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Post by bordeaux on Jul 14, 2017 9:26:47 GMT
Saw this last night (as second part of an Almeida double-bill having seen Hamlet in the afternoon) and really enjoyed it. But I agree with those who heard a lot of Trunchbull in Carvel's Murdoch, and a surprisingly subdued Australian accent, I thought. The Almeida is on an amazing roll at the moment. When is the announcement of their next couple of shows due? Presumably Icke is due another big show?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 9:30:09 GMT
Thanks rory !
I must admit to a fondness for Richard Coyle SO Fond Love his hair Like a curly Whirly
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Post by lynette on Jul 14, 2017 17:25:09 GMT
Shame that series The Collection from Amazon isnt continuing. I liked it.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jul 15, 2017 7:31:17 GMT
Saw this last night (as second part of an Almeida double-bill having seen Hamlet in the afternoon) and really enjoyed it. But I agree with those who heard a lot of Trunchbull in Carvel's Murdoch, and a surprisingly subdued Australian accent, I thought. The Almeida is on an amazing roll at the moment. When is the announcement of their next couple of shows due? Presumably Icke is due another big show? The Almeida new season announcement is on Monday, priority booking for Friends opens on Friday 21st.
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Post by Spectator on Jul 15, 2017 7:51:45 GMT
Saw this last night (as second part of an Almeida double-bill having seen Hamlet in the afternoon) and really enjoyed it. But I agree with those who heard a lot of Trunchbull in Carvel's Murdoch, and a surprisingly subdued Australian accent, I thought. The Almeida is on an amazing roll at the moment. When is the announcement of their next couple of shows due? Presumably Icke is due another big show? Yes, from the clips I've heard and the reviews, his performance sounds very different to Murdoch during that period.
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Post by stefy69 on Jul 17, 2017 8:57:19 GMT
Tickets for this go on sale at 10.00 AM this morning ! Yay !
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Post by Rory on Jul 17, 2017 8:58:00 GMT
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Post by lynette on Jul 17, 2017 11:40:29 GMT
Watching that you tube clip I would say that Carvel has nailed it - the nod of the head, the slightly sideways look etc. Interesting that the voice over says Murd'ch not MurdOch which is what I would say and have heard now.
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Post by Snciole on Jul 17, 2017 15:30:03 GMT
Richard Coyle was fabulous in this. It is basically a story of men feeling inadequate so dealing with that by appearing ruthless. Murdoch is clearly haunted by the achievements of his father, Keith and bizarrely his Great-Grandfather James' turning against the CoE to create the Free Church. Coyle's Larry Lamb is a man fighting against his natural left wing principles, desperate to prove his former colleagues wrong and please Murdoch. Carvel gets Murdoch's looming, constant presence spot on, as Lamb says "I suspect you will outlive us all". Even when he isn't on the stage he dominates and some of the most shocking scenes are not the extremes Lamb and his team (including Tony Turner, who was great in This House, Sophie Stanton and Justin Salinger) will resort too but Murdoch's prudishness towards it ("Knickers in a tin!?") when he constantly demands more, more and even more.
It reminded me of This House, which I adored, and James Graham is at his finest when looking at history to remind us of how we came to be.
I am glad to see it transferring and I hope the staging isn't lost in a larger space.
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Post by theplayer on Jul 18, 2017 17:37:15 GMT
Saw this last Saturday night. Brilliant piece. Whoever hasn't seen it is better off catching it at the Almeida. The transfer won't do it justice.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 18, 2017 20:41:25 GMT
Evenin' all. Is anybody going to see this tomorrow night? Just wondered if there were any interval 'hello's to be had. I'll be in drag and wearing a scarf littered in blonde hairs, as a tribute to our sexy Bert.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jul 19, 2017 7:47:39 GMT
Saw this last Saturday night. Brilliant piece. Whoever hasn't seen it is better off catching it at the Almeida. The transfer won't do it justice. Why won't it?
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Post by theplayer on Jul 19, 2017 11:49:04 GMT
Saw this last Saturday night. Brilliant piece. Whoever hasn't seen it is better off catching it at the Almeida. The transfer won't do it justice. Why won't it? Because the Almeida is a better theatre than the Duke of York's. It's a more intimate space, which makes for a better performance. Especially for a play like Ink.
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Post by stefy69 on Jul 20, 2017 5:59:16 GMT
Can't comment on the Almeida but the Duke of York's is a lovely little intimate theatre and as a bonus has lovely front of house staff.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 8:15:11 GMT
Well. The knockabout let's-put-on-a-newspaper first act is all zip and laughs, The second act, not so much.
Fabulous set and Richard Coyle leads a terrific cast with Jack Holden, Justin Salinger, Sophie Stanton and particularly Tim Steed as standouts.
Highlight of the evening? Amongst the swearing, smoking etc warning posted on the wall, we're now also warned that there are latex balloons on stage. I kid you not.
This newspaper lark doesn't seem that much fun though. No wonder Larry Lamb left the business go into 'Eastenders'. Working with Babs Windsor must have been so much easier.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jul 21, 2017 7:11:05 GMT
Because the Almeida is a better theatre than the Duke of York's. It's a more intimate space, which makes for a better performance. Especially for a play like Ink. There aren't many spaces as or more intimate than the Almeida about though. It's not like they've chosen to transfer it to the Palladium.
