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Post by Latecomer on Jan 8, 2019 18:36:09 GMT
Sorry, incompetent use of quotes button! I agree Backdrifter, we all like to think advertising has no effect on us....and it irritates me no end to think it might....sometimes I think it is quite sublimable....for example when I am looking at car insurance I perhaps feel happier picking a company where I know the name?
Interesting work was done in the USA on Facebook data a couple of elections ago...apparently you can measure the uplift in the % of people voting in an election if Facebook reminds them to vote. If Facebook tells them a friend has voted this had a greater effect. This work has been done (a few years ago) with huge amounts of data...so I suspect even recognising a brand name makes us more likely to buy it (unless we actively hate the brand!)
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Post by Latecomer on Jan 8, 2019 18:29:23 GMT
Friends of mine swear they are not influenced by advertising (i always ask them if they have Heinz, Kellogg’s and other brands at home and if so why?) On a tangent, this is an interesting question. I too feel superficially that I'm largely unaffected by advertising but accept I probably am influenced by it in some ways. To take the Heinz and Kellogs examples, for instance I prefer Wilkins ketchup to Heinz because it tastes nicer and found this out purely by seeing it on the shelf and deciding to give it a try, and I prefer Tesco own honey-nut cornflakes to kellogs for the same reason. The supermarkets I get those from are nearby so I use those. When TV ads come on, I mute them, channel-surf, pick up something to read and wait for the programme to re-start. When scrolling advertising boards started appearing in towns it infuriated me because they're eyesores and make the streets look ugly. I don't recall ever remembering anything on them, just my irritation they're there. I get impatient when reading a magazine and having to flip through full-page ads. Etc etc. All that springs to mind when I think about advertising is impatience and irritation. I can't consciously think of what influence it has on me, but instinctively I feel it must be there somehow. |
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Post by Latecomer on Jan 5, 2019 21:12:07 GMT
You see I am quite curious to see this. I feel like this, and to some exten,t the last election were fought on totally different rules. Old elections had posters, TV campaigns (election broadcasts) and of course newspapers. Brexit and the last election had dark messages targeted at audiences that we do not know about and with no regulation (the only way to see some of these adverts was to actually set up fake Facebook accounts in marginal areas for the election for example). By the sounds of it this is what the film concentrates on. Friends of mine swear they are not influenced by advertising (i always ask them if they have Heinz, Kellogg’s and other brands at home and if so why?) so i will be watching with interest.
No matter what your view I still find it INCREDIBLE that we are allowing the result to stand despite clear and undisputed fraud in terms of funding. Do we just not care about democracy?
Will be watching despite fatigue....
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 8, 2018 22:01:44 GMT
Great work team! Thanks for rescuing the forum and running it so well!  |
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Post by Latecomer on Dec 4, 2018 17:16:30 GMT
I always get lost in Waterloo station and never end up coming out of the exit I want. Although, more often than not, I do end up on the travelator which is delightful. Travelator makes me feel like a superhero I’m so quick!!! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 28, 2018 13:52:34 GMT
Oops. Puts head in bucket. As you were... I did exactly this...was getting very grumpy, then realised it was tomorrow! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 15, 2018 16:52:57 GMT
Thank you so much happysooz....really useful! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 15, 2018 7:00:02 GMT
This play is wonderful and Patsy Ferran breathtaking, but the stage here must be narrower than the Almeida because B21 and 22 in the Dress Circle are significantly restricted view. You can see three of the seven (?) pianos in B22 and four in B21. I sucked it up but husband was fussy. Daughter and I have those seats....I have seen it before so will go for B22 but in B21 do you get to see most of the actual play? Not too worried about the pianos but would be a shame not to actually see the leads talking to each other! Thanks! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 13, 2018 18:46:39 GMT
I liked it at Oxford Playhouse too. I thought the leads were excellent and, as with the West End version that i also saw, the whole cast seem to enjoy themselves so much that it’s infectious! Well worth seeing! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 4, 2018 18:16:52 GMT
