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Post by zahidf on Aug 1, 2018 9:17:17 GMT
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Post by Jan on Aug 1, 2018 10:34:49 GMT
Interested to see how it compares with Michael Grandage’s definitive Donmar production.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 1, 2018 11:18:55 GMT
“A new version by” so maybe quite radically reimagined (which, for me and Ibsen, can only be a good thing).
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Post by Jan on Aug 1, 2018 11:30:16 GMT
“A new version by” so maybe quite radically reimagined (which, for me and Ibsen, can only be a good thing). His Uncle Vanya was also a new version but not radically reimagined. Interesting the publicity highlights “to duck” as a verb meaning “avoid” which is one of the themes of the play. |
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Post by bordeaux on Aug 1, 2018 11:45:16 GMT
Interested to see how it compares with Michael Grandage’s definitive Donmar production. That was good but even better in my view was the very funny Peter Hall version with Alex Jennings and David Threlfall at the Phoenix in 1990. Hall had compared it to (recent, darker) Ayckbourn in interviews in the run-up to the play and fully justified the comparison with his production. |
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 1, 2018 11:59:40 GMT
“A new version by” so maybe quite radically reimagined (which, for me and Ibsen, can only be a good thing). His Uncle Vanya was also a new version but not radically reimagined. Interesting the publicity highlights “to duck” as a verb meaning “avoid” which is one of the themes of the play. His Oresteia was also a ‘new version’, it looks like he calls every revival that, just in case he decides to go in a different direction. |
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 1, 2018 13:09:55 GMT
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Post by Jan on Aug 1, 2018 13:40:36 GMT
Interested to see how it compares with Michael Grandage’s definitive Donmar production. That was good but even better in my view was the very funny Peter Hall version with Alex Jennings and David Threlfall at the Phoenix in 1990. Hall had compared it to (recent, darker) Ayckbourn in interviews in the run-up to the play and fully justified the comparison with his production. I did not see that one. The update by Simon Stone at the Barbican was good too. There was an NT version years ago with Michael Bryant where one performance had to be abandoned because the duck wouldn’t stop quacking - a live one also appeared in the Simon Stone production swimming enthusiastically in a smallish glass tank - somewhat distracting. |
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Post by learfan on Aug 1, 2018 16:56:09 GMT
Interested to see how it compares with Michael Grandage’s definitive Donmar production. Missed that but the Alex Jennings/David Threlfull production in the early 90s was excellent. May well book for this. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 2, 2018 12:45:46 GMT
A new version. Give me strength.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 13:13:34 GMT
Sorry, Lynette, but I think audiences for Ibsen plays performed in the original Norwegian are pretty thin on the ground in London. Probably Brexit's fault.  |
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Post by crowblack on Aug 2, 2018 13:25:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 14:05:36 GMT
I don't think the majority of the people who voted for Brexit either know or care if Norway is in the EU or not. Just so long as it's not in Britain. They're "taking their country back" don't you know.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 2, 2018 14:33:03 GMT
I don't think the majority of the people who voted for Brexit either know or care if Norway is in the EU or not. Just so long as it's not in Britain. They're "taking their country back" don't you know. They are also in the EEA which requires signing up to the 'four freedoms' (freedom of capital, movement, goods and people between member countries). It isn't a member of the Customs Union. People in the middle, such as businesses that trade with Europe see the Norway option as the best available for us. So Brexiters will hate it (and Norway too). |
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 2, 2018 17:16:09 GMT
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Post by Jan on Aug 2, 2018 17:16:45 GMT
I don't think the majority of the people who voted for Brexit either know or care if Norway is in the EU or not. How do you know that ? |
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Post by Jan on Aug 2, 2018 17:21:00 GMT
I don't think the majority of the people who voted for Brexit either know or care if Norway is in the EU or not. Just so long as it's not in Britain. They're "taking their country back" don't you know. They are also in the EEA which requires signing up to the 'four freedoms' (freedom of capital, movement, goods and people between member countries). It isn't a member of the Customs Union. People in the middle, such as businesses that trade with Europe see the Norway option as the best available for us. So Brexiters will hate it (and Norway too). Your knowledge of what businesses want is based on what ? I think probably you are confusing manufacturers with businesses. The EEA doesn’t bring much for service businesses as the EU itself has never much bothered with them. You also make the strange assumption that you know what Brexiters think and that they all think the same - you could do with diversity training. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 17:24:37 GMT
