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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 20, 2019 13:09:24 GMT
"I wonder if the Big Asda will still be open by the time I get out." "What do I need from the Big Asda. I guess I could always use some new kitchen equipment." "I wonder how much I can fit in my backpack. I don't want a 5p plastic bag."
Debating what treat to buy from the NT Kitchen in the interval. Realising the Kitchen will be shut by then. Silently cursing self. Plotting out the location of all brownie-purveyors within half a mile of the National. Worrying whether the Clapham Junction branch of Lidl will still have a decent selection of baked goods left. Trying to figure out if my coat is big enough to smuggle a tea back into the auditorium.
Figuring out which episode of Midsomer Murders that random supporting actor was in. Was it the iconic wheel of cheese of death episode?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 19, 2019 22:27:24 GMT
If you get invited to a press night, don’t “surreptitiously” take photos of celebs in the bar. 🙄🙄
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 19, 2019 14:08:51 GMT
Sean Foley has been announced as Rox Silbert's replacement at the Rep, with Amit Sharma leaving Graeae to become his deputy AD. Meanwhile Graeae's current AD Jenny Sealey announced she's starting up her own theatre company. It's not known whether she will remain AD of Graeae as well.
The musical chairs continue!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 18, 2019 0:09:56 GMT
Mark Rylance at Vault Festival (and Mark Gatiss at same a few weeks ago).
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2019 20:23:14 GMT
How are you defining “cope”? Do you think “the rest of the country coped” is going to be much comfort to the dead and those grieving the dead?
And really using words like “cope” for something entirely self-inflicted is bizarre. Brexit was sold as this great wonderful thing and now it’s something even the most ardent Leavers admit is an ordeal to be “coped” with.
The part about “oh but they’ve been told to just make sure they’ve got six weeks’ worth in stock” is incredibly naive. Many of the medications have very short shelf-lives meaning it is not physically possible to advance-stock them. Obviously the same is true for some foodstuffs. And as previously explained the UK supply system simply is not set up to be able to store six weeks’ worth of goods.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2019 17:19:34 GMT
You should be afraid of it. This mindset is the cause of the whole problem, people not seeing danger. It has disastrous consequences for households in the UK. If it’s not a spider, I’m not afraid of it. My opinion is it’s mindsets like this that have got us where we are - the scare mongering that we shouldn’t leave, that we shouldn’t have no-deal, that we shouldn’t leave with the only deal on the table and the constant support for further referendums. People forget that Britain existed perfectly well without the EU before we were a member - we shall survive leaving it too. There is nothing to fear by leaving because we will get through whatever comes next - what choice do we have but to survive it? We are an island - we can weather a storm. If we get a deal then fine, but people shouldn’t complain about every single scenario and act like there’s a miaracle solution just around the corner that no one has seen yet. There isn’t one and an extension isn’t going to miraculously resolve that. I’m no Tory supporter but May is right in that no deal is better than a bad deal... and pretty much everyone thinks it’s a bad deal. So the path is clear. It's not fear-mongering. There is no question that No Deal will do serious long-term damage to our economy, and that we will at the very least suffer short-term food and medicine shortages, which will lead to deaths. People, and it's usually relatively privileged people, always act like saying "people will die" is fear-mongering, but look at statistics from how many people have died due to cuts in the benefits system already. No, we won't have bodies piling up and panic on the streets, but many highly vulnerable people will die. The world has changed hugely since we joined the EU, and so has our country. It's naive to say "well we were okay before!" All our trading deals were negotiated as an EU member state, and will therefore become invalid when we leave. It's not like we just automatically revert to pre-EU status. And we currently import more than 40% of all our food, which is a massive increase from a few decades ago. The UK does not produce enough food to feed everyone and because we're so heavily dependent on food and medicine imports (especially considering the UK operates on a "Just In Time" import policy), means even minor disruption to imports -- imports that depend on trade deals -- can and will cause serious problems. Any deal is better than no deal. And there are many other, better options, number one being a new referendum.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2019 12:17:12 GMT
Pinter was a fox, let's be honest. Anyone who's seen it, could you tell us: {Spoiler - click to view}which kid appears in this production? Is it the daughter or the son? {Spoiler - click to view}Only the daughter. Quite a long scene of them sleeping together on a chair. Though they were casting for a 4yr old mixed race boy to play the son, so I'm not sure what happened.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 14, 2019 11:55:02 GMT
On the flipside, there are some reviewers/bloggers who are horrendously unprofessional. I helped out SMing on a one-woman fringe show once where a blogger wrote a review that was entirely a hatchet job about the female producer, wrongly credited her as the writer, blamed her by name for technical issues, and didn't mention the director, actress, or the actual writer at all. If you read it and didn't know better you'd assume the producer had written, directed, starred in, and run the sound and lighting desks single-handed!
