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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 22:40:28 GMT
Leading actors won’t work there at all at the moment. It’s a weak shortlist apparently. Noone exciting has applied. I didn't say ‘exciting’ ……. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 22:38:42 GMT
Fish rots from the head, doesn’t it?
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 22:37:44 GMT
I had a family behind me at Pretty Woman on Friday with who I presume were their two young daughters - around 5 and 7. The mother spent the first half loudly telling them both to close their eyes every time there was any kissing/changing etc, with both the girls shouting “EWWWW!” throughout. The parents then spent a good chunk of time discussing how inappropriate and unnecessary it all was. I mean, surely when you chose to to see Pretty Woman, you had a vague idea of the storyline?! I was quite glad they didn’t return after the interval. How odd people are. Do you think they thought it was about pretty women? ( repeat of anecdote about my OH’s grandma and auntie who thought they were going to see travelogue about Scotland : Bonnie and Clyde. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 22:34:41 GMT
So I hope they make some money wherever it is held and all thanks to that nice chap who came second. Well done!
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 17:36:20 GMT
I think they need to get the programming right so that the summer season is dazzling for tourists and school hols and the Xmas period has at least two showstoppers, Xmassy thing and a regular Willie, prob a comedy. So they need a person who relates to the rhythm of the place and the demographics, who is commercial in mind but won’t compromise on quality, who loves Shakespeare wholeheartedly and trusts that Willie wrote good plays ( not always obvious in my experience) who engages some of our gifted actors, trusts them to act and not be overwhelmed by tech and directors’ ‘ideas’, who really wants the job but wont be disheartened by the crap which will engulf their desk almost immediately…..
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 17:29:24 GMT
For someone who is not british- is Shakespeare's language relatively easy to understand in this one? Dreading another Under Milk Wood... You should be ok as the big moments are funny, usually done very physically. To be honest I would look up the plot before you see it. The first ten minutes often go misunderstood - the thing is that the soldiers have met the family before and know Hero and Beatrice. And of course Dogberry the clown character misuses language so don't worry too much about that but again, usually well pointed. Any other tips from them as already seen this production? |
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 17:18:44 GMT
I was once told that you can apply to see some progs that are not available to the public but this was before streaming took off. I expect you still can apply ..and pay..to see stuff.
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Post by lynette on Jul 23, 2022 22:13:29 GMT
I’m breathless with anticipation. Is this event happening? Where and when?
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Post by lynette on Jul 23, 2022 22:06:09 GMT
David Suchet joined the queue waiting to enter the Harold Pinter for The Seagull. Whilst his determination to act like a normal person is to be lauded, he was immediately surrounded by people pestering him who wouldn't even let him join the queue. I mentioned this to a member of staff on my way in and he went off to rescue him. He may be a famous actor and a national treasure but the man does deserve t be able to go on a night out without being bothered all the time. Interesting. Back in the day, Dustin Hoffman was in Stratford for the weekend with his family. Nobody bothered him, nada. I watched from afar in the restaurant as it was then and in the gallery of the Swan, he was in the stalls. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 22, 2022 15:23:03 GMT
So designed for pro arch th, when and where do you think it will come to in west end?
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Post by lynette on Jul 22, 2022 15:17:35 GMT
So you google soho new theatre and you get the one that has been there for ages. How do they expect people to find them, know what they are putting on and for goodness sake, what on earth has Soho got to do with anything? It is miles away from soho isn’t it? Might have been more fun to name it after Judi Dench or someone alive and kicking who could bring in the punters. What’s the first show, then? Anyone know?
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Post by lynette on Jul 22, 2022 15:13:51 GMT
"After The Times conducted a survey of facilities — counting seven cubicles in the female space on two levels compared with three urinals and one cubicle in the male areas — Burns said her “secret had been discovered”. Thats still a very small number of toilets for 600 people. 7 loos? 7? Crazy small number. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 18, 2022 12:55:50 GMT
(plus I hate it when the audience laugh at the Kill Claudio line and she played it so much for laughs that it probably got the biggest laugh of the night) Ugh, I hate that too. Catherine Tate played her Beatrice extremely comedic, but she delivered that line so straight it silenced the entire audience at a stroke. Indeed. You wonder how the young chap acting in the original prod did it. Those lads must have been amazing actors. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 18, 2022 12:53:55 GMT
The antibiotic cream I use twice daily, for rosacea, has the instruction "Store below 25C. Do not refrigerate." Wondering what I'm supposed to do with it when no where other than the fridge is going to be below 25C today & tomorrow. Also wishing we had a chest freezer rather than an ordinary upright one, so I could do a Snowman & get into it! Have you got a cool bag or a bottle cooler bag or someat? Or wrap in damp flannel which you can make into an ice flannel in the freezer ( put flat flannel laid into a plastic bag and when it freezes it is still foldable round something) |
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Post by lynette on Jul 15, 2022 19:27:26 GMT
Has anyone else seen this yet? I enjoyed it a lot on a superficial level - lots of fun, lovely design and costumes, great physical humour, good ensemble. John Heffernan was brilliant, possibly the best Benedick I’ve seen. I wasn’t sure about Katherine Parkinson though, even though I’ve loved her in other things. She was very funny, but I didn’t really believe in her in the more serious scenes. Phew, glad it is lots of fun. I was worried they might do something odd with it. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 15, 2022 19:25:46 GMT
We are going next week. Having TodayTix vouchers that needed using up, we booked cheap gallery seats a few months ago as it kinda suited with the vouchers and the seats are *ok*. Just got an email, gallery closed and new seats of row F in the stalls, a considerably more expensive section.
