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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 21:24:11 GMT
I’m sure there’s already a thread about this elsewhere on the forum, I have not heard anything about who is going to be in it.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 19:02:23 GMT
Hmmm: the stage seems awfully high, I’m hoping Billy Crudup doesn’t do too much lurking at the back 🤣
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 17:49:25 GMT
Can’t believe they have not announced who is playing Juliet: in these days off equality and inclusion I thought that would have been one of the first announcements; I gave up on booking this when I saw the humongous online queue for tickets but surely someone might be keener to see who Juliet will be rather?
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Post by Marwood on Mar 6, 2024 17:57:56 GMT
Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, directed by Kenny Leon. No mention of which theatre it will be on at on its Instagram page (search for othellobway) which has gone live today but unless tickets are eye wateringly expensive, I might go for this next year: I saw Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall/A Life back in 2019, unfortunately I never got to see Washington’s Julius Caesar.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 4, 2024 10:52:13 GMT
Harry Clarke on Saturday.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 1, 2024 17:04:27 GMT
Depeche Mode at the Accor Arena in Paris on Sunday.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 25, 2024 17:44:39 GMT
I saw the matinee performance of this yesterday (£35 for a front row seat through London Theatre Week): I think I might have seen a filmed version many years ago but this was certainly the first time I’d seen it on a stage: I enjoyed it a lot, and I couldn’t believe the anti semitism on show but something like this is more relevant now than at any point in the last 80 years but as with so many things these days the people in positions of power just look the other way and do nothing but as we’ve seen in recent years, antisemitism is coming back in a big way but is treated as a taboo subject and no one goes out of their way to do anything about it.
Anyway, sitting in the front row, me and a few people were asked to go on stage for the closing scene (a brief reenactment of the Battle Of Cable Street): thankfully we didn’t get given any lines to embarrass ourselves by mangling , just joining in with the chant ‘they shall not pass!’ A couple of the actors thanked me for going up on stage but it was so dark in there I could only see the first couple of rows and I can now go to the grave knowing I’ve been on stage in a West End show 🤣
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Post by Marwood on Feb 23, 2024 16:42:19 GMT
The Merchant of Venice 1936 at the Criterion tomorrow afternoon.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 21, 2024 20:43:50 GMT
Have heard it’s Kit Harrington. Makes sense for Jim. Jim who? Savile? Nail? Cricket? 🤣
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Post by Marwood on Feb 17, 2024 20:28:45 GMT
Saw a double bill of Withnail & I and The Holdovers at the Prince Charles this afternoon with an intro from David Hemingson, The Holdovers writer (he chose Withnail as its one of his favourites): I won’t say anything about Withnail as my forum avatar and user name should be a clue as to it being one of my favourite films, if not THE favourite but I really enjoyed The Holdovers, it seemed very slow to find its way but a few of the supporting cast were ejected and it then really got going : I’d say Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph have given two perfectly calibrated performances that thoroughly deserve Oscars (neither of them seem to be going out of their way to give ‘look at me!’ performances like some of the other nominees did)
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Post by Marwood on Feb 10, 2024 21:10:09 GMT
I finally got round to seeing Casablanca tonight and I was pretty damn impressed: the cast was great across the board and it had a script packed full of quotable lines: the credits at the beginning says it was based on a play, I’m surprised no one has tried to put on a production of it in recent years (although this was quite ambitious with the amount of scene changes so who knows what was added for the films screenplay)
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Post by Marwood on Feb 9, 2024 23:27:00 GMT
Yes there is, through the link in the plays website that was linked at the beginning of this thread: they sent me an email earlier saying the resale goes live next Tuesday (the 13th) from 8 a.m until noon: I’ve seen how many people liked this when Tom Holland shares he was doing it on his Instagram the other day so they won’t have problems selling tickets for this, I want to see who is playing Juliet first though.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 6, 2024 23:06:33 GMT
Well, you would have thought so, especially 20 minutes before it started. Really! Unless he has his own P.A. whose job would that be? A stage hand/manager or just someone working in there: he had his pictures all over the place, it’s not like some random that wandered in off the streets.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 5, 2024 23:42:23 GMT
I saw Andy Serkis in the foyer of Ulster American, in the queue to buy some sweets. As he was one of the stars of that, could he not have asked someone working in there to go and get him some? 🥴
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Post by Marwood on Feb 3, 2024 23:50:09 GMT
Saw American Fiction at the BFI tonight, introduced by Cord Jefferson, Sterling K. Brown and Jeffrey Wright (although as the screening didn’t start until gone 9, I missed the Q&A after or I wouldn’t have got home much before one in the morning): I enjoyed it, it’s not quite the out and out comedy I had been expecting from the trailer as there are quite a few moments of melancholy sewn into it with great performances across the board, although the BFI being what it is, certain members of the audience were guffawing and clapping stupidly loudly without realising that the jokes aimed at privileged white folk were aimed at people just like them 👀
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Post by Marwood on Feb 3, 2024 9:51:19 GMT
Frank Skinner- 30 Years of Dirt at the Gielgud on Tuesday
