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Post by Phantom of London on May 12, 2018 11:28:28 GMT
Both plays run for a very long time in the West End. The British love a good farce.
Each play doing 8 performances a week is a stretch - If I was a producer I would play these both in repertory with each other.
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Post by profquatermass on May 12, 2018 11:37:40 GMT
No sex please, we're British #pedant.
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 12, 2018 11:44:06 GMT
Where and when are these plays playing?
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Post by Jan on May 12, 2018 11:45:49 GMT
No sex please, we're British #pedant. No Sex Please, We’re British #Pedant |
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Post by Jon on May 12, 2018 12:17:12 GMT
I think both plays are probably too dated to succeed in today’s West End
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Post by Polly1 on May 12, 2018 13:20:00 GMT
Saw an amateur production of No Sex Please a couple of years ago. Embarrassingly dated.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on May 12, 2018 13:23:09 GMT
Same reason that we don’t get Victorian melodramas, popular theatre of the past dates quickly, They are museum pieces that are best left in the past.
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Post by lynette on May 12, 2018 14:58:54 GMT
It is a bit like the telly sitcoms. Some are golden and will last and some are cringeworthy though we know laughed at the time.
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Post by Jan on May 12, 2018 15:41:39 GMT
I think both plays are probably too dated to succeed in today’s West End Not sure about that, think you might be overestimating a significant section of the local and tourist West End audience. |
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Post by jadnoop on May 12, 2018 16:15:29 GMT
Not sure about the first, but a film adaptation of Run For Your Wife came out in 2012 to very poor reviews and terrible box office. I suppose film performance doesn't necessarily equate to theatre performance, but that wasn't too long ago, so I assume it would make any potential investors nervous about using their money to stage it in the west end.
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Post by dani on May 12, 2018 16:42:12 GMT
There was a Ray Cooney play a few years ago at the Menier. It was dreadful.
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Post by Marwood on May 12, 2018 16:48:43 GMT
Not sure if it was No Sex... or Run that was promised in the back of the programme for Out Of Order when it toured last year, but expect equally stellar casting along the lines of Shaun Williamson, Arthur Bostrom and um, Marlene from OFAH 😛
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 12, 2018 16:49:00 GMT
I am sure people said the same of Ben Travers farces - which had their peak in the 20s and 30s - and now get occasional revivals because they can be seen as good examples of a comedy from a different era.
It is amazing what plays get dug up from the archives
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Post by Phantom of London on May 12, 2018 22:54:58 GMT
There was a Ray Cooney play a few years ago at the Menier. It was dreadful. Not sure if it was No Sex... or Run that was promised in the back of the programme for Out Of Order when it toured last year, but expect equally stellar casting along the lines of Shaun Williamson, Arthur Bostrom and um, Marlene from OFAH 😛 I saw both those the Menier play and Out of Order in Dartford and both were equally awful. However a good director and a dramaturge can turn a dated piece in a modern urgent piece. I haven’t seen No Sex and would like to, I have seen Run For Your Wife nearly 30 years ago and thought it was hilarious. Also on my OP post I realise that there isn’t a massive demand, so why I suggest it can play in repertory with each other. So a run can be more substainable. |
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Post by Marwood on May 12, 2018 23:22:18 GMT
Run For Your Wife : considering the fact it only took about £50 at the box office, I can't believe Amazon still want £11.58 for the DVD of this, I would have thought they'd be giving this away in Poundland by now, but what a cast: Danny Dyer Neil Morrissey Denise Van Outen Sarah Harding Dame Judi Rolf Harris Biggins Lionel Blair Cliff Richard Derek Griffiths Vicki Michelle Bernard Cribbins Richard Briers Jenny Seagrove Brian Murphy June Whitfield Maureen Lipman 'Sir' Jeffrey Holland Su Pollard (and I'm going to stop it there because I'm becoming star struck by this cast myself: IMDB and be awestruck by how far down the bill Tom Conti and Dennis Waterman are) if Richard Curtis had been involved with a film with a cast like that it would be on TV every Christmas Day, mark my words...
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2018 18:23:36 GMT
No sex please, we're British #pedant. Shouldn’t it actually be No Sex Please: We’re British but it’s never written that way. #pedant |
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Post by Jan on May 14, 2018 17:36:02 GMT
Quite possible in about 100 years the National will present both to huge acclaim, of course... The Orange Tree used to do Feydeau farces and Aldwych farces but never an Whitehall farce because they didn’t feel they would work for a modern audience. So that suggests about a hundred years is right. Let’s hope Norris isn’t still there and doesn’t choose to direct as his first ever attempt at directing a comedy. |
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Post by Marwood on May 14, 2018 19:50:05 GMT
can't believe Amazon still want £11.58 for the DVD of this, I would have thought they'd be giving this away in Poundland by now £5.99 new / £3 secondhand on Ebay, nearer the mark, I'd guess. I’m impressed/shocked that someone went out of their way to see if they could get this any cheaper 😂 |
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Post by schuttep on May 17, 2018 12:26:25 GMT
Did anyone say which theatre these are playing? i've seen Run For Your Wife (funny in parts but dated) but not No Sex. I'd like to see the casting before I agree to No Sex.
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Post by sf on May 17, 2018 12:33:53 GMT
Quite possible in about 100 years the National will present both to huge acclaim, of course... And as part of the same season, some trendy new playwright will take an (antique) DVD of An Audience with Victoria Wood and turn "Whoops! There Go My Bloomers!" into an actual play, so that the two can be performed in rep. |
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