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Post by Rory on Jan 10, 2024 16:44:59 GMT
I imagine theatre wise it'll either be the DOY or the Trafalgar. Yes, it has DoY / Wessex Grove vibes
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Post by awjc on Jan 12, 2024 9:03:44 GMT
Any more good plays coming? Antigone in the Lyttelton with a very good cast An adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath coming soon too
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Post by alicechallice on Jan 12, 2024 11:53:01 GMT
Any more good plays coming? Antigone in the Lyttelton with a very good cast An adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath coming soon too What is it with the National reviving plays soon after their last version of it? Janet McTeer's Phaedra was only 14 years after Helen Mirren's. Now an Antigone only 12 years after the Jodie Whittaker/Christopher Eccleston production? Is Grapes of Wrath at the National too? They UK premiered the previous major adaptation by Frank Galati. You can't tell me they aren't other Greek tragedies or classic American novels that could do with an airing.
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Post by zahidf on Jan 12, 2024 13:44:35 GMT
Mix of commercial considerations and what the cast/creatives want to do
over 10 years gap is fine IMO
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Post by awjc on Jan 12, 2024 13:47:24 GMT
Antigone in the Lyttelton with a very good cast An adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath coming soon too What is it with the National reviving plays soon after their last version of it? Janet McTeer's Phaedra was only 14 years after Helen Mirren's. Now an Antigone only 12 years after the Jodie Whittaker/Christopher Eccleston production? Is Grapes of Wrath at the National too? They UK premiered the previous major adaptation by Frank Galati. You can't tell me they aren't other Greek tragedies or classic American novels that could do with an airing. In the Olivier, yes. Not sure whether it's the Frank Galati version... I agree it feels quite soon to be returning to Antigone. There's plenty of other Greek tragedies to look at!
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Post by Rory on Jan 12, 2024 16:01:32 GMT
Could the Grapes of Wrath be the Ben Whishaw play based on a book?
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Post by alicechallice on Jan 12, 2024 16:32:20 GMT
Could the Grapes of Wrath be the Ben Whishaw play based on a book? I suppose he'd be good casting for Tom Joad.
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Post by princeton on Jan 12, 2024 17:31:19 GMT
The Grapes of Wrath at the National was 35 years ago, with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company cast. It only played for a couple of weeks as part of a season of productions from international theatre companies (which also included Moscow Arts and Ninagawa).
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Post by Dave B on Jan 14, 2024 10:40:19 GMT
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! Babies Starter for Ten
All west end bound per Guardian today.
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Post by Dave B on Jan 15, 2024 10:38:33 GMT
Is it just me or are there a number of theartres (Young Vic, Old Vic, Royal Court) who have really slowed down/staggered their announcements? No season of work or more than one show announced after the current show.
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Post by zahidf on Jan 15, 2024 11:05:56 GMT
Is it just me or are there a number of theartres (Young Vic, Old Vic, Royal Court) who have really slowed down/staggered their announcements? No season of work or more than one show announced after the current show. Feels like for the Royal Court, they are in a holding pattern until the new season is announced/ready from the new artistic team Old vic maybe feels like they are developing less shows and just waiting for something hot to come in
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Post by zahidf on Jan 17, 2024 8:44:21 GMT
On the young vic and Royal court
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Post by theatrenerd on Jan 17, 2024 22:15:38 GMT
Erm Groundhog Day at the savoy ain’t happening. Mean Girls is going in there in case you missed that announcement Yeah, I had not updated the date. Is the WE transfer totally dead post Sydney? Do I delete it from the list? *Melbourne. Unless I'm mistaken, it sounds like the intention is for the Melbourne run to be strictly limited so that it can come back to the UK (it is the Old Vic production being shipped there) however it sounds more like it will tour the UK first before coming back to the West End.
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Post by parsley1 on Jan 17, 2024 22:56:21 GMT
RC won’t be announcing until March
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Post by teamyali on Jan 17, 2024 22:58:26 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Jan 18, 2024 0:46:25 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 18, 2024 16:44:11 GMT
So here I am, loitering in the foyer of the Leeds Playhouse.
The matinee of Oliver ended 15 minutes ago and the cast have come out to meet their family and friends.
A young woman, who I'm afraid I don't recognise, has been having a 'private' discussion with her agent.
"I've got you a job you're going to hate me for...Off-stage swing...It's better than it sounds...16 weeks at the Ambassadors.... You'll be covering Rebecca Hyde(?) and whoever replaces Jodie."
If only I had bigger ears!!!
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Post by Rory on Jan 18, 2024 16:49:12 GMT
So here I am, loitering in the foyer of the Leeds Playhouse. The matinee of Oliver ended 15 minutes ago and the cast have come out to meet their family and friends. A young woman, who I'm afraid I don't recognise, has been having a 'private' discussion with her agent. "I've got you a job you're going to hate me for...Off-stage swing...It's better than it sounds...16 weeks at the Ambassadors.... You'll be covering Rebecca Hyde(?) and whoever replaces Jodie." If only I had bigger ears!!! Naughty you for earwigging and then posting, TallPaul, but that's clearly about Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
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Post by Dave B on Jan 18, 2024 23:41:32 GMT
RC won’t be announcing until March Cowbois finishes on 10 Feb and nothing is set for upstairs after 25 Jan. Are they going dark for a couple of months?
