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Post by martin1965 on Dec 30, 2017 22:16:38 GMT
Was wondering what role Rylance could play, he will play Lear one day but that was obvs on this year so Prospero seems likely. Terry will presumably play one lead role, Rosalind? Surely it’ll be another 10 years or so till we get Rylance’s Lear? Prospero is a good shout! Doubt it will be that long but you never know! |
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Post by zahidf on Dec 30, 2017 22:56:42 GMT
Terry in Hamlet?
rylance as titus andronicus or timons of athens?
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 31, 2017 16:11:50 GMT
Terry in Hamlet? rylance as titus andronicus or timons of athens? Oooh good shout! Timon with Rylance would be interesting. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 7:06:25 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 4, 2018 7:38:54 GMT
Just seen it on Facebook. Hmmm, interesting, she clearly wants to be a new broom.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 11:31:15 GMT
Seems easier to capture the announcement in a single thread at this stage. More news - - Same ensemble will perform Hamlet and As You Like It, this cast includes Michelle Terry - "A tour of eight actors will perform The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night, directed by Brendan O’Hea. Audiences will be able to choose which one will be performed " - "New writing on the #Globe2018 stage will be Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia, based on the life of ‘the dark lady of the sonnets’ Emilia Bassano, and Matt Hartley’s Eyam, about a Derbyshire village beset by the plague in 1665" - Loves Labours Lost in the Sam Wanamaker Full details of the season - www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/michelle-terry-announces-inaugural-shakespeares-globe-seasonProductions are now on the Globe website - booking dates: Members Advance priority booking for Best Friends & Patrons opens Monday 8 January, 10.00am. Priority booking for Friends opens Monday 15 January, 10.00am. Public booking opens Monday 29 January, 10.00am. Like the way they use the new logo on the production images |
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Post by kathryn on Jan 4, 2018 11:42:45 GMT
Wow, the audience picking the play - wonder how that will go down with audiences?! Surely Twelfth Night is going to win most nights? And will anyone manage to see all 3 productions?
Excited by Rylance returning to the Globe for Iago. Even the new stuff sounds intriguing!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 11:51:31 GMT
Wow, the audience picking the play - wonder how that will go down with audiences?! Surely Twelfth Night is going to win most nights? And will anyone manage to see all 3 productions? On the Globe site they have a listing for all three touring productions, and a separate one for "Voter's Choice" so presumably there are fixed performances of each as well as the audience selection? Agree it looks like an exciting season. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 11:56:56 GMT
Looks like an enticing season! I might even be tempted back there after a few years absence (which I'm at pains to point out was nothing to do with Rice's tenure but a lack of my time in London aligning with any 'must sees' for me at The Globe)
Also I love the new logo, and the website seems much more user-friendly after it's revamp too. Huzzah. (Saw lots of bitching about the 'cost' of the re-brand on FB, well if it includes a more user-friendly website surely that's an investment...anyhoo people people)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 12:22:52 GMT
Did @xanderl design the new logo? It looks suspiciously like his avatar . . . .
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 4, 2018 12:31:43 GMT
Didnt think it that exciting. Will prob book for Othello. Scrolling through the site i was excited to see extremely rare performance of Middleton's Game at Chess in December. Will have to go to that!
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Post by peggs on Jan 4, 2018 12:50:47 GMT
Ohhh exciting, think i'll be booking and telling myself it's cheap and ignoring all the train fare. The actual performance dates aren't out yet are they, or have I missed them on the new site?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 13:25:17 GMT
Did @xanderl design the new logo? It looks suspiciously like his avatar . . . . I'm going to sue. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 13:37:42 GMT
The Voter's Choice thing sounds pretty annoying to be honest. I can see an argument for it being a proper test for the cast and adding a real frisson of excitement not knowing what play you're about to see, but the Globe's been working hard for twenty years to be considered a "real theatre", not just some tourist nonsense where you tick "see a Shakespeare at the Globe" off your bucket list. The idea that you could see any of three plays sort of goes along with the idea that it doesn't really matter what play you see, and I worry that this devalues the enterprise as a whole. Okay, maybe you're time-poor and incredibly indecisive so this is a great way to book a performance without the pressure of having to immediately choose which play to book, but it's more likely that the auditorium will be filled with the kind of people who are constantly at the Globe anyway (and the less said about some of the regulars, the better) and the kind of people who don't really care about the theatre, they're just working through their London tourist to-do list. I for one am going to be hoping for fixed performance dates alongside the Voter's Choice dates so I know I'm seeing what I want to see (each play once with no risk whatsoever that I'll be seeing Merchant Of Venice three times in a row).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 13:40:43 GMT
I agree @baemax as much as I'm sure they're all good, those of us travelling a bit of a distance would usually like to know what we're getting with some certainty. And IMO it also rings a bit gimmicky and touristy.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 13:57:10 GMT
