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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 17, 2024 11:42:39 GMT
I loved Mark Gatiss and am happy he won- but I would personally have given James Norton the award. What he did every night on stage was nothing short of extraordinary.
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Post by steve10086 on Apr 17, 2024 18:19:01 GMT
Waddingham is very PC in a single respect. When it comes to using words like “going nuts” and “bunch of lunatics” she doesn’t have a problem. Too busy throwing her knickers at men to have any mental health awareness training I guess.
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Post by theatreloverlondon on Apr 18, 2024 7:03:59 GMT
I only just clocked that Will Close won Best Supporting Actor In A Play (for 'Dear England'), and that Luke Thompson and Zubin Varla (both for 'A Little Life') didn't. None of the footballer characters in 'Dear England' have much depth, or require much of an acting stretch. I think there was a likeability factor for Close and Thompson's characters as written, but I also thought Luke Thompson's performance had the biggest range of all the performances in 'A Little Life'. I'm really gutted for him. For me THAT was a performance that wove through the entire play with great demands. Perhaps other nominees who I didn't see were also as complex in performance. I just know that the collection of cute ticks required for Harry Kane in 'Dear England' were nothing in comparison. So true!! When I watched Dear England I thought everyone was great but Joseph Fiennes was the only person who made me think wow he must get an award!! & maybe the psychologist lady.
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 18, 2024 14:10:24 GMT
Everythng about Harry Kane is understated. From the 16-year old working class school leaver with a speech impediment, to the boy accepted into academies and later rejected by Tottenham and Arsenal academies, from being on the verge of being let go again to England's all-time goal scorer, to not wanting to speak in public to addressing the nation in the most difficult circumstances. Many people in the audience would know some of his backstory.
The problem is how to represent someone so understated, who let's actions speak for words, in a dramatic national story. The balanced writing of Kane's story was exceptional. Fwiw, I thought the execution was pretty tricky but he pulled it off.
In contrast, the characters in A Little Life had no backstory - they were created to serve a sensationalist narrative in a piece of fiction.
At least Will Close hit the back of the net with his acceptance speech >>
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Post by max on Apr 18, 2024 22:42:16 GMT
Everythng about Harry Kane is understated. From the 16-year old working class school leaver with a speech impediment, to the boy accepted into academies and later rejected by Tottenham and Arsenal academies, from being on the verge of being let go again to England's all-time goal scorer, to not wanting to speak in public to addressing the nation in the most difficult circumstances. Many people in the audience would know some of his backstory. The problem is how to represent someone so understated, who let's actions speak for words, in a dramatic national story. The balanced writing of Kane's story was exceptional. Fwiw, I thought the execution was pretty tricky but he pulled it off. In contrast, the characters in A Little Life had no backstory - they were created to serve a sensationalist narrative in a piece of fiction. At least Will Close hit the back of the net with his acceptance speech >> As a fairweather Tottenham Hotspur fan (more of the Gary Mabbutt, Steve Perryman era when I lived near the ground) what you describe above of Kane's background is exactly what I wanted to see more of in the play. Thanks for telling me about it now - I'm more interested in (and impressed by) Kane because of it; the play had its chance and, for me, didn't deliver. The back story of 'A Little Life' is difficult for the group of friends because the central character has held back so much of himself from the others, but I thought Luke Thompson beautifully conveyed how long he'd been waiting for that connection, so that's what moved me. As for the central character, we see his back story from a very young child, right up to today - it's almost all back story, shuffling with the narrative of now. My favourite scene was when we were in three time periods at the same time.
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Post by max on Apr 18, 2024 22:51:47 GMT
Though we disagree aspieandy , thanks for making me think of Spurs and one of my favourite writers Sean O'Casey, and the way in 'The Silver Tassie' soldiers in the trenches of World War One dream of being home: "Would God I smok'd and lifted Cargoes From the laden shoulders of London's river-way; Then holiday'd, roaring out courage and movement To the muscled machines of Tottenham Hotspur."
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Post by kyvai on Apr 20, 2024 6:54:55 GMT
Hehe in that Best Supporting Actor announcement clip, Paul Hilton is doing the Joey Tribbiani “smile and nod” when the cameras are on him 😂😂😂 (Friends nerds will know!)
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