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Sept 12, 2017 9:33:00 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 12, 2017 9:33:00 GMT
Wonder who will play the Duchess of Malfi?
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Post by zahidf on Sept 12, 2017 9:54:51 GMT
Wonder if any of these will make it to London
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 10:06:08 GMT
Wonder if any of these will make it to London is developed in collaboration with Theatre Royal Stratford East. Romeo and Juliet will tour the UK in 2019. The equivalent 2018 tour ( Hamlet) ends with a month at Theatre Royal Stratford East. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 10:08:02 GMT
King Lear touring to USA I assume so they are staging a few paid rehearsals. No, your assumption is wrong. The Stratford return follows the international tour. |
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Sept 12, 2017 10:38:25 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 12, 2017 10:38:25 GMT
The Henry VI plays and Richard III have today been confirmed by Gregory Doran to be produced together, at some time in 2019 to 2021 when the RSC's first folio cycle will be completed. Not that i doubt you but where is this stated? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 10:56:12 GMT
The Henry VI plays and Richard III have today been confirmed by Gregory Doran to be produced together, at some time in 2019 to 2021 when the RSC's first folio cycle will be completed. Not that i doubt you but where is this stated? @thersc Facebook video: Summer 2018 Season with Gregory Doran |
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Post by David J on Sept 12, 2017 11:29:54 GMT
Just seen the news of Peter Hall's death and this announcement  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 11:54:07 GMT
Wonder if any of these will make it to London Going by the last few years I would be surprised if Macbeth (given the casting) and possibly Merry Wives don't turn up at the Barbican in late 2018. The National's Macbeth in in spring 2018 so probably no clash there. Possibly they will randomly transfer one of the Swan shows to the Haymarket as well. |
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Sept 12, 2017 13:01:08 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 12, 2017 13:01:08 GMT
All three new main house shows are being given modern day set productions.
Now I have no particular objection to Shakespeare being staged in contemporary ways as long as care is taken to reconcile the structures of the play with the modern setting.
I guess there is no real difference to having an entire season of Roman plays being played out in togas insofar as it has a visual coherence for the plays. However I am remain unconvinced that these three plays really do work in modern settings without knowing more about what is planned for each.
Macbeth is the one that is, for me, hardest to imagine working because of the supernatural elements of the piece. There are few modern cultures where witchcraft is taken that seriously. And that is such a key part of the text. Can Findlay pull it off? Who knows. Hopefully it will be a more successful interpretation than the Slinger one but I will remain sceptical for now.
There are still a good number of lesser known plays to be done to complete the cycle. I am surprised that they haven't taken the opportunity to use this season to sneak one in alongside the two big tragedies. They are going to have some very obscure seasons coming up now that the big ones have been exhausted.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 13:33:13 GMT
There are still a good number of lesser known plays to be done to complete the cycle. I am surprised that they haven't taken the opportunity to use this season to sneak one in alongside the two big tragedies. That's how they consider Merry Wives - it's getting a very short run in peak summer, sceduled in exactly the same way as Two Gentlemen of Verona, another relatively weak play, in 2014. |
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Post by cirque on Sept 12, 2017 14:44:20 GMT
I just cant get excited
some of the shows may turn out to be great....but I feel and this may be wrong that RSC is far more about education than creating memorable,dynamic theatre.Of course....great to engage the young,have all female directors,schoolchildren doing R and J prologue etc. However where is the RSC.....that company where actors and directors,writers and designers sought to re-evaluate the plays.Todays announcement is lack lustre and the facebook video of Greg Doran a total disaster. I should add its all 'in my opinion'and hopefully I will be proved wrong.The fire is not ignited by todays announcement at all.
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Sept 12, 2017 14:51:17 GMT
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2017 14:51:17 GMT
I just cant get excited some of the shows may turn out to be great....but I feel and this may be wrong that RSC is far more about education than creating memorable,dynamic theatre.Of course....great to engage the young,have all female directors,schoolchildren doing R and J prologue etc. However where is the RSC.....that company where actors and directors,writers and designers sought to re-evaluate the plays.Todays announcement is lack lustre and the facebook video of Greg Doran a total disaster. I should add its all 'in my opinion'and hopefully I will be proved wrong.The fire is not ignited by todays announcement at all. What is amusing is Doran saying the all-female list of directors in the main house just came about by chance. So why mention it then because it's no credit to Doran ? The Macbeth production has the greatest potential out of everything announced - I doubt Ecclestone would have signed up to it without a London transfer so I'll wait for that. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 14:56:20 GMT
I don't know, it's certainly fascinating to see that it is actually possible to end up with an all-female directorial line-up without having to resort to quotas and conscious decision-making. London theatre could learn a lot from that.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 12, 2017 15:14:54 GMT
It sounds fine: Macbeth sounds like the best traditional play, and the new stuff could be awful or amazing. Too Early to say!
