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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 28, 2023 17:35:22 GMT
Pushing the boat out with the artwork as per. March 2024. Sheffield dialect a dead cert…
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 4, 2024 18:53:25 GMT
Just booked for this with the credit I got from my White Christmas ticket (unable to attend due to lurgy).
Looks like it’s selling quite well so far. Looking forward to Sheffield’s take on my favourite play.
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Post by Jon on Jan 4, 2024 23:30:44 GMT
Has The Crucible ever been performed at The Crucible?
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Post by lynette on Jan 5, 2024 13:58:13 GMT
Just booked for this with the credit I got from my White Christmas ticket (unable to attend due to lurgy). Looks like it’s selling quite well so far. Looking forward to Sheffield’s take on my favourite play. A great play. Rarely messed up so hope this one is good too. Fab parts for actors.
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 6, 2024 9:21:17 GMT
Has The Crucible ever been performed at The Crucible? Yes, at least once. I won't lie, I couldn't remember the year. Turns out it was 2004. Some bloke called Douglas Henshall played John Proctor, alongside Amelia Bullmore. Wonder what became of them?
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Post by blaxx on Jan 7, 2024 18:35:05 GMT
I'm confused, what is this?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 7, 2024 20:08:16 GMT
I'm confused, what is this? It’s the world famous play The Crucible by Arthur Miller being staged at the internationally renowned theatre called The Crucible which is in the English city of Sheffield. This forum is not only for West End productions. And never will be.
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Post by blaxx on Jan 7, 2024 20:19:59 GMT
I'm confused, what is this? It’s the world famous play The Crucible by Arthur Miller being staged at the internationally renowned theatre called The Crucible which is in the English city of Sheffield. This forum is not only for West End productions. And never will be. Gotcha, thank you - wasn't aware.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 25, 2024 16:45:41 GMT
The artwork is making me nervous…
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 25, 2024 17:50:35 GMT
Abigail Williams crying over spilt milk .. what era do those glass milk bottles suggest 50s, 60s? A very '70s burnt orange?
c.f. cheeky ankle socks ..
Notwithstanding, I see what you mean.
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Post by sph on Feb 25, 2024 17:56:31 GMT
I can see why they'd maybe want to do a 50s-style design. The show was written as an allegory for 1950s McCarthyism so it does follow I guess.
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 25, 2024 18:13:21 GMT
I could actually go with John Proctor as a milkman, if I had to. Literally rattling along on one of those battery driven 'floats', as we used to say
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Post by christya on Feb 25, 2024 23:08:28 GMT
Oh, what a shame. I love this play but no interest in it being modernised, even if I do get why they'd make it fifties.
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Post by voyagerweb on Mar 3, 2024 13:21:16 GMT
First thoughts from the preview last night;
It is too stripped back (no set) It is too long 3hrs 7mins including interval Actors fantastic I don't understand why sometimes they speak into microphones and sometimes they don't 3/5 stars
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 3, 2024 13:27:45 GMT
First thoughts from the preview last night; It is too stripped back (no set) It is too long 3hrs 7mins including interval Actors fantastic I don't understand why sometimes they speak into microphones and sometimes they don't 3/5 stars What period is it set in? Indeterminate?
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Post by voyagerweb on Mar 3, 2024 13:54:45 GMT
First thoughts from the preview last night; It is too stripped back (no set) It is too long 3hrs 7mins including interval Actors fantastic I don't understand why sometimes they speak into microphones and sometimes they don't 3/5 stars What period is it set in? Indeterminate? Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell you, there is no real mention of anything, its not modern at least so maybe 50's.
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Post by lynette on Mar 3, 2024 14:02:29 GMT
Sounds grim. It was written in modern times of course but Miller set it in the American past because of the McCarthy influenced times. So setting in 50s misses the point he was making about his own times.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 3, 2024 14:14:10 GMT
Why can’t they just put on a production of a classic play that people clearly want to see given the ticket sales without screwing around with it? Innovate sure but not having a set or any sense of period is not innovative. It’s cheap and does nothing to help people to appreciate the play. So bloody annoying.
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Post by aspieandy on Mar 3, 2024 14:20:32 GMT
Sounds grim. It was written in modern times of course but Miller set it in the American past because of the McCarthy influenced times. So setting in 50s misses the point he was making about his own times. The recent NT production made plenty of valid points about our times, not least that gaggle of young women echoing the pressures of social media and conformity (Mary Warren, f.i.)
Imo, the writing stands up. First tier art. I'd be interested to see what it can tease out about issues from other eras.