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Post by stefy69 on Jul 21, 2017 10:02:31 GMT
The Duke Of York's is probably the nearest you'd get to the Almeida anyway, in the West End. I did hear Ink looked at the Dominion, though . Now you're just being silly aren't you , it was the Open Air that they looked at...
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 21, 2017 12:41:46 GMT
Well. The knockabout let's-put-on-a-newspaper first act is all zip and laughs, The second act, not so much. Fabulous set and Richard Coyle leads a terrific cast with Jack Holden, Justin Salinger, Sophie Stanton and particularly Tim Steed as standouts. Highlight of the evening? Amongst the swearing, smoking etc warning posted on the wall, we're now also warned that there are latex balloons on stage. I kid you not. This newspaper lark doesn't seem that much fun though. No wonder Larry Lamb left the business go into 'Eastenders'. Working with Babs Windsor must have been so much easier. Some people are allergic to latex, especially those who work in healthcare, and in these days of ambulance chasing lawyers, we have to be warned about everything. It's the use of non-toxic smoke effects that annoys me. I'm from the north; I like my smoke to be toxic.
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Post by lynette on Jul 21, 2017 13:50:10 GMT
Why does this need an intimate space? I think it would do well in say The Lyttleton. 😂 No seriously, the set could be expanded and the printing effects could go big. Might get the message over better too. Intimate chats no problem with the skills, turning stages, lighting blah blah. The problem with a large theatre would be the audience. I don't think it has such huge pulling power.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 21, 2017 20:36:16 GMT
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Post by theatremadness on Jul 21, 2017 20:49:11 GMT
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Post by lynette on Jul 21, 2017 20:59:04 GMT
Thank you for changing the subject.
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Post by danielwhit on Jul 27, 2017 22:39:30 GMT
Saw this tonight - straight up there as one of the best productions I've seen recently.
The two acts do feel very different, however I think the balance was very accurately struck. We had the knockabout humour in Act One, so we needed some harder content to show the downsides likewise.
Like other commenters, I felt I learnt a lot about The Sun's Murdoch conception. For my generation it was just "there" and I had never been interested enough to look at its rise.
I hope it does well on the transfer - and wonder (despite/especially with the Sky Arts link) whether this is an outside chance to be NTLive'd in the next few months.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2017 23:23:45 GMT
Caught this at the beginning of the week, and was very impressed.
Great set, well directed, some fun set-pieces - including the assembling of the Sun staff in a musical montage number (could have been awful but I found well-judged), uniformly strong cast and a very clever and insightful script. Plenty to recommend.
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Post by mikey on Jul 28, 2017 6:51:55 GMT
Ditto with the above, saw this on Monday and absolutely loved this!
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Post by crowblack on Jul 31, 2017 13:18:00 GMT
I saw it last Monday - I enjoyed it, though I'm surprised the Guardian went so heavily with the Bertie Carvel / Murdoch angle. It was Richard Coyle's humane and conflicted Larry Lamb who seemed to me to be the centre of the play - Carvel's Murdoch seemed like a cameo and a different style of performance. I was a bit disappointed that it never really got under Murdoch's skin - we were told his motives but, as the play acknowledges, it doesn't get to the 'why' (btw, I wonder whether Carvel's part was cut in previews?). And, while it obviously couldn't be avoided, I didn't really buy the idea of cause and effect that the second half of the play seemed to be arguing about the kidnapping, and, later, Page 3. Still, an entertaining, interesting and thought-provoking evening. The staging is fab - reminded me of Terry Gilliam's Brazil or The Crimson Permanent Insurance from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. There are even filing cabinet door handles around/under the front of the stage by the seating.
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Post by martin1965 on Jul 31, 2017 15:13:48 GMT
Going Saturday, looking forward to it. Whilst there will book for Albion snd the Tennessee Williams☺
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Post by kathryn on Jul 31, 2017 23:25:30 GMT
Enjoyed this a lot from the back of the stalls tonight, despite the restricted view.
I did feel that Murdoch got off very lightly, though.
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Post by stevemar on Aug 1, 2017 16:02:58 GMT
This was very good:
- the usual Rupert Goold touches a la Enron - movement, noise and song in the first half. A small niggle would be that it was almost too restless and noisy; - so, the second half was a good contract concentrating on the two main story lines.
Great performances from Richard Coyle and Bertie Carvel, but like others I would have liked to see more about Rupert Murdoch and suspect some of his scenes may have been cut. Given that he had hardly any interaction with any other characters other than Larry Lamb (presumably deliberate to heighten his sense of awkwardness and isolation) this limited the level of insight into him.
8/10 for me, and another very solid Almeida show.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 18:16:27 GMT
Saw the matinee today and I enjoyed it but don't think I loved it as much as everyone else. The story was very compelling and I do feel I learnt more about the suns history. All the performances were very good and do agree Carvel was a little trunchball like ,like her Australian brother. Richard coyle was also good. Liked the direction and use of music but have to day from my cheap side seat I could not see the tower thing very well if at all. I like the mix of comedy and serious but one thing I though watching it is why is it relieving for now? Newspapers are dying and it is not a part of history that is a must learn about, overall I liked it but can not see th must of it getting a transfer.
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