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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 30, 2017 0:14:42 GMT
Catherine Tate photobombed me once and I didn't realise till months later because the camera broke. I love her.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 30, 2017 0:13:08 GMT
I met Top Gear's James May once and he announced with great relish that he ate anything fans baked for him as long as it looked good.
I wish I was public-facing enough to get fans bringing me sweeties.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 30, 2017 0:09:58 GMT
I'm a terrible luvvie. I was with an actress friend recently and we spent a good few minutes taking the piss out of people who call each other "darling" then as we were saying goodbye she pointed out I had non-ironically called her "darling" without even realising it.
It's a terrible addiction, being a luvvie. There should be a support group. On the other hand there are worse things to be called than darling.
To try to bring this back to topic, the artist who made the Bush's recent play 'Hir' (about trans* issues) uses the personal pronoun judy, which is rather fabulous.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 29, 2017 13:42:08 GMT
There are an awful lot of dog whistling "how much can I rant about black people and PC police and post coded anti-black statements" comments around (in general, not specifically here) from people who believe anything short of explicitly stating "I hate black people" is not racist. Systemic and covert racism is real.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 29, 2017 0:08:19 GMT
Basil doesn't use the N word. The Major does in one scene and it's supposed to be an example of how backwards and out of touch he is (Basil seems fairly taken aback at this speech). It's worth pointing out that the Major is not using the word as a slur or term or abuse, but in a matter of fact way, like he genuinely believes that is the correct terminology for a person of African descent. Obviously attitudes have changed and you wouldn't get that now (the BBC decided to edit that line out of repeats a few years ago, to predictable Daily Mail outrage) but in the uncut episode it's not presented as a perfectly acceptable every day word to use.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 22:34:01 GMT
At the Majority this eve someone in the front row had their shoes off and their bare feet stretched out fully resting on the stage, and had to be told by an user to stop. Someone else in the front row tried to take a sneaky photo of them (before the show started, not during) but didn't realise flash was on.
Rob Drummond always stays to do an informal post-show, and two elderly Jewish ladies confronted him over certain elements of the show (the message of the show is basically it's fine to be a Nazi as long as you don't actively engage in violence or exhort others to violence, since everyone should be allowed any opinion free of censorship or abuse), he got very defensive, and it ended in a big fight.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 22:07:53 GMT
I really side eye actors who accept expensive presents from fans. It's on the person with the power to set appropriate boundaries.
Someone like John Barrowman has the right idea, he says if fans want to give gifts to only give sweets (which are very cheap and can't be messed with).
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 22:05:27 GMT
I live a couple of miles away and have not seen hide or hair of carnival. Granted I didn't go on any of the tube lines that go through the area, but surely that shows how contained and easy to avoid it is?
Funny how events where white people get blind drunk and violent are never subject to this kind of condemnation and debate.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 22:02:06 GMT
As long as there is heteronormativity there will be a need for labels, sadly.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 14:43:29 GMT
I didn't get an email from them but the offer was there when I logged in.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 9:58:38 GMT
I use queer. Queer has been widely used by the LGBT community for as long as I've been alive. I completely understand people used to hearing it as a slur finding it offensive, but some LGBT and especially LGBT youth have never known it as a slur. (I also stopped because you're not allowed to be a feminist and not hate Israel now, apparently, but that's another can of worms) Yes, I agree with this. The "social justice" movement is problematic in all kinds of ways, and can be very discriminatory. At the moment there are white supremacists groups actively targeting social justice youth intentionally to spread anti-Semitic propaganda, which is horrifying. Recently a Muslim Indian teenage girl became a white supremacist poster child which is a sentence I can't believe I've just written. On a broader note: racial politics are so contentious. Sometimes watching the news feels like you're living on a knife edge. Perhaps it would be more conducive to calm debate not to bring in black people or the N word unnecessarily.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 28, 2017 9:25:47 GMT
I think you mean Ms Roarke.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 26, 2017 12:29:23 GMT
Honourable mention here to RADA tutors for putting me off Hamlet for nearly a decade (Hiddles want to have a word?) and to The Wooster Group for having the honour of the first play I fell asleep in (also Hamlet) which I feel was a cardinal theatrical sin, but it was hella hot in there, and we'd got the 6am Eurostar and their version is about 45 minutes longer than the average Hamlet....zzzzz I wish I'd fallen asleep during Troilus and Cressida...
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 25, 2017 20:52:19 GMT
I don't know if it's their bandwidth or my connection but I can't watch anything on their site; video buffers every thirty seconds. It's like trying to watch a video on a Backstreet Boys fansite on Geocities circa 1998!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 24, 2017 10:08:41 GMT
GCSE: Taming of the Shrew (loved it then, like it now). A Level: King Lear as part of comparative lit with Thousand Acres (I like Lear fine but I've seen approx 5000 productions of it and I never need to see another. See also: Midsummer Night's Dream).
I didn't really study much Shakespeare in school, though I was reading the plays and seeing productions outside of school from a young age. I used to love Macbeth and 12th Night, and hate the "boring" histories. Now my favourite play is Richard II.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 24, 2017 10:02:44 GMT
I'm sort of boycotting since the writer's a complete a-hole, but the production images are making me slightly regret it.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 17, 2017 16:41:43 GMT
Bloody useful to anyone planning an ACE application though, ahem. *fires up the ol' CTRL C*
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 16, 2017 13:28:20 GMT
Ah no, not encore screenings. The internet has some questionable nooks and crannies! Would you like to drop some hints, for the uninitiated? There does appear to be a bit of a thriving black market.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 11, 2017 14:45:07 GMT
It's a shame, because the NT Studio is doing great work and writers are falling over themselves to be there. At any time the Studio has something like 60+ plays in development. The problem is so few of them make it to one of the main spaces, and almost everyone wants to be in the Dorfman.
The Olivier and to a lesser extent the Lyttleton are fiendish spaces to write for, and one major problem is the lack of training and development opportunities for emerging or early-mid career writers to write for such large spaces. Emerging writers are under pressure to write to the two-person studio model. And yet the industry expects them to be able to make the leap from writing for the Dorfman or Court Upstairs, to writing for the Olivier, by themselves. Most writers struggle do it because all of the training and development has been within the black box hegemony, and when they're given the chance and fail, they fail so publicly and are criticised so harshly it puts others off. So we've ended up with two of the main auditoriums in London actively scaring off writers, which means they end up being programmed with an endless cycle of classics and revivals.
The tide is starting to turn. There is more of a push to encourage emerging writers to write big. But things won't change until there is more investment and more willingness to take risks.
On the other hand the NT are planning a big push to tour more and do more with regional partners and hopefully open up the NT to regional talent.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 10, 2017 11:55:26 GMT
The "brief history of Mumsnet slang" should have been first on the chopping block.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 10, 2017 11:33:33 GMT
I saw it in previews so I don't know if it changed, but I got the impression only a short amount of time had passed. {Spoiler - click to view} Jenny is pregnant but not yet really showing, and she refers to having had scans and that the pills and booze she consumed in Geneva have not damaged the baby. So if she was pregnant in Geneva and is still not showing, I don't think it can be more than a few months later.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 9, 2017 11:41:37 GMT
I didn't get it either.
Ah well, I'll console myself by re-watching Coriolanus.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 8, 2017 22:31:28 GMT
I could... I mean... who could tell under the fur Some of us fur-possessing creatures still appreciating the value of fine tailoring...
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Aug 8, 2017 14:24:09 GMT
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