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Post by Jan on Dec 10, 2017 17:25:44 GMT
What links the following plays/musicals ?
Annie, Rent, A Doll’s House, The Man Who Came To Dinner
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Dec 10, 2017 17:35:17 GMT
Post by dippy on Dec 10, 2017 17:35:17 GMT
Sorry, I'm in a silly mood, my answer is that what links them is that you just listed them all together.
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Dec 10, 2017 17:37:35 GMT
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Post by loureviews on Dec 10, 2017 17:37:35 GMT
Christmas setting.
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Dec 10, 2017 18:04:36 GMT
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Post by Jan on Dec 10, 2017 18:04:36 GMT
Correct. Any others ? Is Twelfth Night explicitly set at Xmas for example ? Apart from the title I don’t think so. |
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Dec 10, 2017 18:05:18 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 18:05:18 GMT
All four have political themes? 😂😂
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Post by Jan on Dec 10, 2017 18:08:28 GMT
Alan Ayckbourn's "Season's Greetings" of course.
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Dec 10, 2017 21:06:37 GMT
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Post by vdcni on Dec 10, 2017 21:06:37 GMT
Promises, Promises is set at Christmas isn't it?
There's a Thornton Wilder one act play. The Long Christmas Dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 13:43:24 GMT
Not that there’s any mention of it in the musical, but Jean Valjean’s rescue of Cosette takes place at Christmas. He finds her wandering in the wood on Christmas Eve and returns to the inn with her where he sees how badly she is treated by the Thenardiers. During the night he sees that Eponine and her sister Azelma have left their shoes by the hearth in expectation of gifts from Pere Noel, and- of course- they have been filled by their parents. He then notices Cosette’s little clog at a distance from the others, and sees that it has been left empty. Valjean places a gold coin inside so she will feel it in the morning when she puts it on. (The dolly he gives her in the musical is a Christmas gift from him. It is something he has seen her admiring in a shop window, hence the French title of Castle on a Cloud which is La Poupee dans la Vitrine.)
(A beautiful little scene that could easily have been suggested in the musical I always thought...)
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Dec 12, 2017 21:48:21 GMT
Post by profquatermass on Dec 12, 2017 21:48:21 GMT
Most of the second half of She Loves Me is set at Christmas, finishing on Christmas Eve
The Holly and the Ivy - I've only seen the film (Ralph Richardson is a vicar whose Chekhovian family come home for Christmas) but I assume it was a play first
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Dec 17, 2017 14:48:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 14:48:00 GMT
In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp. It even contains sing-along songs (hahaha!)
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Dec 17, 2017 16:04:47 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 16:04:47 GMT
We shouldn’t forget this one...  |
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