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Post by david on Mar 18, 2020 18:15:44 GMT
Just seen this posted on their Twitter -
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 19:48:36 GMT
Sounds like they’ve sent a bunch of emails asking for permission. Hopefully it’ll come off.
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Post by Jon on Mar 18, 2020 20:11:51 GMT
Sounds like they’ve sent a bunch of emails asking for permission. Hopefully it’ll come off. I suspect it's be online only if it goes ahead as broadcast rights are a different ball game altogether.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 18, 2020 20:13:29 GMT
I suspect it's be online only if it goes ahead as broadcast rights are a different ball game altogether. It looks like the BBC are going to show the Almeida's Albion. I hope they can show Jerusalem (unlikely I know, but...).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2020 20:13:46 GMT
Sounds like they’ve sent a bunch of emails asking for permission. Hopefully it’ll come off. I suspect it's be online only if it goes ahead as broadcast rights are a different ball game altogether. And I hope it’s behind a paywall system for industry support.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 18, 2020 20:17:42 GMT
And I hope it’s behind a paywall system for industry support. That would make it harder to access at a time when many are finding themselves out of work, and theatres would miss a huge opportunity to reach out beyond their mainly middle-class, middle-aged and over demographic. They could bring on board a generation of converts here.
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Post by Jon on Mar 18, 2020 20:22:14 GMT
looks like the BBC are going to show the Almeida's Albion. I hope they can show Jerusalem (unlikely I know, but...). I think Albion was always going to debut on television as it was filmed quite recently. I would probably guess that while not strictly theatre, I wouldn't be surprised if things like King Charles III, The Hollow Crown air on TV.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 18, 2020 20:39:43 GMT
King Charles III, The Hollow Crown air on TV. They say they're putting a load of things back on iplayer so they could be included in that.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 21, 2020 10:14:54 GMT
Yesterday I walked from London Bridge to Westminster along the South bank. Pubs, bars and restaurants open and all doing good business but I could of walked into any and got a table. I walked past the cold brutalish Nash and no bars open unlike the NFT and RFH which were both had busy bars.
I'm guessing the NT doesn't need to make any money?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 12:11:24 GMT
Yesterday I walked from London Bridge to Westminster along the South bank. Pubs, bars and restaurants open and all doing good business but I could of walked into any and got a table. I walked past the cold brutalish Nash and no bars open unlike the NFT and RFH which were both had busy bars. I'm guessing the NT doesn't need to make any money? How do you suddenly open when you've made 400 staff redundant?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 21, 2020 12:59:57 GMT
Yesterday I walked from London Bridge to Westminster along the South bank. Pubs, bars and restaurants open and all doing good business but I could of walked into any and got a table. I walked past the cold brutalish Nash and no bars open unlike the NFT and RFH which were both had busy bars. I'm guessing the NT doesn't need to make any money? How do you suddenly open when you've made 400 staff redundant? Are the bar staff on the NT payroll or are they outsourced? Either way they have real estate gold going to waste
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 21, 2020 13:17:05 GMT
Yesterday I walked from London Bridge to Westminster along the South bank. Pubs, bars and restaurants open and all doing good business but I could of walked into any and got a table. I walked past the cold brutalish Nash and no bars open unlike the NFT and RFH which were both had busy bars. I'm guessing the NT doesn't need to make any money? How do you suddenly open when you've made 400 staff redundant? Are the bar staff on the NT payroll or are they outsourced? Either way they have real estate gold going to waste
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 21, 2020 13:27:32 GMT
As the question has now been asked twice 😉, I feel compelled to answer.
Although the NT's bar staff provide their services to an in-house commercial subsidiary (Royal National Theatre Enterprises Ltd), they are employed, in the legal sense, by the parent, "and the cost of their employment is recharged to the company."
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 8, 2020 14:37:18 GMT
Tonight.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 11, 2022 18:25:20 GMT
Hex closed 22nd Jan and on a prime spot on the southbank they are still advertising it on the 11th March
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Post by emsworthian on Mar 15, 2022 11:13:09 GMT
I'm not sure if this belongs on this thread but here goes: Yesterday I felt so depressed by the news that I took out a month's subscription to National Theatre Live and watched "London Assurance". I found it hilarious. It made me nostalgic for the days when the NT was fun. OK I wouldn't want an entire season of Victorian comedies but it would be good to have a few more productions there with a sense of joy. Perhaps "Jack Absolute..." will bring this.
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Post by peggs on Mar 15, 2022 22:12:06 GMT
Adored this when I saw it and when I saw it had been added did think oh now I might get a month's subscription.
