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Jul 28, 2017 23:09:05 GMT
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Post by sanddeep on Jul 28, 2017 23:09:05 GMT
I thought Mr Burns was amazing and will see anything with even the most tenuous connection to it at the drop of a hat.
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Post by mikey on Jul 29, 2017 6:29:36 GMT
So glad to see some others here also loved Mr Burns as well! Very excited to check out Twilight Zone.
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Post by lonlad on Jul 30, 2017 1:19:12 GMT
Mr Burns was extraordinary --- one of the best things the Almeida has done.
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Jul 30, 2017 7:31:27 GMT
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Post by Jan on Jul 30, 2017 7:31:27 GMT
Saying it out loud may get any 'theatre-going credibility' karma I've gained to be removed, but I have to confess that it's Twilight Zone that most intrigues me from this line up. I don't know what the playwright is like, but with the right choice of short stories and tone, this sounds like great fun. Like adult panto. It is a good idea but like everything else he directs Jones will kill it stone dead - he'll make it all about himself as usual.
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Post by showgirl on Jul 30, 2017 13:50:45 GMT
I'd be more likely to book for productions at the Almeida on the basis of an assurance (some hope, I know) that they will be nothing like those I've previously loathed there, including Mr Burns. After all, some cinema chains say in their promotional info "See this if you liked..." and proceed to list 3 earlier films likely to have appealed to a similar audience. Now if theatres could instead give advice on the lines of "Don't see this if you didn't like..." they might be onto something.
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Post by foxa on Jul 30, 2017 21:24:54 GMT
Saying it out loud may get any 'theatre-going credibility' karma I've gained to be removed, but I have to confess that it's Twilight Zone that most intrigues me from this line up. I don't know what the playwright is like, but with the right choice of short stories and tone, this sounds like great fun. Like adult panto. It is a good idea but like everything else he directs Jones will kill it stone dead - he'll make it all about himself as usual. I have to agree with you both. Twilight Zone did excite me and I booked for it right away and then ...noticed Richard Jones is directing it. I swore in my Once in a Lifetime review I would never go to see another of his productions and now my enthusiasm for the Twilight Zone has made me a liar.
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Aug 1, 2017 8:08:58 GMT
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Post by publius on Aug 1, 2017 8:08:58 GMT
Mr Burns was extraordinary --- one of the best things the Almeida has done. On the day I saw Mr Burns the theatre was 3/4 full. A scattering of those left at the first interval and a quarter of those remaining left during the second one... Fair to say that it divided opinion!
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 1, 2017 9:32:02 GMT
I was one of few who seemed to enjoy Mr Burns the more it went on. The first section I found pretty dull but I thought that the choral ceremony at the end brilliantly showed how beliefs become perversely twisted out of a mundane reality.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 9:38:57 GMT
Imagine being one of the people who left Mr Burns at the second interval and stumbling across the production photos. You'd be doomed to always wonder what on EARTH was happening there.
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Post by Latecomer on Aug 1, 2017 10:20:56 GMT
I too liked Mr Burns....I like my theatre mad and so that it makes me think! I agree with Cardinal P.....
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Post by PalelyLaura on Aug 1, 2017 10:25:36 GMT
I too loved Mr Burns, and thought it was a prime example of why I think it's a bad idea to leave plays in the interval.
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Post by foxa on Aug 1, 2017 11:44:36 GMT
I liked Mr Burns as well - and I enjoyed the three distinct changes between the acts. I enjoyed the hyper-realism of the first act - I wasn't bored at all - and thought the last act was beautiful and strange, though probably the most difficult. However I can't imagine what Jones will do with The Twilight Zone - I assume make it flat and mannered.
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Post by foxa on Aug 1, 2017 12:11:36 GMT
In preparation for seeing The Twilight Zone - you might want to check this out: It's a 'Top Ten' compilation of some of the most famous episodes - the last two mentioned: Time Enough At Last and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet became iconic and have been referenced frequently.
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Post by jadnoop on Aug 1, 2017 12:50:48 GMT
In preparation for seeing The Twilight Zone - you might want to check this out: It's a 'Top Ten' compilation of some of the most famous episodes - the last two mentioned: Time Enough At Last and Nightmare at 20,000 Feet became iconic and have been referenced frequently. The page on the Almeida website lists Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont who are writers for certain episodes, rather than the show's creators, so it looks like they're adapting specific episodes rather than the general format of the show. I wonder how they'll deal with the fact that twists are a big part of the appeal, but some of the big episodes are part of popular culture these days.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 1, 2017 13:30:02 GMT
Another good couple of episodes to check out are 'Walking Distance" and 'The Monsters are Due on Maple Street'.
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Post by fossil on Aug 1, 2017 14:59:54 GMT
Impressed by the Box Office on Saturday. While at "Ink," I went to collect some tickets I'd booked for the next season. Without me even having to ask, the lady kindly offered to hang on to my row A "Summer and Smoke" ticket (treated myself, well, it's Ferran), as they might be putting row AA in, and made a note I'd like to swap if possible. Apparently, it is easier to move me if they have the ticket - saves me returning it. Great service . They have done that for me a couple of times. As with you, they offered without being asked.
Unlike a few years ago at the Royal Court when I went to collect my front row tickets for Sugar Mummies and was handed tickets for back row seats without a word of explanation. When I queried this I was told they had had to remove the front row as sand on the stage was being kicked onto the patrons in the front row so had to move us. No apologies, no warning in advance even though they had my contact details.
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Aug 1, 2017 17:24:25 GMT
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Post by Jan on Aug 1, 2017 17:24:25 GMT
I liked Mr Burns as well - and I enjoyed the three distinct changes between the acts. I enjoyed the hyper-realism of the first act - I wasn't bored at all - and thought the last act was beautiful and strange, though probably the most difficult. However I can't imagine what Jones will do with The Twilight Zone - I assume make it flat and mannered. We know what Jones will do. He directs in a way you could term "expressionistic". This involves several of: 1) Day-glo lighting 2) Sets with exaggerated perspective 3) Exaggerated costumes 4) Non-naturalistic acting 5) Choreographed non-naturalistic movement He implements this irrespective of what the play is. Sometimes it sort of works (The Trial) but mostly it just gets in the way of the play. I've seen The Government Inspector several times and his version was the only one that wasn't in the slightest bit amusing - all his stupid projections of random words just distracting from the play. In this case The Twilight Zone itself is almost from the same tradition but Jones is just so heavy-handed it is unlikely to work. Robert Icke should have been directing this (as he did Mr Burns) but I suppose he was too busy with Mary Stuart and Oedipus. Didn't see Mr Burns - sounded like an updating of Riddley Walker and A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Aug 1, 2017 17:24:47 GMT
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Post by Jan on Aug 1, 2017 17:24:47 GMT
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