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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 13, 2016 14:24:30 GMT
I don't get the thinking behind transferring productions from the intimate Swan to the cavernous Barbican - there is just such a difference in scale - even before tackling the issue of moving from thrust to pros arch. I do wonder if the RSC have taken leave of their senses. It's been done many times before.
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Post by caa on Apr 16, 2016 19:29:36 GMT
I don't get the thinking behind transferring productions from the intimate Swan to the cavernous Barbican - there is just such a difference in scale - even before tackling the issue of moving from thrust to pros arch. I do wonder if the RSC have taken leave of their senses. It's been done many times before. Maybe, but can you think of any successful examples? As I recall in the old RSC London days, some Swan shows would transfer to the Pit or a different theatre such as the Mermaid.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 16, 2016 19:43:57 GMT
It's been done many times before. Maybe, but can you think of any successful examples? As I recall in the old RSC London days, some Swan shows would transfer to the Pit or a different theatre such as the Mermaid. And some would transfer to the Barbican Theatre. Off the top of my head, including Singer, The Jew of Malta, Tamburlaine and A Mad World, My Masters.
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 21, 2016 9:05:10 GMT
Just booked for most of the Barbican transfers. Front row of the stalls is £10 - sat here for Henry V and it's a total bargain. Says "restricted" but it isn't if you're OK to look up. Looks like half the seats are available through RSC, other half through Barbican.
Full price list:
Prices for Loves Labour's Lost / Much Ado not such a bargain, suggest waiting for offers!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 9:22:58 GMT
Wow, really? If £10 seats are still available when public booking opens, I might reconsider my stance on King Lear.
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Post by bordeaux on Apr 21, 2016 12:45:38 GMT
It's been done many times before. Maybe, but can you think of any successful examples? As I recall in the old RSC London days, some Swan shows would transfer to the Pit or a different theatre such as the Mermaid. Terry Hands' production of The Seagull with SRB as Konstantin. 1991, though....
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Post by loureviews on Apr 22, 2016 10:55:12 GMT
Got Cymbeline and Lear, both £55. Lear was selling out quickly for some dates when we went in yesterday.
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Post by fossil on Apr 22, 2016 11:19:07 GMT
Thank you xander for reminding me of the front row tickets. Have booked centre front row seats for Lear and Cymbeline for only £8 each (over 60s matinee price via full members on line booking) and no booking fee. A bargain. The tickets are flagged as restricted view but I had no problem with the view last time I was in the front row at the Barbican.
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Post by Steve on Apr 22, 2016 12:31:39 GMT
If you have a basic Barbican membership, booking opened today as well.
I just used it to book £10 front row tickets for 4 shows.
As a reward for booking multiple shows, you get £2 back per ticket, so the cost is £8 per ticket, with no booking fee! That is good value.
If you have a membership, get on it while the front row tickets are still plentiful. It's as Xanderl said, half are for Barbican members, half for RSC members.
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 22, 2016 14:37:47 GMT
Glad people found the £10 tip useful! Got Cymbeline and Lear, both £55. Lear was selling out quickly for some dates when we went in yesterday. Bear in mind though that the RSC and Barbican each have half the tickets on sale so there are more available than each site shows
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 23, 2016 17:17:48 GMT
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
The cast includes: Akala (Hip Hop Shakespeare), Roger Allam, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Simon Russell Beale, Ian Bostridge, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Anne Marie Duff, English National Opera, Paapa Essiedu, Joseph Fiennes, Alexandra Gilbreath, Henry Goodman, the cast of Horrible Histories, Rufus Hound, Rory Kinnear, John Lithgow, Ian McKellan, Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra, Tim Minchin, Helen Mirren, Alison Moyet, Al Murray, Pippa Nixon, Orchestra of the Swan, Gregory Porter, the Royal Ballet, Antony Sher, The Shires, Meera Syal, David Suchet, Catherine Tate, Rufus Wainwright and Harriet Walter.
And Prince Charles, apparently!
I've caved in and booked to see this at my next-to-local multiplex for just £10, earning me 100 Odeon Premiere points.
And will record the live BBC2 showing for future re-viewing of any especially good bits.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 22:24:29 GMT
#RSCLive was approx 85% atrocious. I'm glad you didn't have to spend too much money on the ticket, HG!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 25, 2016 14:36:22 GMT
Can I also give a mega thanks to Xandergirl for the 10 squid tipoff. Bargain prices, great view and I'm now a very happy camper
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Post by Squire Sullen on Apr 25, 2016 14:54:10 GMT
What a bargain those £10 seats are, and because I booked for Cymbeline, Lear and Alchemist they all reduced to £8 each. Thanks for another tip off, this board really is invaluable to a thrifty theatregoer.
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Post by Xanderl on Jul 20, 2016 10:46:57 GMT
The RSC had to cancel all performances yesterday due to a "problem with their cooling system" and may have to cancel evening performances today ...
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Post by lynette on Jul 20, 2016 16:08:25 GMT
Blimey, this is a bad one considering the state of the art blah blah. So they can conjure spirits from the deep ( new Tempest thing going on - I know mangled quote from H1V) but the air con has broken.
