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Post by Forrest on Jul 7, 2020 13:07:40 GMT
crowblack , thank you so much for the info on BAFTA: I just booked for the End of the F***ing World session and could not be more excited about it!
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 7, 2020 13:48:39 GMT
I just booked for the End of the F***ing World session and could not be more excited about it! Didn't have you down as a nihilist. You're normally so positive and nice to everybody. 🙂
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Post by Forrest on Jul 7, 2020 18:17:48 GMT
Didn't have you down as a nihilist. You're normally so positive and nice to everybody. 🙂 ...and yet here I am all excited about booking for the end of the (f***ing!) world. Who knew, who knew... eh? ;) If it will help restore your faith in my joyful, optimistic nature, I also booked for Simon McBurney's "Theatre Making for the Future" this Thursday, so I do actually hope we get to see the future, and with theatre in it, too! :)
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Post by HereForTheatre on Jul 10, 2020 20:19:46 GMT
I don't know if anyone is watching or bought tickets for other streams of the TurnUp concert but i'd highly recommend it. It's sensational. I mean, sensational. The whole thing is of the highest quality. It brought tears to my eyes at times and some of the performances were stunning. It also included some very unique things like a performance of For Good by a black Glinda (from Broadway) and black Elphaba (Alexia Khadime) which i think is the first time that has happened and the coming together of 4 of the Motormouth Maybelles from Hairspray.
The team behind it did an absolutely amazing job putting it together and it was really powerful.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 10, 2020 22:46:20 GMT
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is doing an online show on the 21st July, tickets are £5 concession or £7 full price:
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Post by poster J on Jul 10, 2020 23:14:59 GMT
I don't know if anyone is watching or bought tickets for other streams of the TurnUp concert but i'd highly recommend it. It's sensational. I mean, sensational. The whole thing is of the highest quality. It brought tears to my eyes at times and some of the performances were stunning. It also included some very unique things like a performance of For Good by a black Glinda (from Broadway) and black Elphaba (Alexia Khadime) which i think is the first time that has happened and the coming together of 4 of the Motormouth Maybelles from Hairspray. The team behind it did an absolutely amazing job putting it together and it was really powerful. Ahh glad to hear it, I'm booked for Sunday!
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Post by greeny11 on Jul 11, 2020 6:55:40 GMT
I too saw the TurnUp concert last night and was blown away - so well organised and some brilliant performances - too many to list here. As a big Hairspray fan, I adored the 4 Motormouths doing I Know Where Ive Been.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Jul 11, 2020 8:48:29 GMT
I too saw the TurnUp concert last night and was blown away - so well organised and some brilliant performances - too many to list here. As a big Hairspray fan, I adored the 4 Motormouths doing I Know Where Ive Been. It was so slick and we'll done. They honestly should put it on Netflix or the BBC or something.
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Post by finboroughtheatre on Jul 11, 2020 12:30:33 GMT
The second Virtual Finborough Forum, hosted on 6 July 2020 with guest speaker Ameena Hamid. Ameena is an independent producer based in London and is company director and creative producer at Ameena Hamid Productions Ltd. She produces works that brings people of colour, LGBTQ+, those who identify as disabled, women and genderqueer theatre-makers to the stage and is particularly passionate about increasing inclusivity and representation in theatre. Follow @finboroughforum on Twitter for more information about future online meetings. Previous Finborough Forum meetings, including our June session with script consultant Philip Shelley, are available on our YouTube channel.
Watch now:
The Finborough Forum is an invitation-only group of playwrights, directors, designers and other theatre creatives. Members of the Finborough Forum are invited by the theatre to attend monthly meetings, where they take part in a Q&A with a wide range of industry guest speakers, followed by a chance to socialise with fellow theatre practitioners.
The group originally started life in October 2017 as the Finborough Theatre Writers' Group. After a successful two years, the group relaunched as the Finborough Forum in September 2019, expanding its remit to include theatre directors, designers and other creatives associated with the Finborough Theatre, in order to broaden the discussion and expand the camaraderie that has emerged between the playwrights in the group to other theatre practitioners.