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Post by Fleance on Mar 3, 2024 14:57:27 GMT
When The Crucible opened on Broadway in 1953, set in the times of the Salem witch trials, there was no mistaking the play's relevance to contemporary times and the McCarthy era. In his review in The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Mr. Miller nor his audiences are unaware of certain similarities between the perversions of justice then and today."
Shakespeare wrote in a similar style, to some extent, by setting his plays in Italy, etc., when they're really comments about England. You don't have to hit audiences over the head to make a point.
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Post by meister on Mar 3, 2024 16:57:35 GMT
I could actually go with John Proctor as a milkman, if I had to. Literally rattling along on one of those battery driven 'floats', as we used to say But rename the character’Ernie’, of course! (Or has he been cancelled…?!? 😉
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Post by voyagerweb on Mar 3, 2024 21:09:01 GMT
Sounds grim. It was written in modern times of course but Miller set it in the American past because of the McCarthy influenced times. So setting in 50s misses the point he was making about his own times. Looking back the courtroom scene has fluorescent strip lighting as a feature so maybe that dates the production timeline
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 7, 2024 13:44:12 GMT
Anthony Lau and Georgia Lowe gone for an *interesting* style. Press night tonight, I think, so we'll see what the reviews are like.
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Post by aspieandy on Mar 7, 2024 14:48:15 GMT
It looks like someone's put this thread up on a giant screen.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 7, 2024 15:59:44 GMT
Is that the actual set behind, with the classroom chairs and mic stands?
Wardrobe will have the whole run off by the looks of all that linen. No point in pressing that for it to be creased again five minutes later.
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Post by voyagerweb on Mar 7, 2024 16:48:02 GMT
Is that the actual set behind, with the classroom chairs and mic stands? Wardrobe will have the whole run off by the looks of all that linen. No point in pressing that for it to be creased again five minutes later. Yes that’s the ‘set’
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 7, 2024 19:10:17 GMT
Just seen the production photos. I feel a bit more encouraged actually. It looks very atmospheric.
Using the Crucible theatre’s CRUCIBLE logo as part of the set is a bold move.
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Post by ceebee on Mar 7, 2024 20:49:54 GMT
Just seen the production photos. I feel a bit more encouraged actually. It looks very atmospheric. Using the Crucible theatre’s CRUCIBLE logo as part of the set is a bold move. Yes, the photos look good. Plus I think Rose Shalloo is an excellent actress - I could be tempted to jump on a train to see this.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 18, 2024 13:50:00 GMT
Discounted ticket for this Wednesday’s matinee on the Noticeboard.
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Post by Steve on Mar 23, 2024 22:22:47 GMT
Thought this was great. Less about the infectiousness of hysteria, more about the insidiousness and effectiveness of repeating lies over and over, which feels like much of modern politics. The stripped back vibe was creepy. Sargon Yelda, Laura Pyper, Rose Shalloo and Anoushka Lucas are all excellent. Some spoilers follow. . . I never realised how creepy it is for people to converse underneath a table. But when its the only real set, and when actors are crawling there, and when there's a sinister tone, and the lighting dims, I felt my goosebumps raising. But these atmospherics are just mood setters really, as the actual substance of the staging is to have the liars simply boldly stride to the microphones and lie blatantly again and again and again. This is different from the Old Vic and National Productions, for example, where the "witches" were racing around like scary wolf packs hunting prey. Here the "witches" don't form mobs as such, they just separate out and take to spaced out microphones and start boldfacedly lying. It's less viscerally frightening, more intellectually frightening. Where this production really excels is in bringing out the slow-build of Arthur Miller's script, whereby we complacent frogs really aren't aware the water around us is boiling until its all too late. Sargon Yelda, in particular, is SO good at making the Reverend Paris seem utterly civilised and reasonable for the longest time, and then SO good at showing how his self interest is served by willingly succumbing to the poisonous lies on repeat. He feels like a prototype of your modern self-interested person selling out democracy by embracing lies, without thinking through where this will all end. Laura Pyper invests such intelligent and sharp-witted, yet complacent, indignance in her two characters' resistance to all the lies around her, that its actually quite shocking when she starts to drown in them. And as the principal liar, Abigail Williams, Rose Shalloo becomes ever increasingly assertive and perversely thrilled and reveling in the sound and power of her own words. And as the tragically honourable Elizabeth Proctor, Anoushka Lucas is especially poignant and sensitive in the eye of the storm. This take on Miller's play really brings out the overwhelmingly destructive snowballing effect of self-interest and lies. And by being so stripped back, it reveals how brilliant a piece of slow-building drama the writing is. 4 stars from me.
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