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Post by nash16 on Jan 11, 2018 12:59:53 GMT
When is this happening? Before or after Charles does Absolute Hell? He's doing it after Absolute Hell.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 11, 2018 12:58:46 GMT
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Post by nash16 on Jan 11, 2018 1:05:28 GMT
Seeing this hopefully on Friday night. Can anyone give me a loud noises warning?! Gunshot, just the one, after Shirley Henderson accuses the "reverend" of stealing her dollars in the second half. Oh, and the applause and cheers at the end. 😉 Enjoy!
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Post by nash16 on Jan 10, 2018 23:49:24 GMT
I would take a punt on Helen McCrory. Anyway....I thought you said it had been fully cast since December? Do you only know one? Ohhh, a quiz is more fun.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 10, 2018 23:45:24 GMT
Charles Edwards to give his Heisenberg in Michael Blakemore's production.
(not to be confused with Heisenberg's Heisenberg)
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Post by nash16 on Jan 10, 2018 23:43:37 GMT
Charles Edwards to take the male lead in this.
But who the female lead?
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Post by nash16 on Jan 10, 2018 23:38:11 GMT
Any casting news yet for 'Absolute Hell'? Presume they'd be starting rehearsals soon and surprised to see they've yet to announce anyone. Im not sure theyve even started casting yet. It doesnt start until the middle of April. I dont think theyll start rehearsals until the end of feb at the very earliest The show is fully cast. Has been since early December.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 10, 2018 0:47:10 GMT
And where is the line between doing her day job and her freelance one if she's doing promotion for her own play that her employer is staging? Someone else is the PR for this play. She is the PR for other productions. 😂😂😂
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Post by nash16 on Jan 5, 2018 23:12:55 GMT
Thought this was a pile of sh*t Zero tension Or Excitement Stupid plot No interval to leave in Yep. Pretty damn disappointing. Wonder if the Donmar chose it or Norton got to pick it?
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Post by nash16 on Jan 5, 2018 11:19:17 GMT
This was sold out last night including standing room. Fairly early on - not long after the shirt removal scene referenced above by Ryan - there was a bit of a kerfuffle and two people left. It seemed a bit strange - someone wondered if they'd been caught taking photos. We liked this - Norton and Poots give terrific performances and your sympathies shift between them. The landlord and his wife add a lot to the tension of the piece. There were some genuinely frightening moments. However there was one plot point I found jarring. {Spoiler - click to view} Could she really not know that he hadn't qualified as a doctor? I would very much recommend this - it really suits the intimacy of the Donmar - and, to me, at least, is much better than some of the lukewarm reviews suggested. It's one of those plays that you are discussing and unpacking for a long time afterwards. We were there last night too, and sat near the two who left. From what my partner heard, one of them wasn't enjoying the play, so they decided to go. I thought this started well, nice chemistry between real-life couple Poots and Norton, but it lost it's way quite early on, in plausibility (for reasons you mentioned Foxa) and believability. Also didn't give a fig about the characters in it. The two supporting characters seemed to be red herrings ultimately. And Norton's final action was ridiculous as it didn't seem justified. I think strangely, considering the director, there's a better production of this play out there, where the issues being suffered by the two leads are mined more. Having said that, I don't think those issues are strong enough. He hasn't paid the rent and hasn't got a job. She's miserable in Paris. So? Poots having to go full frontal too...was that really necessary? Is it in the sccript does anyone know? it's like the author knew how to start her play, but didn't know where it was going or how to finish it, so it descended into a pretty poor melodrama.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 4, 2018 23:36:41 GMT
No really familiar with the play but you know your in good hand with Mark Rylance. Just wondering what are the best value seats that aren't the standing ones with a good view as well as price. I generally go for the "partially restricted" ones in the front facing blocks of seats. Best option is the back row as you have something to lean on. Last year these were £30 compared to £45 for top price. Top tip, thank you.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 4, 2018 11:51:19 GMT
What a brillaint idea!
Brendan O’Hea will tour productions of The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night, allowing the audience to decide which production will play on the night. It was traditional in Shakespeare’s time for companies to tour with a repertoire of several productions, with the most powerful member of the household deciding which play was performed. The tour begins at the Globe from 7th May.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 4, 2018 11:47:40 GMT
Matt Hartley’s new play Eyam, which is about a town in Derbyshire when the plague arrives in 1665.
