 GMT
Sent a constructive moan email and received one back very quickly saying they were refunding. First time I've ever asked for a refund from a theatre, sad days
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Post by theatremad on Oct 6, 2019 8:38:40 GMT
Will be interested to know what others think as to me the problem is the show as much as the space
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Post by theatremad on Oct 6, 2019 7:22:27 GMT
I can't see a thread for this one.
Having seen the RSC 1998 production, I went in with high hopes for this, and ended up leaving at the interval. Too messy, people playing too many parts, and an assault on the senses.
Only highlight was an actual punter getting forcibly removed from the theatre near the start, which was a shame because it would have introduced Trouble-All quite well as a character.
The prologue was left in and felt out of place to me.
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Post by theatremad on Oct 6, 2019 7:19:14 GMT
Attempted to see this last night, the performance got cancelled at the end of the interval, on a side note this was poorly organised and they seemed to me to be more interested in making money (how ironic) than letting their punters know what was going on.
Unlike some of the other immersive theatre shows I've been to (Masque of the Red Death, The Drowned Man, the Jack the Ripper one a couple of years ago) this is very prescriptive in the way you go round, there are no amazing scenes to discover on your own, and rooms go for long periods with no-one in them and are otherwise pretty bare. Is more like the Grimm Fairy Tales show at Bargehouse in that respect. Also though I realise is part of the script, there is a little too much swearing for me, felt more Jerry Springer the Opera.
The lady playing the wife was ill last night so someone else was helping with her lines, which worked well.
Can't comment on the whole thing as didn't see it, but I won't be rushing back based on the first half.
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 11:35:26 GMT
Miles Jupp to play one of the Antipholuses
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 11:13:14 GMT
Got it wrong, Swan ends september
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 10:07:04 GMT
RST:
The Winter's Tale: Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, Director Erica Whyman imagines a world where the ghosts of fascist Europe collide with horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale, before washing up on a joyful seashore.
The Comedy of Errors: A fairytale farce of everyday miracles, mistaken identity and double vision, directed by comedy master Phillip Breen
Pericles: Blanche McIntyre returns to direct Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation, located in a familiar world of precarious journeys and treacherous alliances
SWAN
Europeana - a breathless race through the chaotic kaleidoscope of 20th century history, from the book by Patrik Ouředník. Adapted by Maria Åberg and Judith Gerstenberg. Directed by Maria Åberg
Peer Gynt - Acclaimed Swiss director Barbara Frey reimagines Ibsen’s epic European myth for the 21st century
Blindness and Seeing - One afternoon, a city’s inhabitants are suddenly overcome by an epidemic of blindness in this poetic and evocative vision for the future by Nobel Prize winning Portuguese novelist José Saramago, directed by Tiago Rodrigues
Not sure about Comedy after Provoked but Pericles and Winter's sound interesting.
I love Peer Gynt so that's a must and the rest sound fab
Sounds like the Swan finishes July which may suggest Henry VI etc goes in there
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 6:11:34 GMT
Fab news if Henry VI does work out. Even worse please not a one part one like the Globe. Winters Tale by Whyman sounds promising.
However much Mantel be fab, I think will be winter 2020 as all the big boom adaptations have been that time of year pretty much.
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Post by theatremad on Oct 3, 2019 21:27:44 GMT
At the very nice and informative Stich in Time event tonight, we were told the new season info would be with us in the next day or so. Lots of Shakespeares, there was mention of a "big period piece" that was going to involve a lot of the costume dept! Thank you Learfan. Henry VIII could be the period piece
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