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Post by lynette on May 21, 2021 22:13:41 GMT
It was decidedly average and forgettable imo. Entirely agree. I think everyone feels they HAVE to say they loved it because it’s Stoppard and a BIG IMPORTANT PLAY. But actually, nothing really happens, he has nothing to say and it’s not remotely moving or engaging. The sheer size of the cast is also incredibly distracting. It’s big but it ain’t clever. Disagree. I think it is an important play. Tbh perhaps not his best work in terms of the sheer genius of say Arcadia but this is the play he has been leading towards all this time. It is personal and unsettling. My one piece of advice is to get the programme so that you can check the family over your interval drinking. There are Jews being attacked on the streets of London right now. Go see this play.
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Post by lynette on May 21, 2021 22:07:56 GMT
Welcome tot he best thread ...keep em coming. We don’t lower our standards just because..
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Post by lynette on May 17, 2021 17:48:38 GMT
Just booked my vaccinations at the Science Museum . The nhs website let me book. I’m 37. Yet it still says 38 and over Very appropriate venue. One for telling at future dinner parties..
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Post by lynette on May 16, 2021 22:40:33 GMT
Can’t deny it has been slow lately on the Board 🤓 but I’m am ready for the absolute madness number of posts to come from tomorrow. Bring it on people.
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Post by lynette on May 16, 2021 22:38:06 GMT
Yes, I’ve watched one episode so far. I knew nothing about this person, not even his name so am learning...of course I love the visuals but I’m thinking the pace is a bit awry.
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Post by lynette on May 12, 2021 17:33:27 GMT
Meanwhile, from the Help Centre section of the NT's website: "The National Theatre car park is large but can become very busy, especially on Saturdays and other matinee days. We recommend that you arrive early to ensure you can find a place to park." It was only yesterday that I was sent an email by Opera North inviting me to pay £25 to become 'carbon literate'. I would get a recognised certificate, and everything! If i can’t park there, I’m not going. Simples.
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Post by lynette on May 11, 2021 20:19:12 GMT
It is all stuff we had planned for last year just moved and reimagined for 2021. But it shows what you can do if a company pulls together. I’m impressed but unlike the RSC your stars don't have film commitments ? 😁
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Post by lynette on May 11, 2021 20:13:33 GMT
I really enjoyed The National Theatre Story by DANIEL ROSENTHAL. Its a huge book, about 900 pages, and finishes in 2011 but gives attendances for the shows. Plays I really liked were often not that well attended. The NT always need to have a sell out show in one of the big theatres to bring in the money. At one stage a National Opera House was planned next door. A shame that it never happened. I remember getting it cheap on the internet but can't remember where from. Its well written and very interesting reading. Yes, a super book.
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Post by lynette on May 10, 2021 21:08:58 GMT
Even the local group that I am involved in is being more ambitious than the RSC this year We are doing an outdoor season of The Cherry Orchard and As You Like It. A couple of shorts - Baggage and It's True! It's True!It's True. Then an autumn season of a new verse translation of Andromache followed by Our Country's Good. We are also producing a radio play of a script that won our new writing competition. If enthusiastic amateurs can do that in 6 months, what the hell are the RSC doing with all their millions? Marvellous season, oxfordsimon.
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Post by lynette on May 10, 2021 21:06:00 GMT
I am so saddened by the previous posts. How can you learn anything if you don't read the whole text? Back in my day, medieval times of course, we were not told which ‘quotes’ to learn or what ideas to learn. Even when I was teaching the kids read the whole text, even the opaque bits. How i enjoyed explaining the opening scenes of R&J with its rude insults! I’ve since seen the diluting of the texts, particularly Shakespeare. V sad. I find that kids respond to a challenge and know when they are short changed. Less leads to less and less...
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Post by lynette on May 10, 2021 17:52:51 GMT
Lasted ten minutes I’m afraid. Narration has to reveal and not describe.
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 19:55:23 GMT
Yes this is terrible and it seems communities that are vaccine shy. Need a big vaccine drive - we must drive this on - on telly etc for the young people to get jabbed. Young people aren't getting offered it yet. It's not the young people's fault. Tired of this narrative being pushed. Unless you are at risk the vaccines are still for 40+ lot at the moment. I know no one my age who would turn it down, but we aren't being offered it. I am thinking ahead - you will soon be offered it. I’m thinking we need to keep the momentum as it were.
