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Post by cirque on Sept 8, 2017 19:24:42 GMT
good to see Peter Brook in town next week.look forward to his new short book of wisdom
boufes du nord strongly tipped for Edinburgh Int Festival next year with two productions inc one by Katie Mitchell who really seems to be worlds busiest director with theatre and opera everywhere.NT lost her.... RSC too........rather short sighted.
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 8, 2017 19:47:55 GMT
good to see Peter Brook in town next week.look forward to his new short book of wisdom boufes du nord strongly tipped for Edinburgh Int Festival next year with two productions inc one by Katie Mitchell who really seems to be worlds busiest director with theatre and opera everywhere.NT lost her.... RSC too........rather short sighted. Dont miss Katie Mitchell at all! Something by Brook on the other hand... |
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Post by cirque on Sept 8, 2017 19:50:52 GMT
Fantasy thought. Imagine a Brook in Swan for RSC......nothing epic....just a chamber work.
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Post by lynette on Sept 8, 2017 22:33:53 GMT
I saw Brooks' Dream. It changed theatre ....for ever.... would love to see something in The Swan, cirque.
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 9, 2017 4:16:36 GMT
Giving too much away Lynette! Was dear old Jan with you?
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Post by cirque on Sept 9, 2017 7:29:13 GMT
seeing Brooks Dream was ,indeed,a lifechanger.
Saw Sonnets a few years back in Swan with Pennington....the Brook insight has never faded.I will worship at the temple on Thursday when he speaks at NT.
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Post by cirque on Sept 9, 2017 7:30:07 GMT
seeing Brooks Dream was ,indeed,a lifechanger.
Saw Sonnets a few years back in Swan with Pennington....the Brook insight has never faded.I will worship at the temple on Thursday when he speaks at NT.
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2017 14:35:27 GMT
Giving too much away Lynette! Was dear old Jan with you? I've never seen anything by Brook. But I have seen plenty by the world's busiest director Katie Mitchell who never fails to complain how little work she gets in every interview she does. She seems to direct a lot in Germany which shows how conservative they are because she directs in the German house style. Hytner showed considerable patience with her but finally had to show her the door when she insisted on staging things that people in the circle couldn't see or hear. RSC also indulged her by telling her she could direct any Shakespeare play she wanted and she chose (of course) Henry VI Part II. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 14:41:15 GMT
I've never seen anything by Brook. See one, then you've seen them all. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2017 14:47:34 GMT
I've never seen anything by Brook. See one, then you've seen them all. I'm happy to accept he was a director of genius based on contemporary accounts, but in the 40 years since he left UK a cult has grown up around him whereby anything he does is thought by his fans to be a work of genius. I read a book on Shakespeare he'd written ("The Qualityof Mercy") and it really was feeble stuff. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 14:59:06 GMT
Giving too much away Lynette! Was dear old Jan with you? I've never seen anything by Brook. But I have seen plenty by the world's busiest director Katie Mitchell who never fails to complain how little work she gets in every interview she does. She seems to direct a lot in Germany which shows how conservative they are because she directs in the German house style. Hytner showed considerable patience with her but finally had to show her the door when she insisted on staging things that people in the circle couldn't see or hear. RSC also indulged her by telling her she could direct any Shakespeare play she wanted and she chose (of course) Henry VI Part II. It was actually Part 3, which is a tremendous play that works just as well (if not better) as a prequel to Richard III as a sequel to Henry VI Part 2. I admit I didn't see what Mitchell made of it, but though I cannot defend her method, I'm happy to speak up for her choice. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 15:29:09 GMT
but though I cannot defend her method, I'm happy to speak up for her choice. At that time, her personal theatre style was quite different to what it is today. It was then influenced by Gardzienice. It was in the original The Other Place, played on the wooden floor. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2017 15:35:08 GMT
I've never seen anything by Brook. But I have seen plenty by the world's busiest director Katie Mitchell who never fails to complain how little work she gets in every interview she does. She seems to direct a lot in Germany which shows how conservative they are because she directs in the German house style. Hytner showed considerable patience with her but finally had to show her the door when she insisted on staging things that people in the circle couldn't see or hear. RSC also indulged her by telling her she could direct any Shakespeare play she wanted and she chose (of course) Henry VI Part II. It was actually Part 3, which is a tremendous play that works just as well (if not better) as a prequel to Richard III as a sequel to Henry VI Part 2. I admit I didn't see what Mitchell made of it, but though I cannot defend her method, I'm happy to speak up for her choice. If it really was a tremendous stand-alone play it would be produced much more frequently than it is (i.e. Once only in the last 500 years). It just about works as part of a production of the Henry VI trilogy but even then it is usually edited heavily to make the three plays into two. |
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Post by Mr Snow on Sept 9, 2017 20:06:36 GMT
His reduced version of Carmen is playing at the stunning Wiltons Music Hall this autumn. Saw it at the Teatro Argentina, Rome 25+ years ago. It's piece I don't care for but I'm going again as I recall enjoying it. Nothing to radical just a cogent synthesis. No idea if he has any involvement in this iteration.
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