The production had to contact the editor to ask that at the very least the correct writer was credited.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 14, 2019 9:36:53 GMT
I am at the platform at the Almeida this evening with James Graham and Annie Washburn talking about writing political theatre. I have no idea what they'll find to talk about. I missed it, what was it like?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 11, 2019 16:33:11 GMT
^ It's not a secret exactly, but I enjoyed discovering the little access lift at the Lyric Hammersmith that opens right into the stalls.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 5, 2019 21:51:28 GMT
Well that was minimalist.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 27, 2019 15:51:41 GMT
I looked up the original breakdowns for S3 and the shooting dates are listed as 2nd July - 28th Feb. I suppose they possibly may have wrapped earlier than expected. My friends who worked on the show certainly spent many weeks or months darting across the UK just for one episode.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 25, 2019 20:48:39 GMT
Are there really only four productions eligible for New Comedy? And five for Musical Revival? Got to be gutting for the Musical Revival that doesn't get one of the nom slots.
My predictions: Revival: Summer and Smoke OR Wild Duck. New Play: Inheritance. Comedy: Nine Night. Musical: Six OR Come From Away. Musical Revival: Company.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2019 17:14:16 GMT
Not denying there’s a huge and unfair wage disparity in society, but theatre is not the problem. Nearly all playwrights and directors end up making far less than minimum wage (one Olivier winning director once told me they’d totted up the amount of hours they’d spent developing a highly successful show and divided by their salary, and it came out at about 20p an hour). Actors are only well-paid if they land a hit or become famous; they don’t make much more than minimum wage and are expected to work for free for years and pay thousands in training.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2019 17:09:24 GMT
The cast generally for the half (30 mins before curtain up), unless there’s a fight call (some shows with fight scenes do a fight call before every performance). A few directors insist on all cast warmups on the stage.
Crew, depends on their role and the complexity of the show.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2019 12:19:56 GMT
Saw this last night. I'm ignorant about musicals generally but really missed Imelda's stunning presence. A beautiful show though.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2019 12:09:09 GMT
Is a hundred quid a day, pre-tax, pre agent 10-15%, really that vast a sum? Especially if you're touring and having to pay your digs out of your per diem.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2019 11:53:42 GMT
I prefer going to SUA or Chichester or Birmingham to theatres in more far-flung parts of London. It feels like a proper little day trip, whereas going to say Park just feels like a slog.
Though I agree about Chichester. I remember running to catch that one rare late night train back to London, in deepest fog, after some long-forgotten show. Spooky!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2019 0:33:08 GMT
With the exception of the community Pericles which only had three performances, this is the first decent thing non-Dorfman thing I've seen at the NT in at least a year. Some have done better than others but it feels like the NT is going through a rough patch.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 21, 2019 23:27:29 GMT
This will be a Marmite one.
I thought it was one of the funniest plays I've ever seen, but loads of walk outs in the interval.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 21, 2019 22:52:55 GMT
Is Nativity Goes Wrong ever going to get another airing?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 20, 2019 21:55:57 GMT
I do, but generally only for mates' shows, or to theatres I have a relationship with. Or if the play or cast is really something special. The Midlands are about as far as I'll go though, sorry Manchester!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 14, 2019 23:28:05 GMT
The Young Vic do one of the best matcha lattes around, if that’s not too poncey a thing to say.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 13, 2019 15:50:13 GMT
I mainly see shows in London where I live so 20-60 minutes.
Travel to Chichester, Stratford, Leeds, Manchester if there’s something I particularly want to see.
Have been known to travel to other countries for theatre but these are holidays too.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 6, 2019 22:38:36 GMT
Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, As You Like It, and Midsummer Night's Dream. And maybe Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra. Yay more Pericleses
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