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Post by kathryn on Jun 27, 2018 10:03:12 GMT
Seeing what turned out to be the dress rehearsal and was meant to be the first preview of Groundhog Day is one of the highlights of my theatre-going life.
The atmosphere was incredible - in part because of the chance that it might all grind to a halt. I wasn't expecting it to be a special experience - I originally tired for a ticket later in the run - but I can certainly understand why fans of something would choose a first preview to get that kind of experience, having been there for it.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 27, 2018 10:16:22 GMT
I can’t wait for the first preview of the new Company.
Although I prefer to go go at the end of previews. Often cheaper, cast are still fresh and an air of excitement.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 15:29:08 GMT
If it's not for you, then it's not for you, but that doesn't mean other people are wrong or needlessly competitive if they do want to get in as early as possible. Did I say other people were wrong for wanting to be there first? No. I said I didn't understand the mentality behind the need to be at the first preview or the first week as if the show is going to vanish immediately afterwards when it'll still be there in a few months (or if it's lucky, years time), albeit with cuts/script changes. But then again, I'm a student from South Wales; I can't afford to have the experience of attending a first preview because everything has to be planned meticulously in advance (travel, tickets etc), and since hotels are crazy expensive most of the time, I'm limited to matinees unless I have the extra cash to spend on a hotel which is rare. So I stand corrected in that respect; I haven't had the experience, so I can't possibly know. |
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Post by kathryn on Jun 28, 2018 11:29:50 GMT
There’s a lot of bullsh*tting involved in the movie-marketing-news industrial complex, and people really should try and apply some common sense before getting themselves worked up over headlines.
If a tabloid says it has a Bond casting exclusive then names the star of the latest Sunday night TV drama, it’s very likely to be bullsh*t. Every male star of a popular Sunday night TV drama series has been linked to Bond at some point. Daniel Craig is actually doing the next film, so all of those stories were made up.
If an actor on a press tour ‘lets slip’ some detail about the film in a press interview, it’s probably not a truly a ‘spoiler’ and it was likely stage-managed by the PR team. Ditto ‘accidentally’ revealing a poster or a the next film’s title on social media.
People are, in general, far too spoiler-sensitive about the big blockbuster franchises. Most of what people call ‘spoilers’ don’t actually spoil your enjoyment of a film.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 28, 2018 14:22:49 GMT
I utterly loathe this weather. When I looked at the Met Office website just now & saw that every day for the next week is forecast to be 25-26 degrees I wanted to weep. I'm longing for a nice frost.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 14:33:13 GMT
SAAAAAAAAAME. And before anyone says "oh but you'll be complaining when it's cold and rainy again", I've challenged every single friend or family member who's said that to me to remember a time when I have greeted the cold or the rain with anything other than sincere joy, and they've all failed so far. I'm a big fan of *proper* British summer weather, and I'm very consistent about it too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 15:26:26 GMT
I utterly loathe this weather. I drove over to Bicester to do some shopping a couple of days ago. I had to put sunscreen on before setting off and had to stop on the way back to apply more because I could feel my arms starting to become crispy. I like spring. Spring is nice. I think we should consider ways to reduce the axial tilt of our planet so we don't have summer and winter any more. 23° is a bloody stupid tilt for a planet. We should do better. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 28, 2018 16:04:54 GMT
I drove over to Bicester to do some shopping a couple of days ago. I had to put sunscreen on before setting off and had to stop on the way back to apply more because I could feel my arms starting to become crispy. I like spring. Spring is nice. I think we should consider ways to reduce the axial tilt of our planet so we don't have summer and winter any more. 23° is a bloody stupid tilt for a planet. We should do better. We hardly even got any spring this year. It seemed to go straight from snow in March to 27 degrees in April. |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 28, 2018 16:45:41 GMT
I lived in the north of Tenerife for many years and it really had the most perfect climate. No real seasons and like spring all year round.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 28, 2018 18:31:04 GMT
I lived in the north of Tenerife for many years and it really had the most perfect climate. No real seasons and like spring all year round. Isn't it about 20 degrees year-round though? That's too warm for me. My ideal temperature is 10-15. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 28, 2018 18:54:04 GMT
I’m an Autumnal kind of bear.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 19:06:16 GMT
I love this weather (aside from the 40 minutes a day I spend on the Tube) - reminds me of living in Asia when I was only ever cold inside shopping centres, and bonus is that here is a lot less humid than Asia!
