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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 19:08:21 GMT
Good. Sounds like it might not be a live broadcast though.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 5, 2020 19:55:00 GMT
Join us on 30 and 31 October for Something Wicked: A Halloween Revel 🦇
A Macbeth-themed party with pop-up performances, haunted theatre tours, dancing, cocktail making, an escape room, ghost stories and a sleepless sleepover - tickets available soon 🎃
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Post by mistressjojo on Feb 7, 2020 23:47:29 GMT
Iirc Tennant's on the record as saying he doesn't especially want to play Richard III, though he may have changed his mind since. They may want to cast a disabled actor. That's right, it wasn't on his 'list', but people change so you never know. But it would make a nice top-tail to the cycle and put lots of bums on seats. And make lots of £££. (DT did say recently that he would be on stage this year, and that it would be something relevant to current times.) |
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Post by lynette on Feb 8, 2020 9:02:25 GMT
They always try to to make RIII a star turn and it often doesn’t work but it would be nice to see Tennant’s take on this one.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 8, 2020 9:12:33 GMT
Thinking of the Richards I have seen over the years, only one of the star turns has worked.
Mckellan's performance is still the best I have seen live.
Rylance was one of the worst.
Henry Goodman was forgettable.
Slinger was reasonable but then he isn't really a name in the same way.
For a play that is so exciting, my experience of it is that few productions nail all the elements.
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Post by Jan on Feb 8, 2020 10:49:45 GMT
Thinking of the Richards I have seen over the years, only one of the star turns has worked. Mckellan's performance is still the best I have seen live. Rylance was one of the worst. Henry Goodman was forgettable. Slinger was reasonable but then he isn't really a name in the same way. For a play that is so exciting, my experience of it is that few productions nail all the elements. Agree on McKellen. Sher was also great in his (famous) performance. Very recently Greg Hicks was excellent as a star turn at the Arcola in an average production. Least effective I've seen was Martin Freeman. |
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Post by learfan on Feb 8, 2020 11:33:32 GMT
Sadly Sher was before i started theatre going. McKellen excellent but so were Lesser and Slinger. Some younger actors were quite good:McArdle in 2001 and O'Neill in 2012. Goodman was I think trying too hard. Troughton was in an interesting productiin in 1995 i think. Its such a plum part.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 8, 2020 12:14:58 GMT
I had forgotten O'Neill. Which says it all.
Sher- I would have loved to have seen but it was before my independent theatre-going days. Now I find him too mannered to be watchable. But The Year of the King is a great record of that production and his process.
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Post by Jan on Feb 8, 2020 13:27:52 GMT
I had forgotten O'Neill. Which says it all. Sher- I would have loved to have seen but it was before my independent theatre-going days. Now I find him too mannered to be watchable. But The Year of the King is a great record of that production and his process. It was a pure star turn by Sher, the rest of the production was indifferent. |
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Post by lynette on Feb 8, 2020 17:05:11 GMT
It was the production of the McKellan which was so striking, the neo Nazi look etc. It was one of the first of such i have seen and so very memorable. He is pretty good in anything though isn’t he? Sher was good, the bottled spider, very strong. Kevin Spacey was Kevin Spacey, nothing new to the party.
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Post by theatremad on Feb 20, 2020 7:36:09 GMT
Downgraded from Bronze to Member so long time off booking. How are performances looking in the Stalls across the run as Bronze Patron booking opens?
