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Sept 5, 2018 17:37:29 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 5, 2018 17:37:29 GMT
The Washington Post article is well worth a read, he’s saying what I’d love the next AD of the National and RSC to be saying. Shame it looks like it won’t be him for the foreseeable future Probably a pragmatic move on his behalf as he calculates he is the wrong gender to take over next at either the RSC or NT. Rupert Goold has said the same about his prospects of taking over at the NT when that post becomes vacant (hopefully soon). Indeed Norris' contract presumably runs to 2020 so not long.
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Post by lynette on Sept 5, 2018 19:01:42 GMT
Washington is in for a shock, a nice one I hope. I saw a Hamlet there. It was so slow and dull and formal. So they need some good ole British Theatre gung ho.
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Post by Jan on Sept 5, 2018 19:02:52 GMT
Probably a pragmatic move on his behalf as he calculates he is the wrong gender to take over next at either the RSC or NT. Rupert Goold has said the same about his prospects of taking over at the NT when that post becomes vacant (hopefully soon). Indeed Norris' contract presumably runs to 2020 so not long. There are plenty of candidates for the NT job, but hardly any for the RSC one. Whatever you think of Godwin as a director, and from the little I saw I found him a little flashy and superficial, he has the two essential attributes of actually wanting to run a theatre and a commitment to Shakespeare and has directed half a dozen of his plays - hard to list many directors who match those criteria and even fewer in the same younger age bracket.
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Sept 5, 2018 19:56:12 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 5, 2018 19:56:12 GMT
Indeed Norris' contract presumably runs to 2020 so not long. There are plenty of candidates for the NT job, but hardly any for the RSC one. Whatever you think of Godwin as a director, and from the little I saw I found him a little flashy and superficial, he has the two essential attributes of actually wanting to run a theatre and a commitment to Shakespeare and has directed half a dozen of his plays - hard to list many directors who match those criteria and even fewer in the same younger age bracket. Indeedio though the RSC job wont be available for a few years as Doran will do his ten years which takes us to 2023 and the folio anniversary. Time for someone to come forward. He is a curious choice for the DC job as i thought they would have gone for an American. Kahn had stayed far too long.
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Sept 5, 2018 19:57:35 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 5, 2018 19:57:35 GMT
Washington is in for a shock, a nice one I hope. I saw a Hamlet there. It was so slow and dull and formal. So they need some good ole British Theatre gung ho. Yes Kahn should have gone a while back, 30 years is ridiculous.
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Post by Jan on Sept 6, 2018 9:14:39 GMT
Washington is in for a shock, a nice one I hope. I saw a Hamlet there. It was so slow and dull and formal. So they need some good ole British Theatre gung ho. Yes Kahn should have gone a while back, 30 years is ridiculous. Sam Walters did 43 years at the Orange Tree
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Post by lynette on Sept 6, 2018 15:46:53 GMT
I’m just saying that a production like the recent Almeida Hamlet would require medical attendants on stand by in Washington.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 10:28:47 GMT
They're really pushing the countdown to Monday on Twitter, as if there's a really big announcement coming. Is it likely to be something big, or is it just hype for a normal season announcement, do you think?
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Sept 7, 2018 10:51:13 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 7, 2018 10:51:13 GMT
Has to be the 2019 season announcement, the timing is right. They dont normally count down like this though so maybe there is a big casting shock or its the project Maria Aberg alluded to in The Stage.
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Post by cirque on Sept 8, 2018 7:11:58 GMT
Otway
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Post by theatremad on Sept 8, 2018 7:22:31 GMT
Venice Preserv'd? Very cryptic cirque 😀
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Sept 8, 2018 7:24:43 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 8, 2018 7:24:43 GMT
Really? About flipping time they tackled him. Venice Preserved is fairly well known but the Orphan is supposed to be fab too. Billington will be happy, he has been nagging the RSC to do Otway.
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Post by theatremad on Sept 8, 2018 7:26:18 GMT
Pleased about this if is what we think.
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Sept 8, 2018 8:17:25 GMT
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Post by Jan on Sept 8, 2018 8:17:25 GMT
Venice Preserv'd? Very cryptic cirque 😀 I saw the NT production with McKellen and Pennington. Not much of a play - complicated and dull, one of those where if you don’t concentrate during the first 15 minutes you have no clue what’s going on.
