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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 15, 2016 15:48:10 GMT
Sansom is doing a grand job at National Theatre of Scotland - he would be a very credible leader for the RSC That's a rather Pollyanna opinion. He shocked the theatre world by resigning from NTS after barely three years there!
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 15, 2016 16:15:37 GMT
I thought Marianne Elliott had a good chance of taking over at the national, dont know if she applied. Greg Doran is there for the decade so we have him for a few years yet. Shich is fine with me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 16:19:18 GMT
Marianne Elliott has said she wouldn't want to be in charge of a building because it would be too much pressure on her personal life. Though she may yet change her mind in the future; her daughter'll have to move out *eventually*.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 15, 2016 16:22:45 GMT
Is Greg Doran in charge of a building? He looks like the sort of bloke who'd lose the keys and then accidentally come across them a few days later down the side of the sofa when looking for his beard-clippers.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 15, 2016 16:26:45 GMT
We are still none the wiser about next year's season, esp the Swan.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 15, 2016 16:32:11 GMT
Have patience and all will be revealed in due course.
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Post by DuchessConstance on Aug 15, 2016 16:33:26 GMT
Is Greg Doran in charge of a building? He looks like the sort of bloke who'd lose the keys and then accidentally come across them a few days later down the side of the sofa when looking for his beard-clippers. Yeah right, like Greg Doran ever uses beard-clippers.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 15, 2016 16:35:44 GMT
Is Greg Doran in charge of a building? He looks like the sort of bloke who'd lose the keys and then accidentally come across them a few days later down the side of the sofa when looking for his beard-clippers. Yeah right, like Greg Doran ever uses beard-clippers. Well, maybe he spotted the keys but never found the beard-clippers?
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Post by lynette on Aug 15, 2016 17:47:33 GMT
Someone mentioned Maria Aberg. My worst nightmare.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 17:50:45 GMT
Where are the RSC 'constantly' telling everyone how great it is? Every theatre has to promote its work in order to sell tickets, surely? I don't get a sense of the RSC promoting itself more than any other theatre.
As for the RSC despising it's white, middle aged, middle classed audiences, I see no sign of that either. I'm a white, middle aged, middle class person (although admittedly not a male one) and I've always felt extremely welcome in the theatres in Stratford. From the box office to the shop to the restaurant and cafes and the ushers, everyone has been extremely welcoming and friendly. In fact, I feel like exactly their target audience when I'm there.
I'm not so sure that it's the RSC's place to be truly radical and groundbreaking either to be honest. I think they can (and do) do that to a certain extent, but surely there are other theatre companies that are more suited for that sort of thing. For a place where a large portion of their audience is tourists and school groups, they need to stay relatively accessible and traditional.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 15, 2016 18:17:56 GMT
Hear and furthermore hear!!😀
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Post by David J on Aug 15, 2016 20:46:50 GMT
I wouldn't go as far as to call the RSC radical (even when they tried, they produced productions like Troilus and Cressida)
But it did have more visionary directors a few years back. Some of their work I loved, others not so much. Michael Boyd's and David Farr's had hints of Brechtian and expressionism about them that I quite liked. Lots of symbolic imagery to mull over. As for Rupert Goold, his style of theatre has moved into the Almeida nowadays (though he has been more creative with his latest Richard III)
The RSC main theatre productions nowadays (apart from Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline) are the opposite. Detailed and hyper-realistic. Lots of big detailed sets, from the architecture in last year's Othello to the recreation of Charlecote in Love's Labour's Lost/Won. It's rather reflective of Gregory Doran's style of directing, working with actors to bring every detail of the texts to the forefront.
Don't think that I dislike the productions the RSC is putting on these days. Many of them have been great, and I still love Gregory Doran as a director but I have seen him do better. As an artistic director he could bring more variety to his seasons. The Swan Theatre productions are the only ones I look forward to the most
My thoughts on the theatre has been influenced by the RSC's work under Michael Boyd's regime and nothing can change that. I'm gaining more interest in what Emma Rice's artistic directorship is bringing to the Globe. Despite my reservations her Midsummer reminded me that anything is possible when producing Shakespeare. And at least, as stated elsewhere she could be allowing a little bit of variety by including a traditional production next year.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 15, 2016 21:22:44 GMT
And at least, as stated elsewhere she could be allowing a little bit of variety by including a traditional production next year. But whose tradition? Many of the people bleating for a "traditional" production have different things in their minds.
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Post by westwaywanderer on Aug 18, 2016 21:25:51 GMT
Anyone heard any goss about whats on at Stratford next year? The announcement must be inminent Towards the end of this year and the beginning of 2017 the revival of the Tempest is on! But book fast as tickets are already selling out!