I wasn’t trying to offend either...honestly! In fact I thought it was quite funny as you write...so draft was rather an appropriate. Sorry! I am terrible at spelling and very poorly educated when it comes to grammar (I went to a very progressive 1970s school where they never taught any spelling) so people are always correcting me...and I don’t take offence...so sorry if I came over as being superior, wasn’t my intention  |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 4, 2018 12:31:42 GMT
I caved and did Todaytix for Death of a Salesman just to save myself the scrum. Taking the Mother so didn't go for the cheapest cheap, but if I book a return trip I probably will. Never had a bad view in the YV, only a bad draft during The Inheritance. Nearly as good as when our local butchers had a problem with his till and put up a notice asking customers to “please bare with us” I am chuckling as we speak! |
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 3, 2018 20:42:18 GMT
Seemed very relevant to #metoo with abuse of power and the lines where Angelo says no-one will believe Isabelle....plus the feeling that hurray, she is safe, only for the next predator to come forth! I am constantly amazed at how naive people are today about how abuse of position works....”why did she not say anything when the boss bullied her” ...down to the allocation of new universal credit to one member of a household not being a problem “as it can be requested to be split” not being a problem with abusive relationships.....
So yes, i enjoyed this one. I could have done without the light reflecting off the shiny floor right into my eyes for a good part of the play!
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Post by Latecomer on Nov 2, 2018 21:37:01 GMT
I am also going to Pinter 3 on Nov 17th....an audience of board members? An ovation?
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Post by Latecomer on Oct 31, 2018 19:51:10 GMT
I asked at Oxford Playhouse today....and they were quite optimistic without actually committing! They said “watch this space”
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Post by Latecomer on Oct 26, 2018 20:42:39 GMT
I’m kind of staggered by all the “who he?” about Wendell Pierce. Given that The Wire is the finest piece of long-form TV drama (don’t @me) ever made, packed-full of Shakespearean-level characters, this seems like a major gap in all y’all canon. “Fuuuuuuuuuck” (points at the fridge, then the window.) I had to watch it with the subtitles on but have to agree it was mighty! 😊 |
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Post by Latecomer on Oct 24, 2018 17:53:26 GMT
I was at the matinee today and enjoyed it, with reservations. I could see what it was trying to do....very eloquently put by Steve.....but have to agree with Parsley that it was quite poorly written for me. So had ambition...and not a total failure as it did take me into another world....loved the snow through the windows and the puppets....and the dialogue in the attic. I did get annoyed at the language (and I don’t normally mind swearing at all....indeed I quite enjoy it usually) and I felt it was being used throughout just to shock and get laughs....be cleverer please! Particularly distressing in a scene with young children....is this not child abuse?
Quite liked that they messed with the back stories of real people....
Sorry I missed you Parsley!
Oh and the young man on the front row who came in just before the start and LAUGHED really LOUD at all the inappropriate bits....how annoying was he!
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Post by Latecomer on Sept 9, 2018 8:35:48 GMT
I thought this was terrible. It is hard to describe how bad I thought this was. It is also hard to hear the things people laugh at.....
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Post by Latecomer on Sept 6, 2018 6:21:54 GMT
Got in under the wire to see it this afternoon. Second half somewhat stronger than the first, but really, what was its point? I just found it clumsy and the 50s metaphor actually got in the way. Only part that really worked for me was the mother's broadside. Hovered between 2 and 3 stars for me. May work better in a studio without the elaborate two-tier set, perhaps. Missed you again Theatremonkey! I was there with husband (a rare outing for him) in the second row, B8. I don't suppose you were the nice man I chatted to a little on my right? I quite liked the play, as Lynette says, as a simple relationship play. I liked that it sort of had a happy ending and the row at the end was a bit different to the cliche norm as, instead of storming off, they actually listened to each other and admitted to feeling scared. Husband quite liked it. He likes to bring me a cup of tea in the mornings! |
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Post by Latecomer on Aug 22, 2018 14:59:55 GMT
I have to confess I found this production very strange. Rylance plays every line for comedy with his slightly stumbling muttering air...as though he is making it all up as he goes along, and whilst he has prefect comic timing, I find that some of the words get a bit lost in the mumbles and the tone just seems very odd. It's almost as if it all happens by accident.....and the sense of foreboding never really builds, so the drama at the end is sudden and a bit cartoon. Not a great success for me.
