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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 2, 2019 9:19:03 GMT
Teenage Dick, a new take on Richard III, by Mike Lew, is next up - starring Daniel Monks and also to be directed by Michael Longhurst
Final production is Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, to be directed by Lyndsey Turner - marking 20 years since the play was first written
Oh joy - more Churchill - just what the world needs
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Post by zahidf on Apr 2, 2019 9:20:08 GMT
Teenage Dick, a new take on Richard III, by Mike Lew, is next up - starring Daniel Monks and also to be directed by Michael Longhurst Final production is Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, to be directed by Lyndsey Turner - marking 20 years since the play was first written Oh joy - more Churchill - just what the world needs Churchill play in between Feb 6- March 12. Short run
Teenage Dick sounds fun
An interesting first season. No blockbusters it seems
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 2, 2019 9:20:12 GMT
The seasons we planned in this forum are much better tbh
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Post by zahidf on Apr 2, 2019 9:21:51 GMT
New ticket access scheme: every day, 40 tickets will be onsale for the show exactly a week later
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 2, 2019 9:31:57 GMT
New ticket scheme - sounds like a good move - as long as it is fairly operated
Having once been involved in a production of Europe, I have rather mixed feelings about that one. I can understand why you might think it was a good choice - but it isn't a play that I enjoyed. It just lacks genuine emotion for me - rather too much message and not enough heart.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 9:43:37 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Apr 2, 2019 9:51:35 GMT
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Post by crowblack on Apr 2, 2019 9:55:20 GMT
the theatre would close for a year from January 2021. Hopefully to install more women's bogs and improve the rake! I like their productions but structurally it's a really uneasy, uncomfortable space for audiences. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 2, 2019 9:59:54 GMT
A refurbishment is unlikely to be able to do much to increase the square footage available for audiences. I can't imagine there is a lot of spare space in that rather confined building. So it will be an interesting challenge to make more out of less so to speak.
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Post by zahidf on Apr 2, 2019 10:02:08 GMT
Booking dates for first 3 productions
Steel members from 10am and Copper members from noon on Tuesday 9 April 2019.
Friends from 9am (online) and 10am (telephone) on Thursday 11 April 2019.
Public Booking for Europe:
From 9am (online) and 10am (telephone) on Tuesday 16 April 2019.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 10:09:07 GMT
Oh good, so they'll still be putting on plays in that year, just in different places. Longhurst seems more convinced than Simon that there's plenty you can do with the existing space anyway!  |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 2, 2019 10:15:08 GMT
I am sure that work can be done - but it is unrealistic to expect a large expansion in space available to audiences as the building is not the Tardis!
Better to go with a modest expectations and be surprised than to wish for the world and not get it.
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Post by learfan on Apr 2, 2019 10:21:07 GMT
The seasons we planned in this forum are much better tbh Indeedio, from first glance none of these appeal to me im afraid! Looks like a def break from previous regimes. |
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Post by zahidf on Apr 2, 2019 10:32:53 GMT
Reading up on it, Appropriate and Teenage Dick should be great. I think clean break are very good, so will go to BLANK. Not 100% on Europe and will def avoid the Churchill
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 10:50:39 GMT
Oh good, so they'll still be putting on plays in that year, just in different places. Longhurst seems more convinced than Simon that there's plenty you can do with the existing space anyway! Digging around the capital project and off-site year was in the job description he applied for so presumably part of his application was to go through how he would handle that aeminternational.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Donmar-Warehouse-Executive-Producer-Application-Pack-Text-only.pdfWithin the existing space I suspect you could improve sightlines as noted above, improve toilet and bar areas, and improve circulation of people around the building (never great going down those packed stairs after a show). Presumably backstage changes too - maybe some back-office stuff has been relocated to Dryden Street to create more space. Edited to add - whatever they are doing they don't seem to have applied for planning permission yet. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 2, 2019 10:54:57 GMT
I'm sharing this as Time Out tweet it so please forgive any errors. Five productions in the first season, number 1 will be David Grieg's Europe from June 10 to August 10, directed by Longhurst himself. Number 2 will be Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate, from August 16 to October 5, directed by Ola Ince and with Monica Dolan in the cast. Number 3 will be [Blank] by Alice Birch (the premiere of a full length version), from October 11 to November 30, directed by Maria Aberg in association with Clean Break. Number 4 will be Teenage Dick by Mike Lew (modern adaptation of Richard III, played New York last autumn, in case you're frightened to google it with that title), from December 6 to February 1, directed by Longhurst. And finally number 5 will be Far Away by Caryl Churchill, from February 6 to March 12, directed by Lyndsey Turner. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited for most of these! No plays by the British classic playwrights such as Pinter, Osbourne, Raatigan, Coward or Ayckbourn. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is the Play I am looking forward to the most. eik Caryl Churchill and Lyndsey Turner has been reunited already. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 10:58:34 GMT
Having not been attracted to recent Donmar seasons there are four out of five, amazingly, which I really want to see - The Greig, Jacobs Jenkins and Birch plays and Far Away, which is one of Churchill's most fascinating and prescient works.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:05:27 GMT
Ooh, just spotted the cast for Europe: Billy Howle, Kevork Malikyan, Faye Marsay, Stephen Wight, and Shane Zaza. Not bad!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:15:46 GMT
Oooh lovely, I rather liked what I saw of Billy Howle in 'MotherFatherSon'. I thought his performance wasn't bad either. Fnar. And hel- lo Shane Zaza.  |
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Post by david on Apr 2, 2019 11:25:37 GMT
Plenty of interest in the stuff announced. As priority booking is on the same day as the NT booking, it’s going to be a busy morning on the 11th April. Credit card on standby I think.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:27:40 GMT
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Post by crowblack on Apr 2, 2019 11:31:00 GMT
whatever they are doing they don't seem to have applied for planning permission yet. As it's a block, maybe they can knock through and spread out into one of the spaces on either side? |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 2, 2019 11:34:18 GMT
And lynette 's favourite director. Boom! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:37:38 GMT
whatever they are doing they don't seem to have applied for planning permission yet. As it's a block, maybe they can knock through and spread out into one of the spaces on either side? Given the massive changes happening to the space on the left of the Donmar (which I think is now going to be a food court, and will have a roof terrace) I did wonder if that might be the case. |
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Post by Jon on Apr 2, 2019 11:45:23 GMT
Wonder if the 2021 thing may involve the new Nimax space? I don’t think that is opening until late 2021-early 2022 |
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