Guess this ain't doing so well at all.
The warm weather providing other diversions maybe? |
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Post by lynette on Jul 15, 2022 19:24:52 GMT
Well I was booked for this and much ado on 30th so that's all gone down the pan. I know they'll move tickets but I doubt I'll find a seat at right place and date again. Awful. My daughter it booked to travel to Edinburgh on 30th to tech a show. Her line might not be affected but unreliable. I hope you can reorganise the trip. I’m doing Much Ado on 17th matinee. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 15, 2022 19:19:58 GMT
I remember ‘76 v well indeed. I woz there as they say of the sixties. It was lovely! Sorry folks, it was fine for me in London, lived in a maisonette and on holiday most of it ( teacher 🤪 in secondary school) You could arrange outdoor parties with no concern about possible rain. It went on for weeks until the gov appointed a Minister for drought and then it rained. I wasn’t affected at all by the agricultural problems, the lack of water or the heat. The effects might have been ongoing, I expect economically with hindsight they were but ‘O to be young was very heaven ‘ or someat Wordsworth said..
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Post by lynette on Jul 9, 2022 16:31:53 GMT
lynette , yes. The air con/ventilation (circulation of air?) is quite good. (I went last night and the only reason why I noticed was because I forgot to take a mask, which I'd normally wear in a theatre, and this made me slightly reassured. I was row A, right next to the stage, so perhaps it's a bit better there, but that I cannot be sure of. But it seemed pretty fine to me.) Yep, nice and cool throughout. Made it possible to concentrate on the ideas. Very well acted and presented though the contract between the original historical setting and the modern language jars at first. Then it dawns that the play reflects what it is about, the idea of what marriage is , then, now and in the future. Lots to chat about but not a first date… |
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Post by lynette on Jul 8, 2022 13:50:06 GMT
Quick q - is it air con in there? Box office very ambiguous response.
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Post by lynette on Jun 25, 2022 21:00:51 GMT
I’m looking for the same seats I would have bought pre pandemic and they are now much more expensive. And that is everywhere.
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Post by lynette on Jun 18, 2022 21:59:55 GMT
Well that was it, the heatwave.
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Post by lynette on Jun 18, 2022 11:50:24 GMT
Put some water in the fridge now and also put some wet flannels in the freezer, wrapped in plastic bags. Then tomorrow you can use the flannels to place on your head ( trust me) and sip the water. Also sit with your feet in a bowl or bucket of cold water. Don’t just suffer, use simple stuff to keep the body temp down. If you have a cold or covid, same, don’t let body temp go too high. Unfortunately I'm only reading this now, when it's (far too slowly) cooling down (slightly). Hope you are ok. It is drizzling and chilly where I am now. |
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Post by lynette on Jun 18, 2022 11:49:28 GMT
I’m at a loss here. I thought the Scots didn't want anything to do with the UK so why are they bidding for a BBC production which is only a possibility because an English lad sang a song very well? British, English, UK..?
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Post by lynette on Jun 16, 2022 22:16:46 GMT
Dreading tomorrow, which is forecast to be 33 degrees in Cambridge, especially as I'm currently suffering from my first cold (or covid, don't know which) since October 2019. I hate having a cold at any time, but in hot weather I find it particularly awful. I'm also having to stay upstairs in my bedroom all day, rather than being able to retreat to the cooler downstairs at the hottest part of the day, because I'm trying to keep away from my mother to try (probably in vain) not to pass on whatever germs I have to her. Put some water in the fridge now and also put some wet flannels in the freezer, wrapped in plastic bags. Then tomorrow you can use the flannels to place on your head ( trust me) and sip the water. Also sit with your feet in a bowl or bucket of cold water. Don’t just suffer, use simple stuff to keep the body temp down. If you have a cold or covid, same, don’t let body temp go too high. |
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