I don't think the majority of the people who voted for Brexit either know or care if Norway is in the EU or not. How do you know that ? Oh I don't really. It's just a sweeping generalisation based upon the small number people I've spoken to who voted to leave. Kind of why I said " I don't think" rather than simply stating "The majority of the people . . . " |
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Post by Jan on Aug 2, 2018 17:28:12 GMT
I don't really. It's just a sweeping generalisation based upon the small number people I've spoken to who voted to leave. Kind of why I said " I don't think" rather than simply stating "The majority of the people . . . " So these few people you spoke to who voted leave - you quizzed them on whether Norway was in the EEA too ? Must have been an odd conversation. |
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Aug 2, 2018 17:32:04 GMT
They are also in the EEA which requires signing up to the 'four freedoms' (freedom of capital, movement, goods and people between member countries). It isn't a member of the Customs Union. People in the middle, such as businesses that trade with Europe see the Norway option as the best available for us. So Brexiters will hate it (and Norway too). Your knowledge of what businesses want is based on what ? I think probably you are confusing manufacturers with businesses. The EEA doesn’t bring much for service businesses as the EU itself has never much bothered with them. You also make the strange assumption that you know what Brexiters think and that they all think the same - you could do with diversity training. Given that May has tried to prioritise goods over services then the EEA would at least give them parity as one of the 'four freedoms'. Anyhow, a throwaway sarcastic comment and you pile in with 'diversity training'? Are you sure you aren't a bleeding heart liberal in disguise? I was alluding a little to Johnson's fatuous comment on business and their not rolling over when faced with such ignorance. |
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Post by jadnoop on Aug 2, 2018 17:55:37 GMT
I don't really. It's just a sweeping generalisation based upon the small number people I've spoken to who voted to leave. Kind of why I said " I don't think" rather than simply stating "The majority of the people . . . " So these few people you spoke to who voted leave - you quizzed them on whether Norway was in the EEA too ? Must have been an odd conversation. ...because lord knows we wouldn't want people on an internet forum saying anything that isn't based on peer-reviewed research. |
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Post by foxa on Aug 9, 2018 11:05:17 GMT
I forgot it was members booking until I got an email so went in late, got in right away and booked exactly what I wanted (£10 tix for The Wild Duck, row F, Saturday night.) V. smooth.
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 10, 2018 7:04:29 GMT
Yes my booking yesterday morning was a hot knife in butter. Was all over and done with inside of 5 minutes. Only putting one show on without any cast announced is clearly the way forward :-).
Wonder why they announced this early though? Any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 7:40:24 GMT
It's not *that* early. Lies will be over in a hot minute, then it's straight on to Dance Nation; surely it's more unusual for a theatre to *not* have at least a couple of announced shows in the pipeline.
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Post by Rory on Aug 10, 2018 8:05:39 GMT
Wonder why they announced this early though? Any ideas? Yes not really that early. All theatres now, except for the Piccadilly, have announced what's on until the end of November at least. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 8:10:31 GMT
My rule of thumb: if a play is announced early enough that I could choose a performance on any Saturday of the run, then it's early. If I have to make a special week-night trip or shuffle some things around or pray that there's a decent ticket for the *one* slot I have left for the rest of the year, it's a positively *late* announcement. (Most theatres run somewhere in between where I don't have total personal availability but I still have a solid number of Saturday performances to choose from, which is workable. The Wild Duck *will* require some shuffling so is late by my standards if not by anyone else's.  ) |
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Post by zahidf on Aug 16, 2018 9:19:52 GMT
Tickets for this bought easily enough!
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 16, 2018 9:36:21 GMT
Yes, surprisingly painless. Completely forgot booking opened today till 10:30, only had 10 people in front of me in the queue and got my favourite £20 seat for the only Saturday matinee I can do!
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Post by Jan on Aug 16, 2018 9:38:05 GMT
Tickets for this bought easily enough! Yep me too. Front centre stalls for the date I wanted. Confirms my suspicion you get a better choice of seats on the first day of public booking than the first day of members booking (based on me having done both many times over the years). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 10:00:41 GMT
No problems here either, apart from a blip where I remembered at 8:30am that they went on sale and then forgot again until after 10am. I see we've gone back to the 7:30pm curtain time, hopefully this bodes well for a shorter performance than we usually get out of Icke...
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