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 23, 2018 10:07:16 GMT
In the Royal Shakespeare Theatre: Troilus and Cressida directed by Doran, music by Evelyn Glennie, 12th Oct - 17 Nov A Christmas Carol returns from 4th Dec - 20th January So only one main stage show over Christmas unlike the two in rep this year. In the Swan: Tamburlaine directed by Michael Boyd, 16 August - 1 December Given it has the same designer I suspect this may be based on Boyd's 2014 Brooklyn production www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/theater/marlowes-tamburlaine-parts-i-and-ii-in-brooklyn.htmlTimon of Athens directed by Simon Godwin, with Kathryn Hunter as Timon 7th Dec - 22 Feb Tartuffe, directed by Iqbal khan from 7th Sept - 23rd Feb An interesting selection there although I thought that about the Rome season and look how that turned out Also announced today - £10 tickets if you've never booked for the RSC before and can be there on a Friday: www.rsc.org.uk/first-time-fridays
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 23, 2018 11:06:17 GMT
In the continuing RSC project to stage every one of Shakespeare's plays in the First Folio, Timon of Athens is the first to be staged in the Swan Theatre, instead of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Like all the RST productions, Timon of Athens will be recorded for broadcast 'Live From Stratford-upon-Avon'. Maybe, some of the other plays still to be produced in this project will also be in the Swan, e.g. King John, Henry VI 1, 2 and 3?
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 23, 2018 12:16:26 GMT
At first glance this looks like an excellent season! Short run in the mainhouse for Troilus though? They are obvs working through the Marlowe canon, Tamburlaine is the fourth play done in a few years. V promising.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 13:03:54 GMT
I saw A Christmas Carol last week and absolutely loved it, so I'm glad it's returning. It says on the 10th December performance that it will be filmed, so does anyone know if that means it will be released or just filmed for archives? I can't imagine it will be a RSC Live broadcast as it isn't Shakespeare.
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 23, 2018 13:35:25 GMT
If you click on "this performance will be filmed" it appears it will be for cinema broadcast
If so it seems odd for the cinema broadcast performance to be the day before press night!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 14:23:41 GMT
If you click on "this performance will be filmed" it appears it will be for cinema broadcast If so it seems odd for the cinema broadcast performance to be the day before press night! So it does. I just didn't think they did it for non-Shakespeare plays, or have they before? Also it probably doesn't matter so much that it's before press night as it is a returning production.
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Post by jasper on Jan 23, 2018 15:54:57 GMT
I notice on the RSC website the author for Timon Of Athens is a certain William Shakespeare. I thought the latest thinking among those who trouble themselves about such things is that Thomas Middleton wrote a great deal of it. Indeed it is included in his latest magnum opus of his collected works. Since the RSC are including this in their attempt to perform all the plays of Mr Shakespeare does this mean a production of Thomas Moore is to be included in the future? Further what of Edward III which was included in the Oxford complete works of Shakespeare? What about Ironside. (No not the one in the wheelchair the play Edmund Ironside) Or is there a threshold for how much Will had to pen before it gets included? At least it gives a chance to see the misanthropic side of the personality of the millennium.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 23, 2018 17:01:15 GMT
The project is to perform every play in the First Folio.
So, presumably they'll perform every play in it, even if authorship is now disputed, and they won't perform other plays now thought to be by WS if they're not in the First Folio?
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Post by jasper on Jan 23, 2018 17:13:20 GMT
The project is to perform every play in the First Folio. So, presumably they'll perform every play in it, even if authorship is now disputed, and they won't perform other plays now thought to be by WS if they're not in the First Folio? Does this mean no Pericles for us to ponder who wrote it? Are they using the First Folio text or just the list of plays?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 23, 2018 17:24:46 GMT
Does this mean no Pericles for us to ponder who wrote it? Are they using the First Folio text or just the list of plays? No idea. Just saying that, starting in October 2013, they're staging all 36 plays in the First Folio and now about halfway through.
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Post by jasper on Jan 23, 2018 17:30:10 GMT
Does this mean no Pericles for us to ponder who wrote it? Are they using the First Folio text or just the list of plays? No idea. Just saying that, starting in October 2013, they're staging all 36 plays in the First Folio and now about halfway through. The Two Noble Kinsmen is also notable by its absence in the First Folio and the play has disputed authorship. However, it was produced in 2016. Maybe a fondness for John Fletcher from Doran meant its inclusion in the First Folio.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 23, 2018 17:33:02 GMT
The Two Noble Kinsmen is also notable by its absence in the First Folio and the play has disputed authorship. However, it was produced in 2016. Maybe a fondness for John Fletcher from Doran meant its inclusion in the First Folio. No, it wasn't produced as part of this First Folio project. It was one of their other productions.
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 23, 2018 18:09:22 GMT
The project is to perform every play in the First Folio. So, presumably they'll perform every play in it, even if authorship is now disputed, and they won't perform other plays now thought to be by WS if they're not in the First Folio? Does this mean no Pericles for us to ponder who wrote it? Are they using the First Folio text or just the list of plays? I notice that they have stopped their practice of listing the plays in he programmes with the one already produced highlighted, not quite sure why. Maybe because the whole thing is taking longer than first thought. In 2013 Doran was saying six or seven uears well that has obvs gone out the window!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 23, 2018 18:30:49 GMT
Much as I need to see Timon to tick one of the final three off my list, I am not tempted at all to see Kathryn Hunter on stage again.
I find her mannered performing style just too much for my tastes. Shame as I managed to be miss it when it was on at the National (the joys of being ill on the day I was due to attend as far as I recall!)
I suspect Tamburlaine will have a big name in the lead to justify such an extended series of performances. No idea who. At least it won't be Sir Tony.
T&C - all comes down to casting for me. Will have to be interesting to drag me to Stratford after the last one. Doran's pedestrian style will be easier to live with than the Wooster Group's.
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