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2017 17:10:42 GMT
I don't know, it's certainly fascinating to see that it is actually possible to end up with an all-female directorial line-up without having to resort to quotas and conscious decision-making. London theatre could learn a lot from that. What's to learn ? It just happened by chance so there's nothing to learn. |
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Sept 12, 2017 17:17:13 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 12, 2017 17:17:13 GMT
In terms of an all female directing line up, I would have been less impressed if it had been engineered as that risks accusations of tokenism.
I have doubts over the abilities of some of the names announced. Not because they are women, but because their track record is not strong. I don't really care whether a director is male, female or some other gender. I do care that they can bring something interesting and insightful to their work.
I would have been really impressed if the RSC had chosen not to mention anything about the gender of the team. It should be unremarkable. It isn't but it should be.
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2017 17:39:21 GMT
In terms of an all female directing line up, I would have been less impressed if it had been engineered as that risks accusations of tokenism. I have doubts over the abilities of some of the names announced. Not because they are women, but because their track record is not strong. I don't really care whether a director is male, female or some other gender. I do care that they can bring something interesting and insightful to their work. I would have been really impressed if the RSC had chosen not to mention anything about the gender of the team. It should be unremarkable. It isn't but it should be. Correct - he shouldn't have mentioned it, it should be unremarkable and mentioning it just draws attention to the fact that, by chance I suppose, all 5 are all white (I think they are anyway). I see Doran is directing Troilus and Cressida in Autumn 2018 so it IS being cross-cast with R&J I suppose, except T&C will be 50/50 male/female cast. |
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Sept 12, 2017 19:14:03 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 12, 2017 19:14:03 GMT
In terms of an all female directing line up, I would have been less impressed if it had been engineered as that risks accusations of tokenism. I have doubts over the abilities of some of the names announced. Not because they are women, but because their track record is not strong. I don't really care whether a director is male, female or some other gender. I do care that they can bring something interesting and insightful to their work. I would have been really impressed if the RSC had chosen not to mention anything about the gender of the team. It should be unremarkable. It isn't but it should be. Correct - he shouldn't have mentioned it, it should be unremarkable and mentioning it just draws attention to the fact that, by chance I suppose, all 5 are all white (I think they are anyway). I see Doran is directing Troilus and Cressida in Autumn 2018 so it IS being cross-cast with R&J I suppose, except T&C will be 50/50 male/female cast. Cool, want to see T&C again, where did you see that JB? |
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2017 19:27:58 GMT
Correct - he shouldn't have mentioned it, it should be unremarkable and mentioning it just draws attention to the fact that, by chance I suppose, all 5 are all white (I think they are anyway). I see Doran is directing Troilus and Cressida in Autumn 2018 so it IS being cross-cast with R&J I suppose, except T&C will be 50/50 male/female cast. Cool, want to see T&C again, where did you see that JB? Guardian. What they're mostly interested in of course is the pure chance that means they have 5 female directors for the Summer season. www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/12/royal-shakespeare-company-chooses-all-women-directors-summer-2018-season |
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Sept 12, 2017 19:39:46 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 12, 2017 19:39:46 GMT
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Post by lynette on Sept 12, 2017 21:57:25 GMT
Maria Aberg... nooooooo
Modern dress...well that's how they were put on in the first place.
I think that Macbeth is fine for modern interpretation. Mental health issues, marriage issues, totalitarianism, random and cruel murder. Personally I found the Slinger production chilling with the children brought to the fore.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 12, 2017 22:21:18 GMT
The children were interesting in the Slinger version but there was zero passion between the Macbeths and so the production lacked any real dynamism. If you don't buy that central relationship - which I and many others didn't - then the production fails. What was strange was that the same actors were playing with real passion in the Pinter running at the same time - but Macbeth was just devoid of it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 0:26:42 GMT
The season looks quite interesting, it will be good to see Eccleston tackle a role like that and David Troughton as Falstaff should be a good fit too.
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Sept 13, 2017 5:40:55 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 13, 2017 5:40:55 GMT
Maria Aberg... nooooooo Modern dress...well that's how they were put on in the first place. I think that Macbeth is fine for modern interpretation. Mental health issues, marriage issues, totalitarianism, random and cruel murder. Personally I found the Slinger production chilling with the children brought to the fore. I felt the same Lynette! I like Webster and hopes we would see DoM ar Stratford before too long but White Devil was so awful im v nervous about the this director let loose again. Casting may be key, i felt the two leads in WD woefully undercast. Will def book for Macbeth. |
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Post by cirque on Sept 13, 2017 9:31:15 GMT
Maybe not quite as bad as this but not very thrilling.However dont worry Greg tells The Times today no British actors can play Macbeth-Sorry Kinnear dont bother-and we need Jackman/Crowe to come over.He also looks forward to Harriet Walter playing the role.
I think RSC have got very lost and the Doran/Whyman partnership plays politics but not serving the plays or the repertoire well at all.All this is brought into focus by the memory of what Sir Peter Hall created.
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