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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 17, 2022 22:44:04 GMT
I found it inexorably boring. Some decent jokes but lots of ludicrously long dialogue scenes. The second half is more interesting (reversing the order of the acts might be interesting). The woman sitting next to me was sound asleep during both halves!
There’s interesting stuff in it, about singular vision versus community, but there’s no real impetus, no single driving question, and no real stakes. The use of direct audience address to explain crucial plot elements felt tired, and I didn’t understand how one minor character who sporadically popped up to soliloquy about her life connected to the rest of the play.
Acting is decent (though no one seems to be playing their characters at 30 years older any differently) but Fiennes is just Fiennes.
Edit: the bit where someone, talking about Fiennes’ character, says: “He’s obsessed with building straight lines. He’s straight line crazy!” is almost beyond parody.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 17, 2022 22:39:42 GMT
Someone in the circle at Straight Line Crazy preview at the Bridge tonight tipped a full glass of beer over the ledge, drenching some very angry women sitting in the stalls below. Presumably not intentional but come on, have some common sense where you put you drinks.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2022 10:57:59 GMT
Honestly, I get invited to so much theatre I sometimes don’t even know the name of what I’m going to see when I sit down.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 8, 2022 17:41:00 GMT
Nice to see the Bush Theatre get two noms.
Pride and Prejudice (Sort of) was robbed!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 4, 2022 0:32:04 GMT
It’s not going to be a drag role, unless there have been substantial changes since the last workshop.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 3, 2022 7:07:15 GMT
Only a small number of the £20 and £32 seats were released, had to be booked pretty far in advance, and you had to snatch them up pretty quickly. On the official website, many dates are showing as prices starting at £125. There’s nothing under £65 at all right now and that’s for the back of the Circle and only limited dates.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 1, 2022 23:03:33 GMT
I follow a number of other Jewish artists on social media and there’s some anger over the report. From reading the report it appears the main point of contact between the Court and “Jewish artists” was one Jewish writer who was already under commission from the Court who first tipped off the Court about private conversations going on in a whatsapp group and volunteered to act as an intermediary, despite having a clear conflict of interest. I have read elsewhere that the writer in question also lives with REM’s director (accused of mishandling or ignoring complaints from Jewish workshop participants), which raises more questions about conflict of interest and ethics.
No one has come out of this looking great.
The Court need to talk to Jewish artists they don’t have pre-existing relationships with, or even to Jewish people who don’t work in new writing theatre and don’t have to worry about keeping in the Court’s good books.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 27, 2022 22:57:43 GMT
Did this ever get a press night, or was it rescheduled again?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 27, 2022 13:43:02 GMT
They announced they were going to. Are there any figures as to how many graduates were actually given auditions, and which drama schools they came from? Obviously they can’t see everyone who applied, but how did they decide who to see and who not to see?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 25, 2022 21:19:25 GMT
James Graham and Simon Stephens, reading this
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 25, 2022 13:35:29 GMT
Gosh this story keeps getting better and better.
It’s hilarious how the witness says “I paid £54 to listen to the performers not a drunken father and daughter” when she snuck out to the lobby to eavesdrop on the drama and had to be told to go back to her seat by staff.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 21, 2022 12:22:44 GMT
Tonight and tomorrow cancelled due to Covid.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 17, 2022 23:16:40 GMT
It’s kinda weird that the YV had two plays in a row featuring Andy Warhol as a character.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 9, 2022 1:03:32 GMT
Had someone behind me munching crisps for two hours straight tonight!! What did she do, pop to Tesco for a multipack beforehand?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 8, 2022 20:38:55 GMT
'Helena is convinced that she and Bertram are #CoupleGoals. He’s not so sure.’ Hashtag CRINGE
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 1, 2022 12:23:41 GMT
I don’t think it’s necessarily that. The Goold/Graham/Elton John musical is due to debut at the Almeida before the W/E then Broadway runs.
It’s probably just a case of what’s available, when. Theatre programming is like playing Tetris half the time.
^Best of Enemies is American and did well.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 31, 2022 16:10:30 GMT
They have already done that with the Open Stages production of Pericles about 10 years ago Oh ? Can’t imagine how I missed that. Maybe also make it all-female this time and have Mark Ravenhill rewrite it as a rap ? Christ don’t give them ideas!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 29, 2022 13:36:24 GMT
This is B******T So what, half the cast got Covid? Are they not double vaccinated and boosted? Covid tests should have been done early this morning and everything should have been done to get that show on tonight. Even if it meant Rupert Gould going on with script in his hand. Denise Wood executive producer on Matilda the musical and Almeida knows how it works by now. Its outrageous to send an email at 6.15. I dont believe them. ANGRY!!!!! One of my best mates is in this. You really think they’re not devastated? You think they didn’t do everything in their power to put the last show on? Of course they’re not lying! Why on earth would they do that? People are sick. We’re still in a pandemic and despite what the government want you to think the situation is still very serious with Covid infections at an all time high. And of course you can’t send a non-actor on to read the show out loud, half the audience would walk out. Wait for the transfer and go see it then.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 26, 2022 17:04:19 GMT
One of the things in the spoiler post above is my absolute worst phobia so I think I’ll skip this! Thank god for reading spoilers.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 26, 2022 11:49:05 GMT
I applied for a job with Punchdrunk recently and their application form asks, “Do you identify as disabled” and then “Are you registered disabled” (something that does not exist in this country, and why do disabled people have to prove they are disabled on a freaking equalities monitoring form?) so Punchdrunk’s awareness of disability seems to be based in the 1950s, if not earlier!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 21, 2022 19:30:10 GMT
The new Dorfman show is nearly four hours long.
Maybe the NT is just an elaborate piece of performance art now.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 5, 2022 0:09:02 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 3, 2022 20:36:48 GMT
King Charles III. (Maybe King Charles III Pt 2 at the Almeida for 2024?)
Laurie Kynaston as the next Doctor.
Boris resigns and swans off into book deal and cushy high paying consultancy gigs.
Rufus Norris steadfastly fails to resign.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 28, 2021 18:40:13 GMT
I love Season’s Greetings.
Chris Bush wrote a lovely play set at Christmas, The Last Noel.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 28, 2021 18:38:36 GMT
Sky Arts “Play in a Day” starts tomorrow, documenting a group of recent graduates performing in a short dance piece, play, and musical all written and rehearsed in 24 hours. James Graham wrote the play and Chris Bush the musical.
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