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Post by d'James on Nov 22, 2016 10:30:44 GMT
Why haven't they revived 'Lettice & Lovage' yet? And why hasn't someone asked Katherine Parkinson to star? I would like to see that play, but am not really a fan of her. |
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Post by emsworthian on Nov 22, 2016 10:42:50 GMT
As a tribute to Peter Shaffer, how about "The Royal Hunt of the Sun"?
I'd like to see Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged" and "Simply Disconnected."
Also, "Enron" as I missed it both times it was on at Chichester.
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Post by profquatermass on Nov 22, 2016 14:35:44 GMT
The NT did the Royal Hunt of the Sun a few years ago. I thought it was terrible but I'm often wrong about these things.
I'd like to see Summerfolk again
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Post by Jan on Nov 22, 2016 14:42:53 GMT
"The Time of Your Life" by William Saroyan which won a Pulitzer Prize in the 1940s. There was a brilliant Howard Davies revival for the RSC 30 or so years ago. I'm not counting the fairly recent Finborough revival as it was seriously under-cast.
Actually if you scan the Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners there are quite a few on there I've never heard of at all, someone should start staging them.
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Post by barelyathletic on Nov 22, 2016 16:11:48 GMT
I'd love to see Complicite revive their 1989 production of Durrenmatt's The Visit. One of the most stunning productions I've seen at the National. And they could still have Katheryn Hunter as Claire Zachanassian. There's an entirely new audience now for this. Failing that I'd be sort of interested in seeing the Kander and Ebb musical in London (not a revival I know).
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Post by tlt on Nov 22, 2016 16:24:37 GMT
It just didn't work on its first outing, despite a great cast and director, but I would really like to see what a good fringe director, cast and crew (don't think the West End would do it unless it becomes a pet project of a really famous actor or director because of its initial reception) could do with Michael Frayn's Afterlife which I still think is a better play than reviews allowed back in 2008. Although a play which deals with public spectacle, like a lot of Frayn's drama much of it is an intimate piece which was totally dwarfed by the Lyttleton stage and huge scenery.
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 22, 2016 18:30:00 GMT
Savages by Christopher Hampton (the one set in South America)
Night and Day by Tom Stoppard in a double-bill with Hare/Brenton's Pravda
Serious Money by Carol Churchill
The Way of the World by William Congreve
Athalie by Racine
The Game of Love and Chance by Marivaux
Egmont by Goethe
Penthesilea by Kleist
The Mayor of Zalamea by Calderon
The Persians by Aeschylus
All, incidentally, plays I haven't seen except the Conjgreve.
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Post by Jan on Nov 22, 2016 18:33:21 GMT
Thomas Middleton's "Second Maid's Tragedy". Saw it on the fringe years ago but not since, it is a classic Jacobean revenge tragedy and in a good production it could be quite a horror show (necrophilia making a rare and unwelcome stage appearance).
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Post by lynette on Nov 22, 2016 21:43:47 GMT
Well, I really hope 'someone' reads this thread because it is throwing up some brilliant suggestions. I would be happy to see everything listed here.
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Post by bordeaux on Nov 22, 2016 21:59:12 GMT
Tom Stoppard's version of Schnitzler entitled Undiscovered Country. And his (Stoppard's) farcical On the Razzle adapated from the same Nestroy play that gave us The Matchmaker.
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Post by Jon on Nov 22, 2016 22:56:21 GMT
I wonder if The Coast of Utopia will ever be revived, I suspect it would be something Chichester could consider
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 23, 2016 9:57:11 GMT
Thomas Middleton's "Second Maid's Tragedy". Saw it on the fringe years ago but not since, it is a classic Jacobean revenge tragedy and in a good production it could be quite a horror show (necrophilia making a rare and unwelcome stage appearance). Yes! Any Middleton is welcome. Greg Doran gave "Hengist king of kent" a shout out a few years ago. Methinks another Swan season of redisoveries in 2018? |
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Post by bordeaux on Nov 23, 2016 10:09:56 GMT
I wonder if The Coast of Utopia will ever be revived, I suspect it would be something Chichester could consider Would be good. It got respectful reviews when it played in London at the NT, but raves in New York, I seem to recall. Either Stoppard, or the director, or both must have done something to it in the interim. I certainly remember David Hare singing its praises somewhere - have looked online but can't find the quote. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 12:30:13 GMT
I wonder if The Coast of Utopia will ever be revived, I suspect it would be something Chichester could consider Would be good. It got respectful reviews when it played in London at the NT, but raves in New York, I seem to recall. Either Stoppard, or the director, or both must have done something to it in the interim. I certainly remember David Hare singing its praises somewhere - have looked online but can't find the quote. I believe it's still the (tied) most nominated play at the Tonys (10) and the play that has won most awards (7) including Best Play, Best Director (Jack O'Brien) and Best Featured Actor (Billy Crudup) and Best Featured Actress (the divine Jennifer Ehle winning her second Tony).  |
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Post by showgirl on Nov 24, 2016 5:17:15 GMT
I've never seen any play by Dodie Smith on stage - Dear Octopus, Service, Autumn Crocus were all huge hits in their day. If you can get to Watford (short, fast journey from Euston, for those who don't know and would travel via London, and max 10-min, straightforward walk to the theatre - I go there a lot), Watford Palace Theatre are doing I Capture The Castle in spring 2017. I'm certainly going and looking forward to it. |