The Finborough Forum is generously supported by The George Goetchius and Donald Howarth Society of Friend’s Awards. #FinboroughForFree
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Post by crowblack on Jul 16, 2020 11:29:02 GMT
The BAFTA webinars/zooms/call them what you will with the nominees in various categories are on Youtube, with the search words 'BAFTA guru' rather than the regular BAFTA Youtube channel.
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Post by theatreliker on Jul 16, 2020 18:58:28 GMT
Anyone know what the NT is planning after the last NTatHome? Perhaps paid streams or more encores at cinemas?
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 25, 2020 10:18:47 GMT
There are still a few days left to watch, or rewatch, Marvellous on BBC i-Player. It's so life-affirmingly 'marvellous', I was smiling from beginning to end...except during the sad bits. If more people adopted Neil Baldwin's attitude to life, the world would be a better place.
Gemma & Toby Jones, Tony Curran, Greg McHugh and Nicholas Gleaves.
"So what's this got to do with theatre?" I hear you ask. Well there was going to be a stage version at the New Vic and Bolton Octagon this autumn, but it's now been postponed until next year, hopefully in the spring. I'm definitely going to try and see it.
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Post by finboroughtheatre on Jul 27, 2020 8:54:11 GMT
#FinboroughForFree - streaming for a strictly limited time in August: SCROUNGER by Athena Stevens Performance from world premiere production at the Finborough Theatre in January 2020. ★★★★ Four Stars, Time Out ★★★★ Four Stars, London Living Large ★★★★ Four Stars, Close-Up Culture Nominated for 6 OffWestEnd Awards and a London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award.
On the streets of Elephant and Castle, everyone likes to make speculations about Scrounger. She needs help, she must not be aware of the complexities of the world, she is sent from the demons to torture her mum… at least according to her Nigerian Uber driver. Scrounger doesn’t care. A successful online personality, she’s got more power from her bedroom than anyone on the Southwark estates could dream of. She’s educated, she’s ballsy, and with a huge network of online allies, Scrounger is a woman who knows how to make change happen. That is, until an airline destroys her wheelchair. Inspired by real events and a lawsuit initiated by Stevens herself, Scrounger drives towards the realities of how Britain is failing its most vulnerable and the extreme cost paid by those seeking justice.
More about the original Finborough Theatre production here: finboroughtheatre.co.uk/production/scrounger/
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Post by n1david on Jul 27, 2020 23:20:00 GMT
The Sky Arts channel is going free-to-air on Freeview from September. Sky Arts has an enormous amount of archive arts programming, from theatre to opera to pop concerts and fine art. It remains to be seen if some of that has to vanish from the schedule when it goes FTA due to rights issues, but they have announced that they'll be showing the ENO drive-in production of La Boheme and a new production from Theatre Royal Stratford East called "No Masks", based on the stories of key workers through the pandemic in East London. A very clever bit of brand-building from Sky... www.thestage.co.uk/news/news/sky-arts-to-become-free-from-september-with-new-programming-announced
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Post by bengal73 on Jul 29, 2020 6:57:13 GMT
The Sky Arts channel is going free-to-air on Freeview from September. Sky Arts has an enormous amount of archive arts programming, from theatre to opera to pop concerts and fine art. It remains to be seen if some of that has to vanish from the schedule when it goes FTA due to rights issues, but they have announced that they'll be showing the ENO drive-in production of La Boheme and a new production from Theatre Royal Stratford East called "No Masks", based on the stories of key workers through the pandemic in East London. A very clever bit of brand-building from Sky... www.thestage.co.uk/news/news/sky-arts-to-become-free-from-september-with-new-programming-announcedWonder how much of this ties in with a Sky survey I received yesterday the bulk of which referred to showing musicals and plays on a new pay per view channel for anywhere between £10 and £25 per show and willingness to pay in situations where theatres are either still closed or when they are open again
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Post by CG on the loose on Jul 29, 2020 8:28:53 GMT
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Post by david on Jul 31, 2020 16:17:43 GMT
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Post by frappuccino on Aug 1, 2020 8:13:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 8:25:49 GMT
Fantastic line up for this one. Wonder if other West End venues/producers will follow suit?
