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Post by altamont on Oct 30, 2016 11:40:05 GMT
Very impressed indeed with the setting - the play not so much. It promised much. but I think in the end failed to deliver. Would have liked to see more of Hope Davis' character
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Post by altamont on Oct 29, 2016 19:32:18 GMT
Indeed. Very impressed with Penny Downie so far
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Post by altamont on Oct 15, 2016 22:25:33 GMT
I can't understand the negative comments above. I thought this was excellent, easily the best National production under Rufus. It's stylish, tense, hugely cinematic with great performances. As added bonuses we have a lift on stage and Liz Debicki gets her kit off....what's not to like? This was David Hare channeling Arthur Miller and American Beauty, with many parallels between Mark Strong's character and Lester Burman. Amazing staging, brilliant performances and thought provoking story. Highly recommended "and Liz Debicki gets her kit off....what's not to like?" Wow. They/Trump actually just wrote that about the play and Elizabeth Debicki. Wow. Some members of this forum think it is perfectly acceptable to make similar comments about male actors - I think those comments are just as regrettable as this one
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Post by altamont on Sept 16, 2016 15:50:19 GMT
David Horovitch and Penny Downie are the leads
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Post by altamont on Aug 10, 2016 15:10:38 GMT
The Globe have now made the Complete Walks films available on their Globe Player for the next month only. You can "rent" them for seven days. £17.99 for the lot, £4.99 for each of four bundles, or £1.50 each. After 8th September, they will no longer be available online
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Post by altamont on Jul 24, 2016 11:36:02 GMT
Cancelled last night too, from what I read on Facebook. I also wondered whether Ken could have stepped in!
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Post by altamont on Jul 23, 2016 8:47:28 GMT
The matinee this afternoon cancelled due to injury to both Madden and his understudy.
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Post by altamont on Jul 12, 2016 18:14:07 GMT
Baemax - I'm not sure this exchange has helped, but I have tried to put across my enthusiasm for the production. Your decision.....
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Post by altamont on Jul 12, 2016 9:16:51 GMT
Well, we're agreed it is enjoyable. I thought it was special and worth the money (we were in the front row), but value for money is a very subjective issue
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Post by altamont on Jul 11, 2016 17:32:12 GMT
I would disagree - a very enjoyable performance, the lovers and Puck played to perfection and fine support from the rude mechanicals (a Cornish theatre group when we saw it)
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Post by altamont on May 25, 2016 12:04:38 GMT
A slight correction - it is Henry IV not Henry VI
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Post by altamont on May 9, 2016 9:54:28 GMT
I have two tickets for the Sunday 15th performance at 13.00 - front row of the middle gallery (Bay D, A9 and A10) and they cost £40 each. We aren't able to use them now and I'll be returning them to the box office tomorrow for resale - but if anyone is interested, please let me know - they are "print at home" so I can email them.
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Post by altamont on May 5, 2016 9:13:33 GMT
Couldn't login before 10 - but then everything seemed to wake up. A couple of tickets for a matinee secured after a brief queue - still plenty left (for that performance anyway - 18th June)
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Post by altamont on Apr 23, 2016 17:16:08 GMT
We are going in a few weeks - and apparently Stephanie Cole is playing the Fool, which should be interesting
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Post by altamont on Apr 14, 2016 15:16:47 GMT
That's impressive! Out of interest, were they - and the play - any good? No, neither! I've been racking my brains to remember what it was and I can't. I think one of the absent performers was Richard someone who specialises in comic turn parts and began at the RSC (and was in The Audience, possibly as Harold Wilson), and it was (probably) written by Ron Hutchinson, and it was set in the past, and it played Theatre Royal Haymarket after a few weeks of touring previews. I think you mean this - www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/may/26/theatre.artsfeatures
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Post by altamont on Apr 7, 2016 14:36:47 GMT
The Caretaker and the Painkiller on Saturday, then Long Day's Journey into Night at the Bristol Old Vic on Monday, then All's Well that End's Well at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol on Thursday
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Post by altamont on Apr 6, 2016 18:31:08 GMT
Looking forward to seeing this in Malvern - one of three Lears for us this year. I so agree with your comment about Pennington as John of Gaunt - that was an astonishing performance, so this really sounds like something special
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Post by altamont on Mar 24, 2016 9:04:40 GMT
The last three shows I've been too - maybe not the worst behaviour reported in this thread, but each a source of annoyance...
Hamlet at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol - a woman along from me in the front row spends almost the entire play picking up her programme, rifling through it, trying to read it in the light available, putting it down, picking it up again, rinse and repeat.
The Herbal Bed in Exeter - a girl in the front row (in very clear view of the actors) spends most of the first half looking at her phone. The phone's display has been dimmed, but even so, this must be dispiriting for the actors
Don Quixote at the Swan Theatre - a chap in the front row spends the whole play chewing gum. In the second half, most of the time he has his mouth open and the sound echoes across the theatre in the quiet bits.
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Post by altamont on Mar 13, 2016 11:16:56 GMT
We thoroughly enjoyed it - although an interest in the historical period would certainly help. Laurence Fox in particular was very impressive as De Gaulle. It runs until Saturday, and certainly the evening we went, there were a few returns available. And it is a lovely little theatre
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Post by altamont on Mar 12, 2016 23:47:27 GMT
Thanks Mallardo and DC
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Post by altamont on Mar 12, 2016 16:36:23 GMT
Possibly an unanswerable question - but can anyone speculate on what the running time is likely to be? Is it a particularly long play?
Thanks
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Post by altamont on Mar 11, 2016 10:44:50 GMT
Cardiff online now working
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Post by altamont on Mar 11, 2016 10:23:12 GMT
New Theatre Cardiff seems to be sold out in less than 10 minutes...and I was poised and in the queue...damn. I'm not sure they are actually on sale yet - I can't believe that the whole run has gone so quickly
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Post by altamont on Feb 13, 2016 20:00:36 GMT
They are touring all over the country - we're seeing them in Plymouth - so you might be able to see them somewhere else....
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