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Post by lou105 on Feb 3, 2017 18:52:15 GMT
Cancelled tonight due to "sudden cast illness". No news on tomorrow as yet, though they say they "expect" to go ahead.
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Post by lou105 on Feb 4, 2017 12:27:34 GMT
Both performances going ahead today
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Post by bingomatic on Feb 12, 2017 17:32:50 GMT
Really glad I booked this and paid top dollar for a stalls ticket. Wasn't convinced when it opened in the boardroom of a hedge fund? options trading? firm and the concern about 14 Francs for a horse just didn't ring true. However... what a wonderful performance from Gemma Arterton. First time I've seen her on stage and I thought she nailed Joan perfectly. I actually preferred the first act to the second. I thought the scene with Baudricourt was wonderful. I was expecting some coup de theatre for the inevitable burning but not wanting to post a spoiler I'll say no more on that score.
France for the French !
Anyone who couldn't take Joan's side in this play is heartless !
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Post by lynette on Feb 18, 2017 23:11:55 GMT
Just saw this, last performance I think. TM I really think it was better than you say. I thought the contemporary setting made the speech fresh again for me and - how do they do it?- quite pertinent to today. I mean here we have a play about nationalism and the ruling elite and the power of an organised religion and what a brilliant idea to have the inquisitor American. Shades of The Crucible but even more so, his cynical equivocation and that terrifying certainty. Loved it. Maybe Shaw is at last finding an audience again after a bit of the doldrums.
Classy performances all round. I like Gemma Arterton very much, so look forward to whatever she does next. Anyone know?
Dontcha just love Elliot Levey's voice?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 9:23:10 GMT
Classy performances all round. I like Gemma Arterton very much, so look forward to whatever she does next. Anyone know? Not sure about stage work but I think her next role in film is playing Vita Sackville-West with Eva Green as Virginia Woolf in an adaptation of the play 'Vita & Virginia' by Dame Eileen Atkins. |
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Post by lou105 on Feb 20, 2017 13:03:28 GMT
Before Newsies at the cinema, we had a trailer for a film with Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy, which is out in April, called Their Finest. "A British film crew attempts to boost morale during World War II by making a propaganda film after the Blitzkrieg." Looked interesting.
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