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Post by zahidf on Jul 14, 2020 12:46:06 GMT
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Post by fossil on Jul 14, 2020 19:23:25 GMT
I have started watching the BBC's Shakespeare and Hathaway which is set in Stratford-Upon-Avon. They keep having scenes filmed outside the RST and for a couple of episodes both outside and inside The Other Place. It is most upsetting. I had not realised how much I was missing my trips to Stratford! Even the scene filmed at the Station...…. I even miss the mad scramble for good tickets:
Priority Exchange for Winter 2021 - The Wars of the Roses and The Magician’s Elephant
* Major Donors, Production Circle, Artists Circle and Gold Patrons - from Tuesday 14 July
* Silver Patrons - from Wednesday 15 July
* Bronze Patrons - from Tuesday 21 July
* Members - from Tuesday 28 July
* Subscribers - from Wednesday 29 July
Priority Booking for Winter 2021 - The Wars of the Roses and The Magician’s Elephant
* Major Donors, Production Circle, Artists Circle and Gold, Silver and Bronze Patrons - from Monday 10 August
* Members and Subscribers - from Tuesday 11 August
* Public Booking opens on Wednesday 12 August
Note that Members and Subscribers booking is the same day.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 28, 2020 10:08:01 GMT
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Post by lynette on Jul 29, 2020 14:04:10 GMT
At last.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2021 15:05:12 GMT
Anyone got any ideas on what to expect?
(Please don’t say Shakespeare. Lol)
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Post by cavocado on Oct 1, 2021 18:04:40 GMT
Great, at last! Greg Doran did a radio programme about the plague a few months ago, in which he said the first play back on stage at the RST would be Winter's Tale. But I doubt he expected it to be such a long wait, so maybe that production has been shelved.
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 1, 2021 23:51:31 GMT
The RSC did announce a lacklustre 2020 season that included Winter’s Tale, along with Comedy of Errors (which has just got done) and Pericles (life is too short) however they will need stronger Shakespeare titles, from the popular body of works to get people back in.
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Post by Jan on Oct 2, 2021 7:05:41 GMT
Great, at last! Greg Doran did a radio programme about the plague a few months ago, in which he said the first play back on stage at the RST would be Winter's Tale. But I doubt he expected it to be such a long wait, so maybe that production has been shelved. They did that Winters Tale as a screen version on BBC4 as far as I remember. Doubt they’d stage it now, just tick it off the list as having been done in his complete cycle and move quickly on, like for Henry VI part I. I assume the new season will include combined Henry VI 2&3 and Richard III. |
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Post by zahidf on Oct 2, 2021 7:18:38 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me to see David Tennant back for one of the plays
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Post by Jan on Oct 2, 2021 7:26:52 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me to see David Tennant back for one of the plays Always assumed after he’d done Richard II for them he’d be back for Richard III. However Doran wouldn’t let anyone else direct that so it depends on his availability next year. |
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Post by cavocado on Oct 2, 2021 8:09:54 GMT
Great, at last! Greg Doran did a radio programme about the plague a few months ago, in which he said the first play back on stage at the RST would be Winter's Tale. But I doubt he expected it to be such a long wait, so maybe that production has been shelved. They did that Winters Tale as a screen version on BBC4 as far as I remember. Doubt they’d stage it now, just tick it off the list as having been done in his complete cycle and move quickly on, like for Henry VI part I. I assume the new season will include combined Henry VI 2&3 and Richard III. I missed the BBC4 version, but just checked and it's still available www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vkk7 |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 2, 2021 17:11:17 GMT
It will take something very special for people to take notice of the RSC again.
Their behaviour over the past 18 months on top of the rest of Doran's pedestrian (at best) leadership has severely damaged the reputation of the company.
I just don't care what is happening in Stratford. They have ceased to be of any real interest. And that is massively sad.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 2, 2021 17:51:18 GMT
Mirror and the light in London seems to be a hit. And comedy of errors has had some great reviews.
Hopefully they can back on track for next year. A strong RSC is good for the theatre infrastructure in this country and I find it sad they've done so little in the last year.
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Post by Jan on Oct 3, 2021 13:11:31 GMT
Big advert for their Xmas show in the newspapers yesterday and right at the top in big letters “From the producers of Matilda and Boy In A Dress”. It’s comical, that’s what they think the biggest draw is, not the actors or director or writers (of this or the original work) or composer but the producers ? Who even cares who the producers are ? And these “producers” - that’s just the RSC isn’t it ?
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