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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 14, 2018 11:29:41 GMT
Pinter was amazing when acting in his own plays. He was "wonderfully clear" as lonlad says but also wonderfully free in sending every moment off in a different direction. He was exhilarating to watch and listen to.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 22:43:13 GMT
This year? Thought they were programmed through to the end of the year at least. Has something dropped out of the schedule? No, the Olivier programme has been announced up to Antony and Cleopatra, opening in September. So, Follies could return in late September or early October to run in rep with A&C.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 22:18:08 GMT
There's a long list of AD appointments in London of people who'd never previously directed anything at the venue (Rupert Goold at the Almeida for example) Actually, Rupert Goold had directed The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida. And he also directed American Psycho there, which was programmed by Michael Attenborough as the last show of his AD-ship. And between those two, he'd also co-produced (but not directed) Chimerica at the Almeida.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 18:59:34 GMT
Would Robert Icke be able to do anything at the Donmar that he can't already do at the Almeida?
And the Donmar is smaller than the Almeida, so a move there would be a sideways step backwards from now.
And he's got lots of directing invitations from far and wide.
The Young Vic, with its three theatres and director training programmes, etc., is a much bigger job than the Donmar.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 18:25:22 GMT
But no intervals.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 18:20:10 GMT
The NT one had three acts.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 18:17:20 GMT
Harriet Walter
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 12:21:47 GMT
To be fair to musicalmarge, every other new Lyttelton Theatre production in 2017 was American (Ugly Lies the Bone, Angels in America, Oslo, Network) so audiences must be astonished to attend one that isn't.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 11:52:59 GMT
I want Katie Hopkins to feign a Nordic identity and emigrate to Trumpland.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 10:00:38 GMT
Vicky Featherstone said yesterday that she reversed her initial decision after an hour-long conversation with Caryl Churchill.
This casts some doubt on Parsley's claim here that she changed her mind after heeding his advice.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 13, 2018 0:51:14 GMT
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 12, 2018 15:38:12 GMT
Huh? What did I say in October 2016 about the Globe's 2018 season? No, unfortunately you have to make those kind of decisions in theatre (or you should) because the new AD has to start programming a year or so ahead. The new AD, or more likely an Usher promoted to the new substitute role of Acting Interim Master of Stage, won't need much lead time to cast and rehearse actors to spout straight off the page in shared lighting. They're not going to do actual theatre after Emma Rice leaves. I wish there was a "laugh" button, i.e. you didn't agree with it but it made you laugh. The opening double bill of the first season (Hamlet and As You Like It presented by The Globe Ensemble with no director) seems to me to be closer to my prediction than to an AD starting their programming a year or so ahead. Of course, the outcome may be revelatory.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 12, 2018 13:53:57 GMT
He won’t be bringing THIS punter in from the providences! The providences are North America, aren't they?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 12, 2018 13:48:29 GMT
I finally went last night, on the last day of evening performances at my preferred local cinema.
I was the ONLY person in the cinema which made me more self-conscious than usual about laughing.
I now realise that I prefer the Annoyances of Fellow Cinemagoers to Total Isolation.
Although I was oddly embarrassed to laugh, I wept and wept - even more easily than usual.
*****
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 12, 2018 10:30:50 GMT
How did that past Take That musical do in London? Never Forget ran for about 6 months on the West End. That's not great, but not terrible either. It was a great achievement, as the show was terrible (except for the closing megamix).
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 12, 2018 10:27:28 GMT
Only on TheatreBoard would anyone suggest that a theatre shouldn't work with its Associate Artists.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 11, 2018 21:12:10 GMT
I have always wanted to see Vanessa Redgrave on stage Many who have seen her on stage still want to hear her on stage.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 11, 2018 14:24:35 GMT
Ideally, those running institutions funded primarily by the public purse should stick to the Nolan Principles: Always work with all your siblings.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 11, 2018 12:13:37 GMT
On the one hand, I'd really like to see the artistic directorship go to someone other than a white man, but on the other hand, I'm immediately wondering if someone like Michael Longhurst would be up for it. So far, every Donmar Artistic Director has previous experience - Sam Mendes (Minerva, CFT), Michael Grandage (Sheffield Theatres), Josie Rourke (Bush).
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 11, 2018 12:08:06 GMT
The new Executive Director can start before the outgoing Artistic Director leaves.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 11, 2018 11:40:33 GMT
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 11, 2018 10:50:46 GMT
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 10, 2018 19:48:32 GMT
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, can be expected now to include nudity. Well, it's in the title .
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 10, 2018 19:44:41 GMT
They should have a new category: Best Transfer from the North of England.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 10, 2018 15:06:35 GMT
The time has surely come for TheatreBoard to launch it's commercial division. Some know more than others (I'm in the latter camp), but between us we know pretty much everything, and everybody. One member can launch it. All the others can post snide comments. When it goes bust (probably on Day Two), it will be the turn of another member to launch another. And so on...
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 10, 2018 12:35:05 GMT
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 10, 2018 0:15:12 GMT
And where is the line between doing her day job and her freelance one if she's doing promotion for her own play that her employer is staging? Someone else is the PR for this play. She is the PR for other productions.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 10, 2018 0:08:34 GMT
What's most interesting, actually, is how short the entire run is -- 12 days upstairs is nothing It's equivalent to a three and a half week run because it plays twice-nightly.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 8, 2018 17:11:47 GMT
I suspect that Michelle Terry has inherited the Barrie Rutter and Blanche MacIntyre productions from Emma Rice's plans for 2018, not that it really matters whether she has or not.
Clearly the first two productions, by The Globe Ensemble, weren't planned by anyone.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 8, 2018 11:52:07 GMT
Still in the scheme of Cardiff theatres it beats being jammed against a wall in the tiny New Theatre foyer. Believe it or not, the New Theatre is now a vast improvement on their pre-1987 foyers and bars which were in tiny rooms with everyone clambering over each other and crushing through the doors.
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