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Nov 12, 2021 8:33:49 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 12, 2021 8:33:49 GMT
Richard Bean is currently busy working on 71 Coltman Street, a new play to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hull Truck. He can't be in two places at once!
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Nov 12, 2021 12:20:04 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 12, 2021 12:20:04 GMT
And again no sign of ‘Jack Absolute Flies Again’!!!! That’s a shame, it’s the one I was most looking forward to. |
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Nov 12, 2021 14:58:19 GMT
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Post by Jan on Nov 12, 2021 14:58:19 GMT
Richard Bean is currently busy working on 71 Coltman Street, a new play to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hull Truck. He can't be in two places at once! Why would he have to be there ? - this is 2022 programming anyway. He’s not directing it and they’d already started rehearsals so the play exits. The problem is more likely to be availability of the TV-friendly cast they’d assembled, Caroline Quentin, James Fleet etc. |
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Nov 12, 2021 15:35:51 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 12, 2021 15:35:51 GMT
Shouldn't a playwright always be in the rehearsal room of a new piece, for last minute finessing?
71 Coltman Street opens on 17 February, so the National can have him back on the 18th...unless Caroline Quentin is in the middle of another house renovation! 🙂
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Post by Jan on Nov 12, 2021 15:51:45 GMT
Shouldn't a playwright always be in the rehearsal room of a new piece, for last minute finessing? That is a fairly recent innovation. In the past some of them turned up occasionally or not at all. John Osborne actively disliked the first director of one of his plays so didn’t show at all. However, Rufus Norris is a big fan of having the writer in there semi-permanently. |
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Post by Jon on Nov 12, 2021 16:56:26 GMT
Jack Absolute I imagine is being saved for later in 2022, as Jan suggested, it's probably due to cast availability. |
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Post by Dave B on Dec 2, 2021 12:15:57 GMT
Five and half minutes in the queue for public sale today. My better half quite keen on seeing Nicola Walker in The Corn Is Green so two front row £20 seats for later in the run.
Will see what the next few weeks bring and then see what reviews are like for the rest of the season.
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Post by zahidf on Dec 2, 2021 12:22:14 GMT
Five and half minutes in the queue for public sale today. My better half quite keen on seeing Nicola Walker in The Corn Is Green so two front row £20 seats for later in the run. Will see what the next few weeks bring and then see what reviews are like for the rest of the season. Same here, i got the Corn is green tickets. Ill Friday rush the rest |
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Feb 22, 2022 9:22:41 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 22, 2022 9:22:41 GMT
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Feb 22, 2022 9:29:29 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 22, 2022 9:29:29 GMT
It's a bums on seats season |
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Feb 22, 2022 9:33:58 GMT
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 22, 2022 9:33:58 GMT
Kelvin Fletcher has joined the cast of Jack Absolute. Opens late summer.
Books front row immediately.
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Feb 22, 2022 9:34:05 GMT
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Feb 22, 2022 9:34:05 GMT
Is this the last of the shows cancelled due to covid being done now, or is there something else they've yet to do still?
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Post by jgblunners on Feb 22, 2022 9:35:32 GMT
Official announcement:
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Post by Mark on Feb 22, 2022 9:46:42 GMT
Giles Terera will be in Blues for an Alabama Sky, definitely count me in for that!
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Feb 22, 2022 9:48:36 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 22, 2022 9:48:36 GMT
Kelvin Fletcher??? He must have been taking a lot of acting lessons as he has never demonstrated any acting ability in any of his screen appearances.
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Post by youngoffender on Feb 22, 2022 9:54:09 GMT
In his Times interview, Norris acknowledges the challenge posed by the streamers in attracting writing talent and star names:
"There has been such an upsurge in television and film work in Britain, he explains, that it’s harder than ever to attract writers and directors. 'Most actors who would sell a theatre are now attached to some kind of contract with Netflix or Amazon. I’m very happy for them but it’s very real.'"
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Post by drmaplewood on Feb 22, 2022 9:58:38 GMT
Is this the last of the shows cancelled due to covid being done now, or is there something else they've yet to do still? Callum Scott Howells was meant to be in Romeo and Julie, wasn't he? Though maybe that got canned after he became a household name from It's A Sin. |
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Feb 22, 2022 14:57:52 GMT
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Post by Jan on Feb 22, 2022 14:57:52 GMT
Simon Godwin (rightly) continuing as the NT’s go-to director for Shakespeare I see. RSC in the mud.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 22, 2022 15:07:56 GMT
Who's going to look after the sheep when Kelvin is in that London? 🐑
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Feb 22, 2022 18:16:39 GMT
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 22, 2022 18:16:39 GMT
Who's going to look after the sheep when Kelvin is in that London? 🐑 That was my first thought when I found out. |
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Feb 22, 2022 18:17:17 GMT
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 22, 2022 18:17:17 GMT
Who's going to look after the sheep when Kelvin is in that London? 🐑 That was my first thought when I found out. |
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Feb 22, 2022 19:17:29 GMT
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Post by theoracle on Feb 22, 2022 19:17:29 GMT
I like this programme. I’ll watch anything directed by Ian Rickson and just missed out on the show in 2020. John Heffernan and Katharine Parkinson will be divine together under the helm of Simon Godwin. And of course Giles Terera will be a great draw to the Hamilton fans - good to see him back treading the boards of NT!
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 22, 2022 21:40:47 GMT
No Hex please, we’re British.
The Neptunium Farce.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 24, 2022 21:42:45 GMT
I just watched the Facebook video launching Jack Absolute Flies Again.
The director informed us that the action has been updated to middle of the Battle of Britain. In 1941.
Which all sounds great unless you know that the Battle of Britain took place between July and October 1940.
Now everyone can mis-speak. But the marketing team should have checked before releasing the video.
Just shows sloppiness on the part of the director or the press/marketing department or both.
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Mar 3, 2022 12:33:30 GMT
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Post by justinj on Mar 3, 2022 12:33:30 GMT
Fairly smooth booking process today. Got tickets to all three shows in the £20 category
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