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Sept 8, 2018 9:09:26 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 8, 2018 9:09:26 GMT
Maybe, i had tix for the Almeida production in the mid 90s that got poor reviews, so bad they cut the run short and i got a refund! Nevertheless he is a playwright the RSC should be doing.
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Post by Jan on Sept 8, 2018 9:19:35 GMT
Maybe, i had tix for the Almeida production in the mid 90s that got poor reviews, so bad they cut the run short and i got a refund! Nevertheless he is a playwright the RSC should be doing. I agree they should be doing him. I've also seen The Orphan and The Soldier's Fortune with the latter being probably the better of the three for present day audiences.
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 8, 2018 9:26:47 GMT
My favourite of Otway’s is “Cor Baby that’s Really Free”
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Sept 8, 2018 10:11:31 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 8, 2018 10:11:31 GMT
Maybe, i had tix for the Almeida production in the mid 90s that got poor reviews, so bad they cut the run short and i got a refund! Nevertheless he is a playwright the RSC should be doing. I agree they should be doing him. I've also seen The Orphan and The Soldier's Fortune with the latter being probably the better of the three for present day audiences. Wasnt Soldiers Fortune a flop at the Young Vic, i was going to book til i saw the reviews. Where did you see Orphan? I know it was done yonks ago at Greenwich with a young Ciaran Hinds and Paul Rhys.
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Post by Jan on Sept 8, 2018 13:23:52 GMT
I agree they should be doing him. I've also seen The Orphan and The Soldier's Fortune with the latter being probably the better of the three for present day audiences. Wasnt Soldiers Fortune a flop at the Young Vic, i was going to book til i saw the reviews. Where did you see Orphan? I know it was done yonks ago at Greenwich with a young Ciaran Hinds and Paul Rhys. Soldiers Fortune (with Anne Marie Duff and Oliver Ford Davies amongst others) was disappointing at the YV mainly due to poor direction by David Lan. I saw The Orphan at Greenwich in a typical Philip Prowse production - they all wore black and the stage was filled with smoke, it was impossible to follow what was going on.
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Post by lynette on Sept 8, 2018 22:20:58 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature.
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Sept 9, 2018 6:36:47 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 6:36:47 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature. Think you are gonna be disappointed L. She said in the Stage interview that she had an upcoming project with the rsc that goes into 2020,so im guessing the details will be part of tomorrow. Soz!
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Sept 9, 2018 7:32:49 GMT
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2018 7:32:49 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature. Looks to me like she’s being groomed as Doran’s successor, in the absence of any other obvious candidates.
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Sept 9, 2018 9:04:35 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 9:04:35 GMT
I wondered that, maybe they will say something tomorrow.
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Sept 9, 2018 9:53:14 GMT
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Post by theatremad on Sept 9, 2018 9:53:14 GMT
Todays tweet says This Coming Summer so looks like it is that announcement.
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Post by lynette on Sept 9, 2018 9:54:09 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature. Looks to me like she’s being groomed as Doran’s successor, in the absence of any other obvious candidates. Nooooooo! You winding me up?
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Sept 9, 2018 10:16:49 GMT
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 10:16:49 GMT
Looks to me like she’s being groomed as Doran’s successor, in the absence of any other obvious candidates. Nooooooo! You winding me up? She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young.
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2018 10:43:49 GMT
Nooooooo! You winding me up? She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. Female woman. Doubly qualified then. Although I think she's a weak Shakespeare director she may be brilliant as an AD where the main requirement is to employ and develop other talent.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 9, 2018 11:55:09 GMT
She has done better work than Erica Whyman.
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Post by lynette on Sept 9, 2018 16:55:05 GMT
Nooooooo! You winding me up? She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. How does being Swedish tick a box? Is there a requirement for the AD of the RSC to be from Scandinavia? Clearly not. I don’t care where she comes from. I don’t like her work.
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Post by lynette on Sept 9, 2018 16:55:58 GMT
She has done better work than Erica Whyman. Is that the criterion for becoming the AD of the RSC?
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