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Post by stevemar on Jan 17, 2020 18:46:57 GMT
I have just returned three tickets for resale to the Box Office for tomorrow, Saturday 18 January 730, priced £10 and £20x2 stalls. Hopefully they should be online shortly for anyone who is interested.
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Post by tmesis on Jan 19, 2020 19:55:47 GMT
The best part of this was the ending, evocatively using Purcell's 'When I am laid in Earth' from Dido and Aneas to counter balance all the gruesomeness that had gone before. Other than that I found it a very annoying production that seemed to be hell bent on including every modish directorial cliché possible. So we had the white box that dominated the set looking like a changing room, suddenly going into balletic movements for no discernible reason, hand held microphones and, tiredest of all, a low pitched note throughout the drama to signify tension.
Well I suppose it could have been worse - at least we didn't also have one character videoing another or a bit of gratuitous puppetry.
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Post by intoanewlife on Jan 19, 2020 20:14:38 GMT
The best part of this was the ending, evocatively using Purcell's 'When I am laid in Earth' from Dido and Aneas to counter balance all the gruesomeness that had gone before. Other than that I found it a very annoying production that seemed to be hell bent on including every modish directorial cliché possible. So we had the white box that dominated the set looking like a changing room, suddenly going into balletic movements for no discernible reason, hand held microphones and, tiredest of all, a low pitched note throughout the drama to signify tension. Well it could have been worse - at least we didn't also have one character videoing another or a bit of gratuitous puppetry.I for one cannot wait until this ridiculous (as well as the over the top praise of it) practise stops x
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Post by Jan on Jan 20, 2020 6:46:04 GMT
The best part of this was the ending, evocatively using Purcell's 'When I am laid in Earth' from Dido and Aneas to counter balance all the gruesomeness that had gone before. Other than that I found it a very annoying production that seemed to be hell bent on including every modish directorial cliché possible. So we had the white box that dominated the set looking like a changing room, suddenly going into balletic movements for no discernible reason, hand held microphones and, tiredest of all, a low pitched note throughout the drama to signify tension. Well I suppose it could have been worse - at least we didn't also have one character videoing another or a bit of gratuitous puppetry. The one directorial innovation I don't think I'd seen before was the blood that wasn't red.
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Post by Lemansky on Jan 27, 2020 13:56:16 GMT
I saw this at the matinee on Saturday. I am very glad to have seen it, as it's one of my favourites and I've never seen it performed before. Lydia Wilson was fantastic and I thought that Ferdinand was played as unstable from the start really worked. I did feel that Antonio was acting like he was in a different production to everyone else - they were all incredibly restrained throughout, but he was all over the place from the beginning. I just didn't think the way he was acting the role worked. However, having read the reviews since seeing it, I seem to be in the minority!
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