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Post by Jan on Nov 24, 2016 8:24:51 GMT
I wonder if The Coast of Utopia will ever be revived, I suspect it would be something Chichester could consider Would be good. It got respectful reviews when it played in London at the NT, but raves in New York, I seem to recall. Either Stoppard, or the director, or both must have done something to it in the interim. I certainly remember David Hare singing its praises somewhere - have looked online but can't find the quote. There were moans from the actors at NT, and Stoppard I think, that Trevor Nunn had not allocated enough time to rehearsals. The play was somewhat re-written for New York and had a different director. |
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Post by profquatermass on Nov 24, 2016 10:05:03 GMT
I've never seen any play by Dodie Smith on stage - Dear Octopus, Service, Autumn Crocus were all huge hits in their day. If you can get to Watford (short, fast journey from Euston, for those who don't know and would travel via London, and max 10-min, straightforward walk to the theatre - I go there a lot), Watford Palace Theatre are doing I Capture The Castle in spring 2017. I'm certainly going and looking forward to it. Thank you for letting me know. It's not a play though. It seems shocking that Britain's leading female pre-war playwright has been so completely forgotten. |
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Post by alexandra on Nov 24, 2016 10:57:57 GMT
I wonder if The Coast of Utopia will ever be revived, I suspect it would be something Chichester could consider Would be good. It got respectful reviews when it played in London at the NT, but raves in New York, I seem to recall. Either Stoppard, or the director, or both must have done something to it in the interim. I certainly remember David Hare singing its praises somewhere - have looked online but can't find the quote. I saw it in both cities and liked it very much both times, but it did work better in New York. Stoppard cut it about a bit for NY, and also they created a massive event there - you couldn't be an intelligent liberal New Yorker unless you'd seen it - and so the audience was hugely up for it and hung on every word. They also got lots of helpful written material helping them to distinguish between the 9 Nicholases and 7 Natashas, or whatever. I thought the cast was better in London (Stephen Dillane, Eve Best and Simon Day especially) but the production was better in NY; I didn't like those filmic projections that the NT were so proud of, for example. But both productions still count as highlights of my theatregoing life. |
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 24, 2016 11:27:05 GMT
Would be good. It got respectful reviews when it played in London at the NT, but raves in New York, I seem to recall. Either Stoppard, or the director, or both must have done something to it in the interim. I certainly remember David Hare singing its praises somewhere - have looked online but can't find the quote. There were moans from the actors at NT, and Stoppard I think, that Trevor Nunn had not allocated enough time to rehearsals. The play was somewhat re-written for New York and had a different director. I saw it at the NT in a trilogy day and liked it. But yes it clearly was a different beast in NY |
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 24, 2016 11:28:54 GMT
Would be good. It got respectful reviews when it played in London at the NT, but raves in New York, I seem to recall. Either Stoppard, or the director, or both must have done something to it in the interim. I certainly remember David Hare singing its praises somewhere - have looked online but can't find the quote. I saw it in both cities and liked it very much both times, but it did work better in New York. Stoppard cut it about a bit for NY, and also they created a massive event there - you couldn't be an intelligent liberal New Yorker unless you'd seen it - and so the audience was hugely up for it and hung on every word. They also got lots of helpful written material helping them to distinguish between the 9 Nicholases and 7 Natashas, or whatever. I thought the cast was better in London (Stephen Dillane, Eve Best and Simon Day especially) but the production was better in NY; I didn't like those filmic projections that the NT were so proud of, for example. But both productions still count as highlights of my theatregoing life. Yes its something they do well in NY, its in all the media! |
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Post by profquatermass on Nov 24, 2016 12:36:03 GMT
I wonder when we'll see a revival of Jerusalem
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 13:01:41 GMT
you couldn't be an intelligent liberal New Yorker unless you'd seen it and you lost all cultural credibility if you did go to see it. [just my Tom Stoppard prejudice peeking through there] |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 13:04:30 GMT
I wonder if The Coast of Utopia will ever be revived, I suspect it would be something Chichester could consider More likely, the Finborough - on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees. |
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Post by alexandra on Nov 24, 2016 14:11:00 GMT
you couldn't be an intelligent liberal New Yorker unless you'd seen it and you lost all cultural credibility if you did go to see it. [just my Tom Stoppard prejudice peeking through there] Anything that gets people reading books by and about Herzen, Bakunin and Belinsky (and I know it wasn't just me) is all right by me. |
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Post by foxa on Nov 24, 2016 22:57:47 GMT
Some really good suggestions. I wouldn't mind some more Restoration Comedy or maybe Neil Simon either. And I've only read Raisin in the Sun and never seen it, so that too.
Also maybe some Lanford Wilson ('Burn This', 'Balm in Gilead', '5th of July')
Maybe some Victorian stuff that you read about but is almost never done like 'The Bells' or 'Easy Lynne.'
They probably haven't aged well, but possibly 'Black Comedy' or 'The Real Inspector Hound.'
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