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Post by Latecomer on Aug 9, 2018 21:26:48 GMT
I suggest we parade up and down outside the Donmar with a "Where's my ticket" placard.....or possibly just sit at home quietly on the sofa, inwardly fuming! I too would have liked to see this one! , you shall go to the ball! Polly is my ticket Angel......thanks! Love this forum! |
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Post by Latecomer on Aug 9, 2018 16:25:49 GMT
I always miss out on such things which is a pity as I would have liked to see this. I am a big fan and love "The Weir" will be interested to hear how this revival compares. I suggest we parade up and down outside the Donmar with a "Where's my ticket" placard.....or possibly just sit at home quietly on the sofa, inwardly fuming! I too would have liked to see this one! |
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Post by Latecomer on Aug 7, 2018 18:01:12 GMT
I have heard nothing, how rude! |
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Post by Latecomer on Aug 1, 2018 19:41:32 GMT
Great fun....thought it was excellent production. Actually quite touching the last scene, found myself surprisingly emotional! Word perfect at Saturday matinee and in fine shape. |
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Post by Latecomer on Jun 23, 2018 13:32:23 GMT
Thought this was a perfectly good production but my main problem was that I had no patience for the central character at all and more or else felt that she got what she deserved by the end. She basically gets married because she can't be bothered to work (she literally talks about wanting to lie in bed till noon); she's not frustrated or oppressed, she's just bloody lazy. My sympathy was all with the husband who perfectly reasonably expected the woman who agreed to marry him of her own free will to give some slight evidence of liking him.
I liked Emily Berrington as the Young Woman and thought she was credibly lost and vulnerable but I agree she couldn't ultimately muster much sympathy for her character. I think the problem is the wrong-headed updating of the production. What's powerful and courageous and prescient in the 1920s is simply banal when dragged up into the present day. The play desperately needs its context.
When the Prosecutor asks the woman why she didn't simply get a divorce she has no answer and, in this setting, neither does the play.
I disagree...(respectfully of course!) The point of the play is that she is so mentally oppressed by her situation that she cannot see a way of escape...even in this day and age people stay with abusive partners, even when logically the sensible thing to do is leave and divorce, as they have been so traumatised that they cannot decide the logical course of action. It is a bit like when someone commits suicide....they often think they are doing their family a favour as they will be "better off without them", even though this is not how the family think at all. Also the "wanting to lie in bed all day" is a classic symptom of depression....you cease to be able to function, so I think this is a symptom of her deep despair at life, rather than laziness! I loved the opening, on the tube train and I really enjoyed Emily Berrington's perfomance. I think it's probably quite apt that some of the audience feel little sympathy for the character as that is partly the point of the story....the same happened then as well....and still happens today. |
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Post by Latecomer on Jun 16, 2018 14:59:35 GMT
I really enjoyed this from the front row Forum unofficial meet up (Neil and Polly1 were also there!)
I was struck by how great Linney was at switching between herself and her mother. I was struck by how I often end up doing the "you remember, X from primary school that married Y and is now doing..... " to my two children that have now left the village. I was struck by how much people hide of their pasts, how everyone's past is different and how, in the end, it all catches up with you.
A good match with Mood Music for matinee as that had lost of fallout from childhood.
Having seen some of the more negative comments above I wonder if it helps to be a bit older when you see this?
LInney was stunning....great to see her on stage.
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