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Post by alece10 on Jun 28, 2018 19:37:30 GMT
I lived in the north of Tenerife for many years and it really had the most perfect climate. No real seasons and like spring all year round. Isn't it about 20 degrees year-round though? That's too warm for me. My ideal temperature is 10-15. If it gets too warm you can always go up Mount Teide which is covered in snow in the winter so probably more to your liking. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 28, 2018 20:03:05 GMT
If it gets too warm you can always go up Mount Teide which is covered in snow in the winter so probably more to your liking. I've been up it, in December 2015. There was only a very small patch of snow right at the top. We didn't go right up to the summit but when we got out of the coach, in an area with rock formations, it was absolutely boiling! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 20:10:11 GMT
I really dislike this sort of weather, I’m happiest with beautiful damp autumn days, a foot or two of snow in winter, or, if pushed, bright crisp blue skies with the temperature below freezing. At the moment I just want it to be over, every day is draining.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 28, 2018 20:43:05 GMT
I wonder how all these tattooed folk will look in years to come when tatts are no longer fashionable and the body has gone south When have tattoos themselves ever been unfashionable, though? They've been around since people figured out how to poke ink into skin. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 20:44:47 GMT
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Post by mistressjojo on Jun 29, 2018 1:50:58 GMT
I lived in the north of Tenerife for many years and it really had the most perfect climate. No real seasons and like spring all year round. Isn't it about 20 degrees year-round though? That's too warm for me. My ideal temperature is 10-15. That's winter in Sydney Dawnstar. |
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 29, 2018 12:12:08 GMT
When I popped into the library to read The Stage, all the old men who live there were wearing 'just' five layers and 'only' one coat, so it must be hot!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 12:15:53 GMT
I love this weather. I've got a great pair of legs.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 17:04:20 GMT
I’m incredibly proud to be ’English’ (whatever that means) and I couldn’t see myself living anywhere else but England. As much as I love to travel, and to see other places in the world, I always get a lump in my throat when I see the green fields and the greyish skies again.
So why do I hate the English flag so much?
Probably because it’s associated with football more than anything else (apart from the odd church which’ll fly it around St George’s Day) - those naff things flapping on the sides of even naffer cars, great ugly things hanging limply on endless pebble-dashed houses, and stuck right across the windows of ‘Favorite Chicken’ and now even our local Indian restaurants...
Is that the only time we’re proud?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 19:14:59 GMT
I’m incredibly proud to be ’English’ (whatever that means) and I couldn’t see myself living anywhere else but England. As much as I love to travel, and to see other places in the world, I always get a lump in my throat when I see the green fields and the greyish skies again. So why do I hate the English flag so much? Probably because it’s associated with football more than anything else (apart from the odd church which’ll fly it around St George’s Day) - those naff things flapping on the sides of even naffer cars, great ugly things hanging limply on endless pebble-dashed houses, and stuck right across the windows of ‘Favorite Chicken’ and now even our local Indian restaurants... Is that the only time we’re proud? The English flag means little to me although Englishness, and how it affects arts, landscape etc., is very much a part of me. Even then it’s secondary to being British though, the shared history with the Welsh, Scots and Irish being much stronger (unless you are hundreds of years old). Given the disasters being wrought through separatism and the creation of division I worry at those who claim to be English not British. The next stop being, what? Northern not Southern? City not country? It’s blame culture writ large, where another part of an organisation is ‘the problem’. |
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Post by kathryn on Jul 1, 2018 9:38:37 GMT
Work presented in an Elizabethan replica playhouse should not be interchangeable with work created for the National theatre* or the Old Vic.
Work presented by a theatre company with funding specifically for theatre rooted in the South West should not be interchangeable with work created for the National Theatre or the Old Vic, or Shakespeare’s Globe.
I don’t care how ‘innovative’ and ‘trendy’ you are, nor do I care what your gender or class background is, if you are accepting money from people to do a specific job, you should do that job.
Following your own artistic vision to do whatever you want wherever you want is great, being true to yourself is great, bravo - as long as you’re paying for it yourself.
*ideally, work created for the National Theatre should be created for one of its specific stages!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jul 1, 2018 9:44:56 GMT
Pineapple on pizza. Whoever decided to make it a thing needs to be hung, drawn and quartered.
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Post by alece10 on Jul 1, 2018 9:57:27 GMT
Pineapple on pizza. Whoever decided to make it a thing needs to be hung, drawn and quartered. Proud to say it's my favourite topping. Add a sprig of rocket to bring it into thw 21st century. |
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