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Post by David J on May 5, 2020 7:05:17 GMT
Snow in Midsummer
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 22:19:29 GMT
East of Berlin
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 22:14:04 GMT
So many plays beginning with 'The' we could be contributing
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 13:52:44 GMT
Thought I'd borrow this from the other thread. We've had:
A Doll's House Akhnaton Albion All About Eve All My Sons All’s well that ends well And then came the nightjars Burn this C*ck Damned By Despair Dancing at Lughnasa Death and the maiden Death of a Salesman Deathtrap 'Dentity Crisis Di, Viv and Rose Dinner Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth Don Juan in Soho Don Quixote Downstate Dr Faustus Duet for One East East is East Eat Me Eclipsed Educating Rita Edward the Second Eh Joe Eight Hotels Electra Elegy Elephant Man Elling Embers En Suite End of the Rainbow Endgame Enduring Song Enron Enter Laughing Entertaining Mr Sloane Epitaph for George Dillon Equus Europe Eurydice Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Everyman Everything in the garden Exit the King Festen Flare Path Getting Away With Murder Ghost Stories Glengarry Glen Ross Gloria Golden Boy Goodnight Mister Tom Great White Hope Grief is the Thing with Feathers Groan Ups Gundog Gym and Tonic Hand to God Happy Days Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Hay Fever History of Henry the Fourth Hobson's Choice I Hate Hamlet In a Forest Dark and Deep Killer Joe Kindertransport Kiss of the spider woman Knock Knock Krapp's Last Tape Kunene and the King Lady Windermere's Fan Les Liasons Dangereuses Lettice and Lovage Loot Love’s Labours Lost Major Barbara Much Ado About Nothing Nap Hand Nell Gwynn Network Never So Good Never the Sinner Nice Fish Nice People 'night, Mother Nightfall Nine Night No Exit No Man's Land No sex please we're British Noises Off North by Northwest Not About Nightingales Not Now Darling Not Now, Darling Notes For First Time Astronauts Nothing like the Sun NSFW Nut One Night in Miami Oslo Other Desert Cities People, Places and Things Prayer for my enemy Racing Damon Racing Demon Ravens Red Relatively Speaking Richard the Third Road Rock'n'Roll Romeo and Juliet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosmersholm Run For Your Wife Rutherford and Son Saint Joan Salt Of The Earth Scary Bikers Seascape Seasons in the Sun Secret Life of Humans Sejanus Separate Tables September In The Rain Sex and Longing Shafted She Stoops to Conquer Shipwreck Shopping and F*cking Silly Cow Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You Six Characters in Search of an Author Six Degrees of Separation Sleuth Small Craft Warnings Small Island Snowflake Speaking Like Magpies Spiders Web Splendour Star Quality Stepping Out Stones in his pockets Strange Interlude Summer and Smoke Superior Donuts Sweat Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Christopher Bond's play) Take Me Out Taken at Midnight Talent Taming of the Shrew Ten Times Table The Girl On The Train The Glass Menagerie The Inheritance The Mousetrap The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois The Wild Duck Three Tall Women Tis Pity She's a Whore Titus Andronicus To Kill A Mockingbird Toast Touching the Void Travesties Troilus and Cressida True West Twelfth Night Two Two Into One Unexpected Country What the butler saw Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Wild Oats Wise Children Woyzeck Yellow Face Yellow Moon Yerma Yes Prime Minister You Never Can Tell
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 13:02:28 GMT
Superior Donuts
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 12:59:27 GMT
See Rock City and Other Destinations
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 10:01:26 GMT
I searched for Yentl. Only mine came up
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Post by David J on May 4, 2020 7:45:25 GMT
Yentl
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Post by David J on May 3, 2020 22:00:44 GMT
Enduring Song
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Radio Times
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Post by David J on May 3, 2020 19:13:25 GMT
Di, Viv and Rose
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Post by David J on May 3, 2020 15:17:49 GMT
Gundog
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Post by David J on May 2, 2020 23:54:36 GMT
And then came the nightjars
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Post by David J on May 1, 2020 16:12:01 GMT
I found cumberbatch a more convincing monster than miller personally I was expecting someone to write that, and would be really curious to know why? My reason is mostly physique-influenced, tbh: Cumberbatch struck me as somehow both too elegant and too lanky for the Creature, his movements didn't seem as natural as Lee Miller's, who managed to better embody the clumsiness of the Creature and his/(its?) physical struggles for me. Don't get me wrong, I like them both as actors, and I think they were both absolutely terrific in the play, but it was that nuance that was crucial for me. I found his vocal rendition more inhuman than millers. I’d be scared away by him than miller. And I liked how his monster tried to grapple with the human language, enunciating as he could
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Post by David J on Apr 30, 2020 16:42:52 GMT
I found cumberbatch a more convincing monster than miller personally
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Post by David J on Apr 30, 2020 13:42:17 GMT
I see that. I prefer Charles Edwards' Benedick myself. Edward Bennett would just be a few steps above Oliver Chris How about Margaret in Richard III? Sure its one of the few roles for an actress to play, and a juicy one at that cursing everybody. But seeing last year's Headlong production with her cut out really picked up the pace of the play for me. If you are doing a three-part Henry-VI/Richard-III then Margaret is essential, but in R-III as a stand-alone it is unclear to the audience who she actually is and what her relevance is - I agree the Headlong version without her was a big improvement, it surprised me. Agreed. The only Margaret I remember is Katy Stephens. But that was because that was part of Michael Boyd's Histories cycle so you had the context. Also she was using the skeleton of her son to curse everyone Otherwise the play just stops and starts for me with moments like hers, which I put down to the fact that its one of Shakespeare's earliest plays
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Post by David J on Apr 29, 2020 15:12:18 GMT
I wasn't impressed by the Bennett Benedick. Part of that was almost certainly Luscombe's unsubtle direction but also he just didn't work for me overall. Chris isn't right for Benedick - not in the slightest. But so few are! I see that. I prefer Charles Edwards' Benedick myself. Edward Bennett would just be a few steps above Oliver Chris How about Margaret in Richard III? Sure its one of the few roles for an actress to play, and a juicy one at that cursing everybody. But seeing last year's Headlong production with her cut out really picked up the pace of the play for me.