More Rylance - www.westminster-abbey.org/press/news/2018/january/sir-mark-rylance-returns-to-westminster-abbeySir Mark Rylance will return to Westminster Abbey with a company of actors bringing the words of William Shakespeare to life for six special performances in April. All Places that the Eye of Heaven Visits will take place on the evenings of Thursday 26th, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th April, and will feature a cast of 23 actors from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. During the performances, audience members will move through the Abbey, encountering the actors performing extracts from some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and poetry. ‘Like the best of birthday presents…not what you expected, but just what you wanted.’ - The Times on 2017's event Tickets, priced £37.00, will be on sale from Monday 29th January via the Shakespeare’s Globe box office. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 13:58:44 GMT
Just digging into the concept of the Globe Ensemble presenting Hamlet and As You Like It. Apparently Terry is trying to change the production hierarchy but there are also two co-directors, which seems like two different approaches fighting against each other, You don’t dilute directorial power by having two of them, you double it. Co-directors is one of those things that sounds nice too but, in practice, complicates matters more than anything. I’m presuming she sees this more like a devised theatre company but a McBurney tends to take up control anyway. It’s like communism or libertarianism, in the end someone starts telling everyone what to do. It’s very brave, though, to do it before anything else.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 14:09:35 GMT
More Rylance - www.westminster-abbey.org/press/news/2018/january/sir-mark-rylance-returns-to-westminster-abbeySir Mark Rylance will return to Westminster Abbey with a company of actors bringing the words of William Shakespeare to life for six special performances in April. All Places that the Eye of Heaven Visits will take place on the evenings of Thursday 26th, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th April, and will feature a cast of 23 actors from Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. During the performances, audience members will move through the Abbey, encountering the actors performing extracts from some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and poetry. ‘Like the best of birthday presents…not what you expected, but just what you wanted.’ - The Times on 2017's event Tickets, priced £37.00, will be on sale from Monday 29th January via the Shakespeare’s Globe box office. They did this last year. It was a rather lovely evening out, though at the price I'm not necessarily in a hurry to repeat the experience. |
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Post by kathryn on Jan 4, 2018 14:42:45 GMT
Ooh, missed it last year so will have to try and go this time.
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Post by Boob on Jan 4, 2018 15:33:46 GMT
All sounds very dreary. Delighted to save my cheeks the torture of a visit there this year.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 4, 2018 16:13:28 GMT
Add me to the list of those who are dubious about the voting for which play to be done. Audience choice is all very well for improvisation, where you're getting something new no matter what options are voted for, but I find it hard to believe many people are equally interested in seeing all 3 plays, unless they're tourists who are visiting the Globe purely to tick it off the list. Personally I don't want to see Merchant of Venice again yet, having seen it at the Globe in 2015, & I only enjoy Taming of the Shrew in its musical incarnation so I wouldn't be booking for a performance when I'd only have a 1 in 3 chance of seeing a play that I actually want to see again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 16:28:07 GMT
How are the audience going to decide? Will it be a clap-o-meter?
I'm willing to bet that they decide which play they're going to do beforehand and just pretend that that was the one that got the most votes. Just like in 'Mary Stuart'. I don't believe for one minute that Lia Williams and Juliet Stevenson didn't know who was playing Mary and who was playing Betty each night.
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Post by lynette on Jan 4, 2018 16:52:39 GMT
Agree, Ryan.
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 4, 2018 20:14:57 GMT
I like the rebrand and some of the ideas but the idea of dragging Rylance back is a bit tiresome and slightly goes against the feeling of a new start, looking forward, etc and seems a bit of a 'Oh alright then' to everyone who complained firstly at Dromgoole's changes a decade ago and Rice's changes more recently. Rylance is a great actor but he (and we) have moved on from his Globe days, I feel personally.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 5, 2018 9:43:46 GMT
The Voter's Choice thing sounds pretty annoying to be honest. I can see an argument for it being a proper test for the cast and adding a real frisson of excitement not knowing what play you're about to see, but the Globe's been working hard for twenty years to be considered a "real theatre", not just some tourist nonsense where you tick "see a Shakespeare at the Globe" off your bucket list. The idea that you could see any of three plays sort of goes along with the idea that it doesn't really matter what play you see, and I worry that this devalues the enterprise as a whole. Okay, maybe you're time-poor and incredibly indecisive so this is a great way to book a performance without the pressure of having to immediately choose which play to book, but it's more likely that the auditorium will be filled with the kind of people who are constantly at the Globe anyway (and the less said about some of the regulars, the better) and the kind of people who don't really care about the theatre, they're just working through their London tourist to-do list. I for one am going to be hoping for fixed performance dates alongside the Voter's Choice dates so I know I'm seeing what I want to see (each play once with no risk whatsoever that I'll be seeing Merchant Of Venice three times in a row). Yes. |
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