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Post by zahidf on Jan 19, 2024 6:23:01 GMT
RC won’t be announcing until March Cowbois finishes on 10 Feb and nothing is set for upstairs after 25 Jan. Are they going dark for a couple of months? They have stand up comedy 15-24 march
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Post by Jan on Jan 19, 2024 8:47:55 GMT
I agree it feels quite soon to be returning to Antigone. There's plenty of other Greek tragedies to look at! Which ones ? I mean which that haven't had a high-profile revival in the fairly recent past ? Electra maybe, or Andromache.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jan 19, 2024 8:58:42 GMT
Has there been any Hecuba since Clare Higgins' twenty years ago? We could probably enjoy a revival of the Persians, Ajax or Iphigenia, but I doubt we'll see major revivals of Women of Trachis or Euripides' Helen.
I would love to see the San Wanamaker Playhouse stage one of Seneca's plays in the Elizabethan translations that influenced revenge tragedies.
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Post by Jan on Jan 19, 2024 14:07:14 GMT
Has there been any Hecuba since Clare Higgins' twenty years ago? We could probably enjoy a revival of the Persians, Ajax or Iphigenia, but I doubt we'll see major revivals of Women of Trachis or Euripides' Helen. I would love to see the San Wanamaker Playhouse stage one of Seneca's plays in the Elizabethan translations that influenced revenge tragedies. The last Hecuba I saw was Vanessa Redgrave for the RSC in 2005. Unfortunately it was very poor. Iphigenia in a very good Katie Mitchell production for the NT in 2004. Haven't ever seen the others. I agree on Seneca - he seems to be entirely overlooked despite his influence. The last play of his (not counting "inspired by") I saw was in 1988.
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Post by princeton on Jan 19, 2024 19:00:02 GMT
There was also a very loose adaptation of Hecuba by Marina Carr done by the RSC in 2015. Didn't see it - though reviews were mixed.
The Donmar production in 2004 was great. Directed by Jonathan Kent with Clare Higgins in the title role and Eddie Redmayne and Tim Pigott-Smith in the supporting cast. Higgins won the Olivier for her performance.
The 2005 RSC version was, as Jan says, a car crash. There was, however, a great deal of off-stage drama.
The production was built around Vanessa Redgrave returning to the RSC after more than 40 years. It was due to open in Stratford then to London, Washington and New York. However the Stratford performances were cancelled to allow Redgrave to recover from an operation. During the rehearsals she and the director Laurence Boswell had an almighty falling out, to the extent that she refused to be in the same room as him. So whilst he continued to direct the company, she did her own thing. They pretty much only came together in the theatre and, not unexpectedly, there was a complete disconnect between leading lady and the rest of the cast. There were also rumours of Redgrave developing her own language for her own character and occasionally delivering lines which made no sense to her fellow actors or the audience. It opened to terrible reviews (most comparing it very unfavourably to the Donmar production). Once opened, and prior to the US run, Tony Harrison, who had written the, not very good, translation, stepped in to try and pull everything together.
By the time it got to the Kennedy Centre and BAM Boswell was no longer credited as director - in fact no one was - rather there was the strange billing of: "written by and developed for its U.S. engagements by Tony Harrison". The reviews were no better.
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Post by bordeaux on Jan 20, 2024 9:49:59 GMT
Has there been any Hecuba since Clare Higgins' twenty years ago? We could probably enjoy a revival of the Persians, Ajax or Iphigenia, but I doubt we'll see major revivals of Women of Trachis or Euripides' Helen. I would love to see the San Wanamaker Playhouse stage one of Seneca's plays in the Elizabethan translations that influenced revenge tragedies. The last Hecuba I saw was Vanessa Redgrave for the RSC in 2005. Unfortunately it was very poor. Iphigenia in a very good Katie Mitchell production for the NT in 2004. Haven't ever seen the others. I agree on Seneca - he seems to be entirely overlooked despite his influence. The last play of his (not counting "inspired by") I saw was in 1988. Was that the Oedipus at the Almeida with John Shrapnel? Ted Hughes translation. Wonderful, I thought. I was remembering only yesterday the way they did the blinding - a fellow actor simply holding out a bowl of red paint and Shrapnel daubing his own eyes - and immediately you saw a man who had blinded himself.
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Post by Jan on Jan 21, 2024 11:27:11 GMT
Almeida, yes.
What I remember about that Venessa Redgrave production was she had interpolated song/dance sections probably of her own devising. Quite embarrassing. I saw her a few times in other things and she was very good.
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Post by erik24601 on Jan 22, 2024 13:57:47 GMT
I wonder what will go into Drury Lane when Frozen leaves. Such a wonderful venue but a big one to fill!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 22, 2024 14:17:19 GMT
I wonder what will go into Drury Lane when Frozen leaves. Such a wonderful venue but a big one to fill! Sweeney Todd with josh groban would be nice. Although i suspect for a very short run it were to happen.
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Post by Dave B on Jan 22, 2024 14:25:11 GMT
I wonder what will go into Drury Lane when Frozen leaves. Such a wonderful venue but a big one to fill! Does Newsies have another life? Another Disney to go in...?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 22, 2024 15:43:09 GMT
I wonder what will go into Drury Lane when Frozen leaves. Such a wonderful venue but a big one to fill! I think the west end needs a third production of Oedipus
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