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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 20, 2017 11:04:35 GMT
Stanley Tucci is a neighbour of mine. I see him at the local farmers market quite often. The way he handles bok choy. PHEW!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 19, 2017 23:27:18 GMT
I liked it very much and the 3 hours flew by, but the plot was a bit all over the place. What in any other play would be the entire play, here is one scene. Why over egg the pudding by shoving in half a dozen subplots that are barely touched upon? {Spoiler - click to view} namely the teen sexting/revenge porn plot, and the aunt in jail because she's taken the fall for him stuff. Jokes felt a bit 90s sitcom. They worked because Colman is so fabulously talented, not sure if a different actress would have gotten so many laughs. Unless it's supposed to be part of the character that she cracks 90s sitcom-style jokes? Not sure if we needed the science lecture but crikey isn't Paul Hilton's David-Tennant-on-acid routine good?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 18, 2017 10:51:01 GMT
I was about to mention porntache Colin Baker.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 15:35:44 GMT
I've already seen six "Never watching again" posts on GB but I think this is fantastic news, and for the most part it seems to be going down an absolute storm. Well done Chibbers.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 14:55:12 GMT
Announcement minutes away!!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 13:09:41 GMT
God sorry! I really didn't notice. Going back to GallifreyBase, that forum is notoriously 'old fashioned.' The handful of posts calling sexism are in response to a lot of very impassioned "THE DOCTOR MUST ALWAYS HAVE A PENIS" arguing (and some of the anti-female Doctor posts have been extremely misogynistic, eg claiming that sexism does not exist, sexism in the entertainment industry couldn't possibly exist, it's all bloody feminists whinging, etc. etc. etc.). I've been on the forum for about 2 years now and although I've seen the occasional comment, it does seem to be an anomaly and is usually followed with universal condemnation. After the airing of Thin Ice a few months ago, there was a thread where several hundred people were talking about whether or not it was acceptable to punch a racist person, and if anything the pro-social justice group had such a strong hold on the conversation that any suggestion that it's wrong to beat the sh*t out of a nasty person was treated as intense racism. I'm a very frequent poster there, have been for more than a decade, and that has not been my experience. Perhaps you have been fortunate about what parts of the forum you visit, but if you spend a lot of time there, the amount of misogyny and rage at anything "feminist" or "PC" is terrifying. Yes, there are a handful of posters willing to speak up against those comments, but the sheer amount of them is overwhelming sometimes. The 13th Doctor threads have been deleted and closed at least twice because of them, that wouldn't happen because if it was just the odd anomalous comment. Did you read the whole "sexism couldn't possibly exist in the entertainment industry" bunfight from a few days ago?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 12:17:13 GMT
Not to be controversial but I honestly don't think Rice's directorial style is especially radical, even by Globe standards. And I still believe she was fired for financial reasons (the whole lights/education dept budget kerfuffle) rather than due to programming or style.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 16, 2017 12:06:50 GMT
Not sure what that tweeter is on about, still loads of tweets containing swearing on Baynton's Twitter. Um I'm no detective-of- Moffat-fame but I think 'that tweeter' 's identity is fairly clear God sorry! I really didn't notice. Going back to GallifreyBase, that forum is notoriously 'old fashioned.' The handful of posts calling sexism are in response to a lot of very impassioned "THE DOCTOR MUST ALWAYS HAVE A PENIS" arguing (and some of the anti-female Doctor posts have been extremely misogynistic, eg claiming that sexism does not exist, sexism in the entertainment industry couldn't possibly exist, it's all bloody feminists whinging, etc. etc. etc.).
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 15, 2017 15:44:21 GMT
Matthew Baynton's twitter has had all tweets featuring swearing deleted since last night Not sure what that tweeter is on about, still loads of tweets containing swearing on Baynton's Twitter.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 13, 2017 10:14:46 GMT
As if I needed another reason not to visit the Old Vic Yes , sadly I fear it will be quite a while until I visit the Old Vic again.... At least we've got that Ayckbourn six-hour dystopian sci-fi to look forward to.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 13, 2017 0:28:07 GMT
I'm quite conflicted. There was an inherent issue at the heart of the play and I couldn't decide how to feel about it. Franzmann is evidently a rare talent and she's so aware of and so good at sensitive racial politics. My initial response was to find it problematic but knowing what I know of the writer I'm not sure if I'm interpreting it correctly. It's similar to Yerma, but what saved Yerma was the narrowness of its forcus. It was solely about a woman and her mental disintegration due to not having a baby and didn't try to be about a larger political issue. Bodies was promoted as being a play about surrogacy and the racial politics of wealthy white women buying the bodies and bodily services of impoverished women from developing countries. Granted there are powerful moments about those aspects. But {Spoiler - click to view}But the audience basically never sees the surrogate apart from in the fantasies and hallucinations of the woman receiving the baby (Clem), nor do we really learn what happens to the surrogate. As the play progresses it becomes more and more about Clem and her mental state till nothing else exists.