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 18, 2016 22:17:10 GMT
Er yes thanks for that, its been announced for some months now! I am actually talking about the 2017 "summer" season😉
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 22, 2016 13:57:43 GMT
The Hypocrite, a major new Richard Bean comedy set at the time of the English Civil War, a co-production between Hull Truck and the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be a centrepiece of 2017’s Hull City of Culture Festival, before transferring to the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Post by Jan on Aug 22, 2016 15:56:02 GMT
The Hypocrite, a major new Richard Bean comedy set at the time of the English Civil War, a co-production between Hull Truck and the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be a centrepiece of 2017’s Hull City of Culture Festival, before transferring to the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon. What does "major" mean in that press release ? Big cast ?
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 22, 2016 16:36:58 GMT
Just looked it up in google and there is interview from couple of years ago mentioning the play and saying lead role had been written for Simon Russell Beale! If that still holds the it would fit in with him finishing Tempest.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 16:39:40 GMT
Ooh, Richard Bean would be interesting! I LOVED The Nap!
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Post by Jan on Aug 22, 2016 17:18:07 GMT
Ooh, Richard Bean would be interesting! I LOVED The Nap! Richard Bean provides a valuable service passing off as his own jokes from the 1970s so that a new audience can enjoy them again. Simon Russell-Beale delivered a few of them in his "improved" version of London Assurance so there is a connection
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 22, 2016 18:21:42 GMT
Ooh, Richard Bean would be interesting! I LOVED The Nap! Richard Bean provides a valuable service passing off as his own jokes from the 1970s so that a new audience can enjoy them again. Simon Russell-Beale delivered a few of them in his "improved" version of London Assurance so there is a connection Ooh Jan, i take it you arent a fan? 😃
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 20:03:55 GMT
Richard Bean is a lazy writer. I can happily miss anything he's written.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 22, 2016 20:13:45 GMT
Tend to agree if im honest. One man etc was ok but the casting made it. I saw Pitcairn in chichester and thought it awful. That said if SRB is indeed in this then i will prob give it a go.
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Post by theatreliker on Aug 22, 2016 20:42:13 GMT
The Nap was the perfect mix of play and performance space which made for a brilliant theatrical experience. Still one of the best things I've seen this year.
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Post by bordeaux on Aug 22, 2016 21:53:29 GMT
Re the Richard Bean play:
This is from an interview with Mark Lawson in the Guardian in 2014: '...two scripts for Hull’s celebrations as City of Culture in 2017. The Hypocrite is a serious farce set during the English civil war, when the city was the first place to close its gates on Charles I; and there will be a “response play” to a 1970s script by a well-known northern dramatist, which Bean asks me to keep vague “because I haven’t written to ask his permission yet”.'
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians?
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Post by Jan on Aug 23, 2016 5:59:30 GMT
Re the Richard Bean play:
This is from an interview with Mark Lawson in the Guardian in 2014: '...two scripts for Hull’s celebrations as City of Culture in 2017. The Hypocrite is a serious farce set during the English civil war, when the city was the first place to close its gates on Charles I; and there will be a “response play” to a 1970s script by a well-known northern dramatist, which Bean asks me to keep vague “because I haven’t written to ask his permission yet”.'
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? A response to the 1970s TV series The Comedians is more likely because that's where he gets his jokes from.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 23, 2016 13:07:17 GMT
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? Yes, he was reported in interview with Hull Daily Mail that it is indeed Comedians by Trevor Griffiths.
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Post by lynette on Aug 23, 2016 13:11:47 GMT
O dear, Bean. Was chatting t'other day about SRB and his next role and was hoping for something modern. This sounds like using an historic context to push a comtemporary concept...again already. Oh well, hope for the best.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 23, 2016 13:22:10 GMT
O dear, Bean. Was chatting t'other day about SRB and his next role and was hoping for something modern. This sounds like using an historic context to push a comtemporary concept...again already. Oh well, hope for the best. Never fear Lynette im hoping rsc have lured him back with a couple of parts in 2017. So the Bean play and say Morose in Jonson's Silent Woman. I can only hope! Wish rsc would just 'king announce the season😕😕
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Post by Jan on Aug 23, 2016 15:48:21 GMT
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? Yes, he was reported in interview with Hull Daily Mail that it is indeed Comedians by Trevor Griffiths. Hmmm ... I wonder if the old Marxist will give permission for the writer of England People Very Nice to "respond" to his most notable play ? Seems unlikely. Maybe Bean ought to get on and finish The Count of Monte Cristo instead, an NT commission he completed to such an inadequate standard they had to cancel the production.
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