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Post by Jan on Feb 6, 2016 11:15:23 GMT
Trevor's promised King John will be at Kingston. One for the Shakespeare completists.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 11:22:47 GMT
Wonder if he will stick with the same diverse casting policy he used for War of the Roses
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Post by Jan on Feb 6, 2016 11:49:01 GMT
Wonder if he will stick with the same diverse casting policy he used for War of the Roses I've seen the play done where the only black member of the cast was playing The Bastard. He should try that just to annoy the critics even more. Some of his past Shakespeare productions have been notably diverse - Troilus and Cressida for example. Oddly I was just watching Toast of London on TV which is always lauded by the Guardianistas and yet there wasn't a single non-white actor in it - never seen a single complaint about that. |
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Post by Jon on Feb 6, 2016 12:07:32 GMT
After King John, how many Shakespeare's left for Nunn?
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Post by Jan on Feb 6, 2016 12:16:32 GMT
After King John, how many Shakespeare's left for Nunn? Kingston flyer says one. He is doing Pericles in New York though and that might be the last, however I can't see that he's directed Midsummer Night's Dream. |
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Post by Jan on Feb 9, 2016 9:30:45 GMT
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Post by Jan on Feb 12, 2016 14:27:59 GMT
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Post by bordeaux on Feb 12, 2016 21:58:36 GMT
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Post by jason71 on Apr 18, 2016 13:29:05 GMT
Has anybody booked for this show? I've recently got a ticket for this show
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2016 14:10:21 GMT
Yup! I think it's a fantastic play, and if I could survive the Wars Of The Roses in a single day on a cheap pit ticket, I can certainly survive a single King John. I'm pretty excited by the casting too.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 19, 2016 11:50:36 GMT
Anyone else seen this long production - complete with extra text ?
The verse speaking is rather good and so are the performances. although due to its length I lost interest in the second half
Lots dry ice
the action stops so someone can bring on a chair or table
The set, was it left over from War of the Roses? - it's looks very Nicholas Nicolably or Le Miz. The staircases aren't used till the last 10 minutes. Huh?
Why the plasma screens, filming and dodgy photos of walls and battle fields. All a bit incongruous
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Post by Jan on Jul 1, 2016 15:40:11 GMT
It was OK. I think John Barton spliced in bits from the same earlier plays too years ago - Trev did the editing in the evenings when directing Pericles in New York earlier in the year. I also saw his Midsummer Nights Dream in Ipswich, in this case I agree with Mikey Billington's gracious review of it. It is a great achievement by Trev to direct the whole canon. I suspect he part-funded these later productions himself (as he did with his famous Macbeth) making it even more of a labour of love.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 16:42:58 GMT
I was violently disappointed by this production. It was quite boring, no one had told the cast where the jokes were, the video camera looked stupid with all the medieval costumes and made the cushion seating horrendously awful, the costumes were cheap, and even the good cast members couldn't rescue it. Trev really should have talked to some other directors before embarking on this, it was all too clear that the reason he hadn't done it before was because he simply didn't get it.
And next time Lisa Dillon is cast in anything at all (post LLL+LLW, anyway) I'm returning my ticket.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 17:02:46 GMT
I was violently disappointed by this production. It was quite boring, no one had told the cast where the jokes were, the video camera looked stupid with all the medieval costumes and made the cushion seating horrendously awful, the costumes were cheap, and even the good cast members couldn't rescue it. Trev really should have talked to some other directors before embarking on this, it was all too clear that the reason he hadn't done it before was because he simply didn't get it. And next time Lisa Dillon is cast in anything at all (post LLL+LLW, anyway) I'm returning my ticket.I must say the only thing I've really liked her in was 'Design For Living' at the Old Vic but that was because she was sandwiched between Andrew Scott and Tom Burke. A sandwich I'm sure we'd all like to have stuffed our faces with. |
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Post by Jan on Jul 1, 2016 17:30:16 GMT
Of all Trev's Shakespeares, and I've seen more than half, the least successful ones were the History plays, only Richard II was anything special (I did not see Henry V or Henry VIII).
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