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Post by Marwood on Feb 2, 2024 22:05:57 GMT
I’ll wait to see who is announced but I’m not over excited about this (mainly because I could only name one Chaka Khan song if anyone asked me and didn’t know she was still going)
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Post by Marwood on Feb 2, 2024 21:11:56 GMT
I booked to see The Cherry Orchard earlier today after seeing it an ad for it in the back of the BFI March programme (they’re showing bugger all that I have any interest in during March): it will be first time I’ve been to the Donmar since Gemma Arterton was in Saint Joan which I’ve just seen was seven years ago 🫤
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Post by Marwood on Feb 2, 2024 21:06:02 GMT
Saw Argylle at BFI IMAX earlier this evening: I didn’t realise it was financed by Apple Films but I’m glad I got to see it on a big screen rather than in my laptop: the film itself wasn’t that great and seemed to take ages to find its groove but it was likeable enough by the time it ends: certainly the best thing either Sam Rockwell or Bryan Cranston have done in ages. If you do go and see it in a cinema, don’t bother hanging round for the scene in the end credits (one of the reviews I read said it featured a major character in the film but it was a couple of nobodies 🤣)
I’ll give this 3 stars, but wouldn’t want to see it again.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 2, 2024 12:32:37 GMT
Paul Nicholas as the Major : 🥴 I’ll pass on this one, the whole thing sounds dreadful 🤦♂️
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Post by Marwood on Feb 1, 2024 8:00:03 GMT
I also wasn’t impressed: I’ve spent all my life in Croydon and there has never been anything in the Whitgift Centre you would go to for a treat, let alone a diner (a crap pub that got demolished about 30 years ago and a cheap Thai restaurant that closed down about ten years ago is about it) so that ‘emotional’ scene just didn’t land for me, and I just felt detached (and bored) by the time it finished.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 27, 2024 23:29:56 GMT
The advertising blurb is a very specific about the summer of 1976. I remember walking across a dried up reservoir. It was a hot, dry summer with drought conditions over most of the UK I only saw that the new play from Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes was going on sale in October last year and seeing the mad rush there has been for the previous plays, I just booked a ticket and left it at that (I was in Vegas at the time tickets went on sale, it was done unholy hour when I booked it) but sometimes it’s good to see shows only knowing the bare minimum of what it’s about, only who write it and/or who produced it.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 27, 2024 23:16:30 GMT
In the absence of a programme, I wasn’t sure what time period this was supposed to be set in (going by some of the comments the latter day parts are set in the mid 70s) and it took until the second act to put things into place: to tell the truth, I only had a vague idea about what this is about prior to sitting down to watch it and the first half an hour or so were the total opposite of The Ferryman (I never saw Jerusalem and the price of tickets on its last run out me right off it) and the first half an hour or so seemed like some generic TV programme set in the North like Where The Heart Is or Peak Practice so it took me a while to get involved with the characters but it then builds and builds and I was impressed by the end (it never seemed to drag):the last few scenes are a punctuation of the whole music scene of the American West Coast being some kind of artistic dream with a big portion of Me Too thrown in as well. I won’t say anything more as I could easily go into spoiler territories but I really liked the performances and singing from the younger generation of girls playing the sisters and I was impressed that for a play running well over three hours, there was no obvious flubbing of lines on its first performance.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 27, 2024 18:51:34 GMT
No programmes in yet (although there are cast lists available) and a planned running time of three hours and twenty minutes according to the people on the door.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 22, 2024 13:12:41 GMT
Thanks for the heads up : also got myself a front row seat to see it.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 21, 2024 11:22:32 GMT
The Hills of California at the Harold Pinter on Saturday
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Post by Marwood on Jan 20, 2024 20:34:40 GMT
Saw Poor Things earlier today and while it has some good performances that have already received serious awards buzz (and particularly brave ones from Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in the nudity stakes), I thought it went on too long, tried to fit too many ideas and characters in and eventually just seemed a bit mean spirited: I’ll say 6 out of 10 from me.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 20, 2024 20:24:23 GMT
I don’t know if he is mentioned on the posters for the film but Christopher Abbott turned up towards the end of Poor Things with a fairly decent English accent (miles bettter than Willem Dafoes Scots one anyway), he’s been getting some serious buzz about his career since this started and he’s about to make The Wolf Man- he could be a big star in the future (not sure if this will transfer to a bigger theatre on Broadway or come over here though, but I read it made its money back prior to closing).
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Post by Marwood on Jan 19, 2024 20:26:52 GMT
Saw Scala!!! At the BFI last night, preceded by a conversation with Barry Adamson, Jah Wobble, Mark Moore, Douglas Hart and Caroline Catz (who all feature in it): I was too young to be aware of it when it closed and a lot of what they put on wouldn’t have been my cup of tea anyway but an entertaining way to spend 90 minutes.
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Post by Marwood on Jan 17, 2024 20:18:11 GMT
I saw 5 shows in New York last year and all of them were enjoyable: I’ve seen some right rubbish in London in the last couple of years so I don’t think NYC is in any kind of slump, if you’re expecting to see Hollywood A graders you might be disappointed but I’m sure some more of them will come along at some point.
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