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Post by paplazaroo on May 27, 2023 7:49:03 GMT
NT doing a press conference mid June to ‘announce programming’, I have a suspicion it’ll be to announce Norris is stepping down… let’s see
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Post by zahidf on Jun 1, 2023 12:14:28 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jun 2, 2023 17:33:00 GMT
NT doing a press conference mid June to ‘announce programming’, I have a suspicion it’ll be to announce Norris is stepping down… let’s see Pretty much an open secret that's what the press conference is for (and there are only two names under consideration for the new AD).
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 2, 2023 17:56:39 GMT
If the AD resigns surely the post has to go through the usual process that all public sector job go through?
Maybe X is already lined up but still a process needs to be applied - doesn't it ?
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Post by kate8 on Jun 3, 2023 11:40:08 GMT
NT doing a press conference mid June to ‘announce programming’, I have a suspicion it’ll be to announce Norris is stepping down… let’s see Pretty much an open secret that's what the press conference is for (and there are only two names under consideration for the new AD). Indhu Rubasingham and Clint Dyer? Either could potentially do a good job, although Indhu has more experience. She seems perfect for the job - successful stint as AD of a smaller theatre, a few West End transfers, interesting commissions and critical success, and she’s directed several times at the NT, plus it would be nice to have both a woman and POC. Dyer seems set up as successor, but so did Erica Whyman at the RSC, and there will be a selection process. There are quite a few AD jobs vacant (Hampstead, Chichester), soon to be vacant (Royal Court, Donmar, Kiln, NT) or new appointees not yet in post (RSC). Are there others? It will be interesting to see how the theatre landscape looks over the next 5 years or so with all of these places under new leadership.
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Post by Jon on Jun 3, 2023 12:24:32 GMT
Pretty much an open secret that's what the press conference is for (and there are only two names under consideration for the new AD). Indhu Rubasingham and Clint Dyer? Either could potentially do a good job, although Indhu has more experience. She seems perfect for the job - successful stint as AD of a smaller theatre, a few West End transfers, interesting commissions and critical success, and she’s directed several times at the NT, plus it would be nice to have both a woman and POC. Dyer seems set up as successor, but so did Erica Whyman at the RSC, and there will be a selection process. There are quite a few AD jobs vacant (Hampstead, Chichester), soon to be vacant (Royal Court, Donmar, Kiln, NT) or new appointees not yet in post (RSC). Are there others? It will be interesting to see how the theatre landscape looks over the next 5 years or so with all of these places under new leadership. Chichester's AD position has been filled, it's Justin Audibert.
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Post by kate8 on Jun 3, 2023 12:46:33 GMT
I’d forgotten that, thanks.
Also JST and the Orange Tree’s ADs are pretty new in post.
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Post by lynette on Jun 3, 2023 18:06:11 GMT
Not sure I would have confidence in Rubasingham considering the situation which lost them a lot of support that she presided over at The Tricycle now Kiln.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jun 3, 2023 22:43:45 GMT
If the AD resigns surely the post has to go through the usual process that all public sector job go through? Maybe X is already lined up but still a process needs to be applied - doesn't it ? In theory, but in practise it's lip service. It's like the Royal Court, they advertised the AD role on the website, anyone could have applied, but in reality people get the hand on the shoulder and the conversations with serious contenders start months or years before the job is officially open. Anyone going online and submitting an application is unlikely to be considered, it's just there to fulfil the legal requirement. There are some theatres that are more equitable and do assess all applications, but not the really big theatres. I feel like a jaded cynic now!
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Post by princeton on Jun 3, 2023 23:47:26 GMT
My guess is that Indhu Rubasingham will be announced as Joint Deputy Director alongside Clint Dyer from the start of 2024 which will put either of them (or indeed both if they follow the RSC model) in pole position to succeed Rufus Norris. There would still have to be an open appointment process but they would look like the preferred candidates from the outset.
It would also help explain why The Father and The Assassin, which I thought was great but didn't set the box office alight, is making a return to the Olivier theatre. Proven ability to direct on that huge stage is definitely a plus point for any incoming AD (she's also directed in the Lyttleton and the Dorfman).
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Post by Rory on Jun 11, 2023 13:05:45 GMT
I think the Annual Press Conference is this Thursday, 15th. Exciting!
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Post by zahidf on Jun 11, 2023 15:12:54 GMT
Not sure I would have confidence in Rubasingham considering the situation which lost them a lot of support that she presided over at The Tricycle now Kiln. Hasn't really effected them long term it seems. Kiln seems to sell out more than not, and good shows critically.
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Post by bordeaux on Jun 12, 2023 10:45:22 GMT
No chance of Marianne Elliott going for it? Or Dominic Cooke? They are the directors whose next production I'm most looking forward to these days.
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