Franzmann was quoted as saying it was a play about what happens when your body betrays you. You could remove all the Indian surrogacy stuff completely and be left with a fantastic piece about the relationship between an infertile woman and her imaginary 'perfect' daughter.
I kept going back and forth trying to decide whether: a) The play is about a woman who has a mental breakdown because she can't birth a baby, and the surrogate stuff is just window dressing. b) The play is about Indian surrogacy but shown through the perspective of a wealthy white woman for a specific reason. c) The play is about both the trauma of infertility and miscarriage, and the commodification and exploitation of WOC bodies, and the two make uneasy bedfellows.
Whatever the intention, I don't need to see another film/play/TV show where an exploited minority acts a plot device to tell the story of a privileged white character's suffering and personal growth. I found Clem quite unsympathetic, which makes her interesting as a character, but when she hallucinates that the surrogate has cut her feet running away (from the apparently Pomona-lite gestation chamber) because her own children are alone, it's hard to take that as anything more than Clem's own white guilt and infertility-inspired mental distress. Maybe the surrogate does suffer as badly as she imagines? Who knows? It's just odd to have a play about Indian surrogacy without showing the point of view of an Indian surrogate.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 12, 2017 23:45:05 GMT
Having just seen Bent the term 'hat trick' in general now makes me feel queasy.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 12, 2017 9:19:15 GMT
Thanks. I love that period of history so I guess I'll pick up a free ticket and take my chances on seating.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 11, 2017 11:52:30 GMT
Anyone seen this? I have heard no buzz about it at all, and they're papering like mad.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 11, 2017 10:42:10 GMT
I can't remember exactly but something like an hour 40 straight through.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 10, 2017 22:10:31 GMT
Brian Ferguson is out (no word on how long) so another actor stepped in script in hand.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 10, 2017 22:08:08 GMT
There's a new production of Parade coming up in September. Some sort of site specific thing iirc. Off topic, but sounds interesting could you give more info www.vivodarte.co.uk/newwhatson.htm
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 9, 2017 17:05:27 GMT
Exciting to hear Sherman is in talks for a new production of Bent in London next year.
(And apologies for lowering the tone, but the silver fox who chaired the post-show should perhaps invest in underwear next time he's on stage, as I'm pretty sure the first few rows know his religion now.)
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 9, 2017 17:01:23 GMT
There's a new production of Parade coming up in September. Some sort of site specific thing iirc.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 8, 2017 22:48:25 GMT
Yeah, def a thing. I've seen actors do muck up matinee in straight plays and even Shakespeare. But it's usually just playing minor pranks on each other and trying not to let the audience see.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 8, 2017 11:33:51 GMT
The Wig Out reading was spectacular. 2 hours 10 with an interval, and semi-staged with costumes, costume changes, songs, dance routines (including Jonjo chair-dancing in sparkly platforms!). Extraordinary that they managed to do all that in one day of rehearsal and in no way a "reading." Some of the actors were even off-book!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 6, 2017 10:40:56 GMT
Brian Cox: STOP BLOODY WHINING! 200 pages of just whinge whinge whinge. The director's too passive. The director's too dominating. The theatre is too big. It's too hot. It's too cold. I wanted to go on a day trip but I had to do a press conference. I wanted to go on a day trip but there was a typhoon. The other actors are complaining how dare they be so unprofessional. I signed up to do two plays at once and amazingly it's hard work! OMG I have to go to work every single day. Doing a tour involves being away from home, who knew? My evil ex won't let our daughter miss a week of school to visit me on tour. Doing theatre sucks compared to film. The hotel room is too small. The theatre should send someone to the airport to meet us and give us our per diems in the local currency the minute we get off the plane because 'snot fair I had to get my own currency. I forgot my passport but it's the theatre's responsibility to go to my house and get it. I set fire to the place I'm staying in but I can't deal with that so I'll just walk out and let someone else put it out. I told my agent to tell my director I'd decided to quit the production and he got upset. Did I mention I hate theatre and touring?
SHUT UP.
The one amusing part is where he mentions buying fine handmade perfume (coughcough)from a street trader in Cairo who was so "dignified" (because "money obviously meant nothing to him" and "he knew his own worth") so Cox instantly paid him the first price he named because he couldn't possibly lower the man by haggling. That made me laugh an awful lot.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 5, 2017 22:41:44 GMT
So much great theatre this year. Best: An Octoroon, Ferryman, Anatomy of a Suicide. (Also vv good: Angels in America, Low Level Panic, Lottery of Love, Travesties, See Me Now.) Roman Tragedies for the experience if not the actual production.
Worst: Common! Don Juan in Soho and the YV Dream were disappointing.
Best film: Get Out.
Best TV: Handmaid's Tale.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 1, 2017 21:50:29 GMT
My fault, but the TRH refused to let us in as we arrived at 7.32. Not even allowed in at a suitable break. I take responsibility for being late but at £65 a ticket you think they could be a bit flexible.
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