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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 15:39:32 GMT
Considering that the RSC's remit is staging plays from an era when female playwrights were thin on the ground* that's pretty damning. In a way it's like the Oscars, if you don't at least notice that there's an issue then you are likely to be part of the problem. *I see they are doing Behn's The Rover soon; that alongside Two Noble Kinsmen means a nice trip to Stratford for me next Christmas! |
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Post by joem on Apr 10, 2016 21:42:52 GMT
Ross! A Rattigan I haven't seen yet! How utterly wonderful!!!
There is a theory Queen Elizabet (the first) wrote Shakespeare's plays so there's your quota for the next five hundred years.
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Post by theatreliker on Apr 11, 2016 9:38:17 GMT
The RSC are transferring Love's Labour's Lost and Won from CFT to the Haymarket, presumably early next year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 9:45:22 GMT
9 December 2016 – 18 March 2017, according to the press release on the RSC website.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 10:05:45 GMT
I should really learn to check for other events in the area when booking for places like Chichester
After managing to book for War of the Roses in Kingston last year on a day when there was a nearby World Cup Rugby match, I've booked for Ross for next Saturday which is the weekend of Goodwood Festival of Speed (no, me neither!) - a massive event which means hotels in the Chichester area are all fully booked or charging crazy prices, trains will be packed (and services in the area are currently affected by various issues anyway), and in previous years there have been massive traffic problems in the surrounding area.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 10:33:10 GMT
Yeah I'd leave early and go by car if at all possible. I live in Brighton and trains down here are complete nightmare, often being cancelled within mins of departing. Got to Clapham junction 10.30pm on Wednesday and didn't get to Brighton until 1.25am!
If u can't go by car then I would genuinely think about cancelling coz there is a large chance u will get stranded
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 10:36:34 GMT
Yes, that was my thinking! I'd pretty much decided to drive but then realised the chaos likely from Goodwood.  Anyone local to Chichester fancy seeing a matinee of Ross on the 25th (face value £27) |
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Post by David J on Jun 17, 2016 11:25:47 GMT
I may be saving you the trouble xanderl by saying that you're not missing much.
Good play, and Joseph Fiennes is the highlight. But lots of characters come and go before you can get an emotional attachment, and as reviews have said the accuracy and tone is questionable
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Post by Snciole on Jun 17, 2016 11:42:06 GMT
I should really learn to check for other events in the area when booking for places like Chichester After managing to book for War of the Roses in Kingston last year on a day when there was a nearby World Cup Rugby match, I've booked for Ross for next Saturday which is the weekend of Goodwood Festival of Speed (no, me neither!) - a massive event which means hotels in the Chichester area are all fully booked or charging crazy prices, trains will be packed (and services in the area are currently affected by various issues anyway), and in previous years there have been massive traffic problems in the surrounding area. Boo! Me too, but I booked a matinee on purpose because I sensed it might be a pain but might see how bad it is on the day! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 11:45:27 GMT
The Goodwood festival starts on Thursday so I guess keep an eye on traffic reports for the first couple of days!
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Post by CG on the loose on Jun 17, 2016 11:48:59 GMT
I should really learn to check for other events in the area when booking for places like Chichester After managing to book for War of the Roses in Kingston last year on a day when there was a nearby World Cup Rugby match, I've booked for Ross for next Saturday which is the weekend of Goodwood Festival of Speed (no, me neither!) - a massive event which means hotels in the Chichester area are all fully booked or charging crazy prices, trains will be packed (and services in the area are currently affected by various issues anyway), and in previous years there have been massive traffic problems in the surrounding area. Boo! Me too, but I booked a matinee on purpose because I sensed it might be a pain but might see how bad it is on the day! Me three, but with First Light in the evening as well. Guess I'll start out super-early and hope that at least the journey home will be less troublesome! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 11:58:02 GMT
Goodwood finishes about 7PM I think so you should be fine driving after the evening show
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 12:34:41 GMT
If you go to the SpeedBoard website and visit their Festivals forum to read the Goodwood Festival of Speed thread, you will find xanderm complaining that she has just realised that her travel may be disrupted by hordes of people driving to Chichester to see Ross and First Light.
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Post by showgirl on Jun 18, 2016 15:25:10 GMT
Boo! Me too, but I booked a matinee on purpose because I sensed it might be a pain but might see how bad it is on the day! Me three, but with First Light in the evening as well. Guess I'll start out super-early and hope that at least the journey home will be less troublesome! I four, and I even moved my bookings to get them both on the same day and save chancing the ghastly trains twice in a week. Furthermore, once I knew how long Ross was, I arranged to see that at the matinee and First Light in the evening, thinking it couldn't possibly be as long - well, it isn't, but at 2 hours 35 and with a 7.45 pm start, getting home is looking decidedly dodgy and yes, I also investigated hotels and found them all full of Goodwood-goers - as indeed the trains (if running) usually are. Maybe we should hire a minibus?! |
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