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Post by David J on Apr 29, 2020 12:33:34 GMT
Chris seemed to still be in One Man Two Guvnors. And marveled at the set and stagecraft. He has limited range. He can't get beyond the posh boy persona he keeps playing, which is why Stanley Stubbers was a perfect fit for him. He couldn't even play dictator as Theseus. Edward Bennett is similar but better. His attempts at serious roles like Macduff is not his strongest suit, but he can play comedy well. Can you imagine Oliver Chris playing Benedick?
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Post by David J on Apr 26, 2020 19:58:06 GMT
I've seen some of the arguments that they're innocent and sure it makes me doubt. But could someone explain how Charles Ingram acted like a risk-taker in a show that is designed to play on your doubts that you can answer the increasingly difficult questions when you can take the money instead.
I had another look at the episode on youtube ignoring the coughs (and not the one shown on the official WWTBAM channel where they keep saying LOOK THERE WAS A COUGH). So he had a shaky start in the first episode but maybe he was lucky to get questions he knew the answers to like 'The Ambassadors' and 'Anthony Eden' ones. Then you get the Born to do It, Baron Haussman and the million pound questions and he's doing a complete 180 on his answers. Maybe he was right when he said you only do this once, but the last two were the top tier questions with so much to lose.
"I don't think its Paris". Couple of seconds later "there's a chance its Paris". He seemed so certain it was Berlin as he was convinced Hoblein painted The Ambassadors
I never heard of Googol and yet I think that's the answer
On a side note, why would ITV risk putting on a drama that could influence the public on whether the Ingrams were innocent?
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Post by David J on Apr 14, 2020 13:28:42 GMT
Difficult this. I could just repeat my top 10 plays (new and revival) from the Best 10 Plays of the Decade thread Instead, for the direction, acting, production values combined to enhance the material I'd say - The Orphan of Zhao (2012, Swan Theatre)
- The Rover (2016, Swan Theatre)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2014, Bath)
- A Christmas Carol (2017, Old Vic)
- An Enemy of the People (2016, Chichester)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- This House (2013, Olivier Theatre)
- War Horse
- Peter Pan (2015, Regent's Park)
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle (2015, Unicorn)
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Post by David J on Apr 9, 2020 14:22:29 GMT
- Company (West End, 2018)
- Into the Woods (Regents Park Open Air Theatre, 2010)
- Sweeney Todd (Twickenham Theatre, 2014)
- Gypsy (Chichester/West End, 2014-5)
- Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory, 2014)
- Sweeney Todd (ENO, 2015)
- Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory, 2013)
- Follies (NT Live, 2017)
- Sunday in the Park with George (Théâtre du Châtelet, 2013)
- Sweeney Todd (Chichester/West End, 2011-2)
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Post by David J on Apr 5, 2020 14:27:26 GMT
Early to mid-eighties productions make up a large percentage of your peak Shakespeare lists Yes. It's that thing where you ask people to list their favourite all-time pop music and they list what was popular when they were 13. That describes my list that includes 5 RSC productions from the late 2000s to the early 2010s, when Michael Boyd was in charge.
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Post by David J on Apr 4, 2020 13:53:04 GMT
Only seen the globe theatre Henry VIII recording from 2010. It's good and the best way you can catch the play
King John...well I could mention a certain production the RSC put on about 7 years ago. Directed by someone who did another production that's on my top 10 list above. Bit of a controversial one around there. Personally I liked it for how out of left field it was
Otherwise for a traditional production the 2015 Globe Theatre production was very good. Thrilling at times.
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Post by David J on Apr 4, 2020 0:06:34 GMT
- King Lear (2011, Donmar) - Michael Grandage and Derek Jacobi
- Henry VI (2006, RSC) - Michael Boyd
- As You Like It (2013, RSC) - Maria Aberg, Pippa Nixon, Alex Waldmann, music by Lara Marling
- Henry IV (2010, Globe) - Dominic Drongoole, Roger Allam, Jamie Parker
- Love's Labours Lost (2008, RSC) - Gregory Doran, David Tennant, Edward Bennett, Maria Gale, Oliver Ford Davies, Joe Dixon, Sam Alexander
- Twelfth Night (2017, NT) - Simon Godwin, Tasmin Greig, Phoebe Fox, Tim McMullan, Oliver Chris, Tamara Lawrence
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (2008, RSC) - Gregory Doran, Edward Bennett, Joe Dixon
- The Merchant of Venice (2011 RSC/2014 Almeida) - Ruper Gould, Patrick Stewart/Ian McDiarmid, Susannah Fielding, Scott Handy
- Julius Caesar (2012, RSC) - Gregory Doran, Ray Fearon, Paterson Joseph
- Hamlet (2017, Almeida) - Robert Icke, Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Jessica Brown Findlay
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