Short run at the end of the season.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 22:33:32 GMT
A welcome return for an audience favourite. Full summer run.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 20:32:55 GMT
I thought it might be a radical retelling of Othello from a different perspective with that title! I was hoping for that too. Someone should scribe it.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 20:12:32 GMT
Rare outing for the Fletcher/Shakespeare updating of Chaucer in a half-season run.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 20:10:36 GMT
Full production running throughout the whole summer season.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 20:09:31 GMT
Brand new production (not the world tour one, as rumoured). Full run.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 20:08:44 GMT
Brand new play about the "dark lady of the sonnets". Will run at the end of the summer for just 11 performances.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 2, 2018 15:24:44 GMT
He's good, but it's lazy ass casting from the casting director. Really? The National used to do this all the time - Hytner had a core of actors he used again and again and I'm sure all casting directors do this Yep, you're right, they're both being lazy.
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Post by nash16 on Jan 2, 2018 14:53:36 GMT
What does Matthew Needham have on the Almeida's casting department, and is he always the best choice for the roles...? He's good, but it's lazy ass casting from the casting director.
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Post by nash16 on Dec 28, 2017 23:46:58 GMT
I'm hoping the all female directors led season next year sorts out the mess the company is in at the moment, with regard to innovation and new energy. You don't necessarily need "star" directors. Rather a fresh passion and a looking forward, rather than back. I can't wait for next year actually. Just a shame audiences will be watching this Rome season thinking this is the great RSC and it's not. What I meant by star directors really was directors who could stand up to Doran and force through their own ideas. That Roman season was Doran’s concept, the directors didn’t choose to use a single set or sword and sandals costumes, they had to go along with it - to be consistent with Doran’s Cicero plays I suspect which had to be set in Rome. Oh goodness. Did he make them do that? That's v depressing. Hopefully the ladies can burst free.
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Post by nash16 on Dec 23, 2017 2:01:51 GMT
I'm hoping the all female directors led season next year sorts out the mess the company is in at the moment, with regard to innovation and new energy.
You don't necessarily need "star" directors. Rather a fresh passion and a looking forward, rather than back.
I can't wait for next year actually.
Just a shame audiences will be watching this Rome season thinking this is the great RSC and it's not.
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Post by nash16 on Dec 23, 2017 1:27:30 GMT
I was banned from putting a post on this yesterday by TM, apparently due to "legal action"? No, you were NOT "banned" by me. As a member of the admin team, I happened to be first to see your post and had to take action, as any other member would. At that point, the story was developing, and your link was moved to the discussion board's "backstage" area so that the admin team could review whether it would be OK to run it. As you well know, you were told that, accepted it, and it is utterly unacceptable to make out that any banning took place. It was just that members of the team needed to check things out. It would have been restored, also as you know, but you chose to do so yourself. I think an apology is in order, don't you? No apology required by me TM. You said it was removed as it was part of an "ongoing investigation" and the "legality" was being discussed. Why, when all the major news outlets. And even Whatsonstage had reported it publicly. And here, for some assistance: ban1 ban/ verb past tense: banned; past participle: banned officially or legally prohibit (something). You cannot deny the post was banned.
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Post by nash16 on Dec 22, 2017 9:11:05 GMT
I was banned from putting a post on this yesterday by TM, apparently due to "legal action"?
Makes a complete mockery of their bag searches indeed. And they have doors aplenty open all over the place elsewhere too.
Hopefully it's a wake up call.
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Post by nash16 on Dec 21, 2017 23:22:36 GMT
Someone needs to free Alex Waldman from acting. It's very obvious from his performance in this that he doesn't enjoy it anymore. What a waste of 3hrs.
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Post by nash16 on Dec 21, 2017 23:16:29 GMT
According to Baz, mood music will star rhys ifans He hasn't been at the Old Vic for ages!
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Post by nash16 on Dec 20, 2017 0:43:50 GMT
I'm apprehensive now, as if my expectations weren't high enough with the hype and word of mouth from Broadway, with the raves from here too, I hope when I see it that it won't live up too the hype. Although it happens with every show I suppose. A recent example being 42nd Street, where it recieved raves from everyone who saw it, and then as time went on some went dissapointed, likely because of the amazing word of mouth prior making their expectations so high. We know (and you know) you're going to love it...
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Post by nash16 on Dec 16, 2017 1:02:57 GMT
It'll be interesting if this gets a London run either in the West End or the Barbican Contracts signed this week by the cast for the London run. They're on their way. (via a Roman road?)
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Post by nash16 on Dec 15, 2017 7:52:03 GMT
Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are both raves. Overall it did well...most of the reviews are mixed Really? This from Variety: "How ironic that “Pinocchio” should be a bit lifeless. With Disney handing over the keys to a cherished classic for the first time, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” director John Tiffany has served up an eye-popping production that is as stiff as a board. For all its staggering stagecraft, this “Pinocchio” is, for the moment, missing real soul." Can you link to the one you read?
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