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 2, 2020 11:21:20 GMT
I didn't want to recommend it until I'd seen it, but now I have, Kate Prince: Every Move She Makes is worth a watch on BBC iPlayer.
She and her husband have a cat flap 🐈 in their bi-folds. It rather spoils the aesthetic! ☹
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Post by NeilVHughes on Aug 5, 2020 14:54:24 GMT
Albion - Almeida Theatre
Albion is going to be screened on BBC Four on Sunday 16 August as part of the BBC Culture In Quarantine season.
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Post by n1david on Aug 7, 2020 16:58:01 GMT
Sky have done another deal with SOLT to put out a set of 30-minute shows, each profiling a different West End show. The shows will feature songs, cast Q&As and information about the show.
The shows featured are: The Prince of Egypt Wicked Disney’s The Lion King Only Fools and Horses The Musical Tina – The Tina Turner Musical Matilda The Musical The Play That Goes Wrong Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
If you have Sky, you can access the first of them (Prince of Egypt) today on the Sky VIP app on your phone or tablet. They will each go up on SOLT's YouTube channel a month later from September 4th, with new episodes weekly.
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Post by crowblack on Aug 7, 2020 19:01:43 GMT
Albion is going to be screened on BBC Four on Sunday 16 August as part of the BBC Culture In Quarantine season. I see they're promoting it with shots of the actress from 'Normal People'.
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Post by Forrest on Aug 7, 2020 23:37:48 GMT
A while ago I went to see a show called Labels at the Vault festival and absolutely loved it. I know it sounds like a strange rush of nostalgia, but the reason I am telling you this is because the show will feature as part of the Shedinburgh online festival, which will take place on Zoom between the 14th and the 31st of August, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. There are a few other cool things on the programme too - most notably perhaps Tim Crouch's My Arm - and tickets start at £4 (actually, donations, which allow you to watch the shows).
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Post by NeilVHughes on Aug 20, 2020 11:46:20 GMT
Pericles - Public Arts at the National Theatre
Sadly Members only
Public Acts is the National Theatre’s nationwide initiative to create extraordinary acts of theatre and community. Next week should have seen us celebrating the premiere of our third Public Acts production, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, in Doncaster. Sadly, performances have been postponed until 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
However, to mark the occasion, we wanted to give you the opportunity to experience the brilliance of this programme with a special opportunity to watch Pericles online from Wednesday 2 September until the weekend.
If you are a member, was a highlight a few years ago, put your reservation about watching streams aside, this will put a massive smile on your face, the energy and pleasure of the amateurs was infectious (in a good way)
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 21, 2020 9:56:06 GMT
One of my favourite ever TV dramas Coming Down The Mountain is on Amazon Prime. Written by Mark Haddon (who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night Time), it's about two teenage brothers, one of whom has Down's Syndrome, and the resentment this creates in the other brother. But unlike a lot of dramas of this ilk, it isn't trying to be 'worthy' or preaching about the condition, it is full of dark humour, and Tommy Jessop gives an amazing performance.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Sept 4, 2020 14:12:48 GMT
Uncle Vanya - Harold Pinter Theatre - BBC
Ian Rickson’s superb production of Uncle Vanya has been restaged at the Harold Pinter Theatre for BBC TV broadcast with the original cast bar Roger Allam, who replaces Ciaran Hinds.
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Post by n1david on Sept 6, 2020 17:17:08 GMT
Next Sunday (13th) on Talking Pictures RV, if you fancy a blast from the past:
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Post by lynette on Sept 6, 2020 19:40:49 GMT
Uncle Vanya - Harold Pinter Theatre - BBCIan Rickson’s superb production of Uncle Vanya has been restaged at the Harold Pinter Theatre for BBC TV broadcast with the original cast bar Roger Allam, who replaces Ciaran Hinds. Do we know when it will be shown?
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