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 19:52:23 GMT
He is saying that Osborne broke through with new theatre..well he did. Of course we can now look back on Rattigan, Noel Coward and see more than perhaps their contemporaries did and some say that Osborne lead to Eastenders and not much else. If Hare thinks he has made a major contribution, well he isn’t wrong. But he isn’t that crass. What he wants is that theatre becomes what we all talk about rather than Line of Duty...but v hard to make that happen. In a funny sort of way, the televising of plays which has been happening during Covid time might help make people think a night at the theatre would be interesting. Theatre going is a bug though, one you need to be exposed to early on... I meant the bit where he says he can't think of playwrights under 50 who can fill theatres. He sounds embittered. Has he not heard of Phoebe Waller-Bridge? Lucy Prebble? Mike Bartlett? James Graham? Oh yes, Hare does seem a little out of touch. 😂
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 18:39:23 GMT
It's been underreported due to the elections (hmm, handy, that!) but the Indian variant is on the rise here in the North of England, lots of clusters including in schools. Yes this is terrible and it seems communities that are vaccine shy. Need a big vaccine drive - we must drive this on - on telly etc for the young people to get jabbed.
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 18:35:49 GMT
He is saying that Osborne broke through with new theatre..well he did. Of course we can now look back on Rattigan, Noel Coward and see more than perhaps their contemporaries did and some say that Osborne lead to Eastenders and not much else. If Hare thinks he has made a major contribution, well he isn’t wrong. But he isn’t that crass. What he wants is that theatre becomes what we all talk about rather than Line of Duty...but v hard to make that happen. In a funny sort of way, the televising of plays which has been happening during Covid time might help make people think a night at the theatre would be interesting. Theatre going is a bug though, one you need to be exposed to early on...
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Post by lynette on May 6, 2021 17:06:27 GMT
I’m way out on a limb here but perhaps the casting of Mamillius was also dependent on the covid restrictions. Having a little child play the part was possibly not practical under the circumstances. As for colour, I just never want to go down the road of “oh, he is a little bit black, maybe Mediterranean, or perhaps a throw back to his grannie...” This is quite terrible imo. I don't want to have to think about it. The acting is all.
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Post by lynette on May 6, 2021 16:53:37 GMT
So how dusty and spiderwebby was it?
(I'm sure there must be some people who have gone back to work to discover that someone didn't empty the fridge and now they need a crowbar and a flamethrower.)
Very! somebody left some fresh soup in the fridge - I'm staying well away. Might have an other vaccine there then 😂
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Post by lynette on May 3, 2021 18:05:51 GMT
We haven't had results from all the test events. Hoping for the best -just watching the snooker crowd greeting the event and the players is emotional.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:20:45 GMT
Fantastic programme.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:10:24 GMT
Hi guys, please don’t just post stuff from other platforms. We can find other platforms if we want to. People come to the Board for the unique take of theatregoers and for our own opinions.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:08:24 GMT
That’s life, eh? Possibility of new series.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:07:01 GMT
Might be speaking out of turn but phoning might get appointments earlier and nearer. Find the number of nearest centre and if not right place then possibly will be directed to correct number. A few actual calls might get result. Internet isn’t always best place to arrange things.
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Post by lynette on May 1, 2021 13:56:10 GMT
It may not be entirely good news because if it bounces back with a vengeance in a few years there'll be some young children with no natural resistance to it, but it turns out that the sorts of steps we've been using to fight SARS-CoV-2 are extremely effective against flu. Deaths in the US this winter have been only 2% of the number two years ago.
You’re right, The Matthew. Not only flu ( we do have a jab for us old uns and for young uns who ask for it I think) but other stuff. When finally we are able to mingle I fear that kids who have not had their usual jabs for whatever reasons, health based or idiotic parents, will suffer.
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Post by lynette on May 1, 2021 13:52:24 GMT
My understanding is that when someone is shot by a police person in UK there is an enquiry albeit within the service. Everything in Lof D happens in super quick time.
By the way, has everyone been watching the bent coppers three parter on BBC, even more jaw dropping than LofD. Real times, real crimes, real bent coppers. Horrifying.
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Post by lynette on Apr 28, 2021 12:38:13 GMT
Maybe depressing but I do not see how a pandemic of this nature can be ‘over’ overnight. We shall need careful management of crowds, masks perhaps voluntary and jabs ad infinitum. Not to mention the scientific monitoring of new variants, effective treatments and so on. Just as we do for other contagious diseases. All the time. And of course, do not forget the affect on our mental health. We have, as a nation, as a planet, had a nasty shock. This will take a long time to process. Nowadays we like everything instant. I”m as impatient as the next person, but this is a slow burner. It feeds into the worst fears of mankind and I expect will turn up for many years in our arts and cultural development., though as with other shocks, we might like to bury it for a while.
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