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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 20, 2020 12:45:20 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 17, 2020 8:16:24 GMT
What’s going on with the Donmar? Cast members are tweeting that Far Away has been cancelled but the Donmar themselves haven’t said a word, are silent on social media, are still selling tickets and I just received an email from them saying this evening’s performance is going ahead which clearly is not true.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2020 22:37:51 GMT
Bunker cancelling too.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2020 22:31:13 GMT
Jana is the poet/singer in the bathroom in the NY scene. In the original production she’s actually the main character. The script and indeed the whole story appears to be substantially changed.
(I only know because someone told me; if not I would have assumed she was a random friend when she popped up in Amsterdam.)
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 14, 2020 22:14:38 GMT
And Sondheim's Saturday Night was cancelled too!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 13, 2020 9:38:55 GMT
It’s about a disgraced televangelist who became a gay icon because she was one of the first or at the time one of the only high profile Christians to publicly support and embrace the LGBT community during the AIDS epidemic.
Filming just wrapped on the Jessica Chastain movie and the Chenoweth musical is in development hell.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 13, 2020 1:16:00 GMT
When TheatreBoard gets the drop on Baz three months early. 😁😁😁 Loads! Chastain’s A Doll’s House. Magic Goes Wrong (opens this month but won’t be seeing it till Jan) The James Graham/Elton John musical at the Almeida. Far Away at the Donmar. A Number at the Bridge. The Pullman adaptation at the Bridge. That seven hour Seven Streams play at the NT. Jack Absolute sounds fun at least.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 9, 2020 9:33:36 GMT
Oh, I saw the subject and thought someone had invented a theatre-themed theme park.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 3, 2020 12:28:43 GMT
Either Watford or Kingston, depending if you’re in North or South London.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 3, 2020 12:26:29 GMT
Because they disliked it, or because they needed emergency spinal reconstruction surgery?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 28, 2020 17:24:40 GMT
She was a member of the RSC ensemble (back when they did ensembles) for two years when she first graduated from drama school. Admittedly she’s done very little Shakespeare professionally but she’s a classically trained actress and has a solid stage CV.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 24, 2020 13:16:27 GMT
I went for the first time recently. A real mixed bag. I’m not sure if they have an artistic strategy or if they programme anyone who wants to hire the space.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 24, 2020 13:13:30 GMT
It’s an excellent piece of writing and highly accomplished for a first play. Is it pedantic to say I wish they’d stop claiming it came through their unsolicited play script programme when they requested it due to prior relationships with the writer and producer?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 20, 2020 11:06:33 GMT
Maybe some stuff at Vault?
This might be my golden opportunity to finally see the Mousetrap.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 19, 2020 13:14:31 GMT
I'm no Norris fan either, but I'm surprised keen theatregoers can't find even one thing they might want to see, in such a lengthy and varied list of plays, new writing, adaptations, classics, and musicals. One concern is that the NT is originating only one new play not based on another source, the April de Angelis. I've never seen anything by her (in 30 years of theatre-going) but she isn't a major name; she may be respected within theatre circles but hasn't made an impact beyond that. Where are the big-name writers writing original stuff? Jez Butterworth? Lucy Prebble? Martin McDonagh? I'm cringing as I write this because I know it's super twatty to be all "ooh I know stuff I can't talk about publicly" but they have one play that absolutely meets your criteria in the works. I'm friends with a few of 'big name' writers, and the issue really is that there are not so many major name writers, and they're all hugely busy and in-demand, and few of them want the poisoned chalice of writing for the Olivier. Money is part of it too. I'm sure the NT board would trample their own grandmothers to be able to debut a new Butterworth play, but it's not that easy.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 14, 2020 14:09:16 GMT
I ❤ YOU theatreboard (and all who sail in her).
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 14, 2020 14:08:09 GMT
Happy to hear this. I wasn't completely sold on the format, but I do love Mischief Theatre a lot and will continue to watch anything they put out.
On the third show, I assumed it was dead too, but I think they mentioned something in the Terri Paddock Q&A last month implying it was still in the works? I'd need to go back and re-watch to confirm.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 14, 2020 12:59:08 GMT
They do have one major 'name' commission underway, which I know will excite some members here (ooer misus). I don't think writing is complete yet so probably a year or two off announcement, but who knows?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 14, 2020 12:57:03 GMT
It hasn't been staged before no, I read the opening scenes last year, and I know several people who have read the entire script.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 13, 2020 10:15:55 GMT
Hopefully it’s been substantially re-written since last year.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 12, 2020 10:19:44 GMT
Anyone know when non-member booking opens?
Re: casting, I know DT had full casting approval over Much Ado (and handpicked Josie Rourke to direct), but he was an exec producer. In that situation he did cast three of his best friends, but also ensured two of the lead roles went to unknowns (including giving Tom Bateman his first professional role), something which almost certainly wouldn’t have been approved without the star power of Tennant and Tate to equalise things. So I do applaud him for that, and hope he does similar here. (And hope there are no child roles for his “dynastic” brood of child actor kids!) I think he is generally powerful enough to demand casting input/approval as a condition of acceptance.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 11, 2020 15:42:59 GMT
I love DT, but I wish he wouldn't cast all his best mates all the time. If I had a that choice I would chose the people I enjoy working with. I do have that choice, and I choose to use that privilege to give people from marginalised or overlooked backgrounds a leg up, rather than engaging in nepotism as much as possible. Surely actors only grow by working with different people who may have different styles? Working with your mates all the time doesn’t seem challenging.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 11, 2020 14:15:56 GMT
Fenella Woolgar also starring. Yep, Fenella playing Helen, his wife. Elliot Levey playing Maurice, his Jewish best friend. I love DT, but I wish he wouldn't cast all his best mates all the time.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 5, 2020 12:16:39 GMT
Iirc Tennant's on the record as saying he doesn't especially want to play Richard III, though he may have changed his mind since.
They may want to cast a disabled actor.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 2, 2020 18:08:08 GMT
There's also plenty of evidence that he abused Amber. The fact she slapped him one time, while not acceptable, doesn't make him the innocent party. Not when there are so many photos and videos of her from the course of their marriage looking like someone beat the s**t out of her. Depp's behaviour during and after the divorce is also classic emotional abuser. I am ashamed to admit my naivety got the better of me when this whole story first came up; I immediately jumped on the Cancel Johnny wagon. Men don't just 'start' behaving like that, they do it their whole lives. He had never had a history of being anything other than a nice guy and had certainly never had any problem with wives or girlfriends before. That really, really isn't true. He's had a reputation for being violent and unstable for decades, even in the 80s was getting into trouble for setting things on fire on set, has been arrested for assault multiple times, gloated after one assault on a photographer that it was worth going to jail to "enjoy the look of fear on the little maggot's eyes", has spoken in numerous interviews about how he has serious substance abuse issues dating to adolescence, has talked openly about how he suffers from serious rage issues, how he has "hillbilly rage attacks" where he sees red and will physically attack and even bite people, there was the court case with the disabled university professor (the one where she wound handcuffed, stripped, and dragged along the floor because Depp objected to her being allowed inside a VIP area), and there have been persistent and strong rumours surrounding him and domestic violence for at least thirty years. Remember Winona Ryder's infamous 1990s-era interview strongly hinting that he abused her (about which she's since done a 180)? Or the infamous hotel room-trashing fights he and Kate Moss used to have?
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