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Post by zahidf on Nov 2, 2021 12:22:17 GMT
I hope it gets a London run as well: i really liked their Benjamin Button musical
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Post by zahidf on Nov 2, 2021 11:27:42 GMT
Full line up announced Nov 23rd
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Post by zahidf on Nov 2, 2021 10:13:17 GMT
Seems like the Old Vic took a while to cancel given they were told of their staff concerns last year. Considering the Spacey fiasco, they need to to do better to listen to staff concerns. You don't think there's a difference between sexual predation and taking the piss out of contemporary sanctimony? Was that what Gilliam was doing? i thought he was having a rant against trans people and the metoo movement in a public forum because he cant understand and refuses to do so. Interesting how apparently the Indie cant be trusted because of it being leftwing newsprint, whereas a Python fanpage is completely unbiased. FWIW, i think if the staff felt that strongly against him working at the Old vic, they shouldnt have hired him in the first place. The whole thing has been a complete fiasco
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Post by zahidf on Nov 1, 2021 17:58:43 GMT
Seems like the Old Vic took a while to cancel given they were told of their staff concerns last year. Considering the Spacey fiasco, they need to to do better to listen to staff concerns.
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Post by zahidf on Nov 1, 2021 9:37:39 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Oct 30, 2021 19:08:58 GMT
Good article!
I got my booster today.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 30, 2021 15:11:12 GMT
Do we actually know it was cancelled because of TG? Baz did suggest that was the reason, but that article was from January 2020, so I don't think The Old Vic have suddenly taken exception to that now. If it is because of Terry Gilliam, I imagine they've had a more recent direct dispute. TG has been openly supporting Dave Chapelle on Twitter over the trans stuff he's said. Maybe that's an issue
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Post by zahidf on Oct 30, 2021 11:02:34 GMT
Rather unfair on Leah Hausman. In the future, either nobody will give interviews or, if they do, they'll be like the "no comment" police interviews we see on TV. Well... maybe they shouldn't give interviews if they come out with racist/sexist/homophobic rubbish. It's not like the stuff he said was on the fence at all.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 28, 2021 7:32:35 GMT
Its probably more that people are reluctant to book for a show which was niche anyway due to the length of gap between the parts 2 and 3. It would have struggled anyway without Covid, but may have gone into Stratford first to get more of a buzz
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Post by zahidf on Oct 27, 2021 7:00:31 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Oct 26, 2021 16:18:55 GMT
Cases going down by themselves third day in a row.
Case for plan B melts away
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Post by zahidf on Oct 25, 2021 9:28:30 GMT
SAGE models have everything going down in terms of deaths/hosptilisations going forwards. I dont see the case for ANY restrictions going forwards.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 24, 2021 22:10:47 GMT
This was great tonight! Lots of fun
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Post by zahidf on Oct 24, 2021 19:23:10 GMT
What's the running time for this please? Per today's 'Your Visit to Hampstead Theatre' email.
The show will start at 7.30pm and is 1 hour 20 minutes long, without an interval.
Cool thanks! I'm going in a couple of weeks
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Post by zahidf on Oct 24, 2021 16:14:20 GMT
What's the running time for this please?
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Post by zahidf on Oct 21, 2021 19:38:13 GMT
It may be mainly the unvaccinated who are suffering but it's not only them. With my current heart condition I am at an extremely high risk of dying if I catch this, even being double-vaccinated. Until I can get this fixed I don't have the reserve strength to survive any additional load. I'm none too happy with the general attitude in Britain at the moment that with vaccinations available the only people who will die are the ones who kind of deserve it. And bear in mind that until I was diagnosed I thought I was reasonably healthy (I have other health issues but none that increase my Covid19 risk), so many of you out there thinking "I have nothing to worry about" may be very wrong. On top of that, the reason I'm still waiting for treatment is because the hospitals are so busy with Covid-19 cases. What I have is easy to fix but I need to get into a hospital for a day, so all the people who are happy for cases to rise instead of taking simple precautions to fight this are putting me at risk twice over: from the much greater chance of exposure to someone infected and from the greater time I'm vulnerable because I can't get treatment. So I'm really rather disgusted with a government that seems to want to wait and see what happens, given that the last three times they tried that approach it ended up as a disaster. It speaks volumes about the utter incompetence of this government that they expect 100K cases per day during the winter and think the best course of action is to warn people how bad it's going to be instead of, say, taking any action at all to make it less bad. I feel for you but the only thing which will materially get things down are severe restrictions for a medium/long period of time.a few more people wearing masks won't do it I'm afraid. If you want to make the case for protecting vulnerable people by putting everyone else under long standing severe restrictions, go for it. Short, mild restrictions won't do anything to help them. Telling clinically vulnerable people "it's not safe for you to be on a bus with unmasked people, but if they'd only all put masks on you'd be fine" is just wrong. I hope you can get the booster jab soon and your heart issues sorted out. It doesn't sound like a great situation
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Post by zahidf on Oct 21, 2021 15:05:34 GMT
We have an option to wear masks, if the majority are *choosing* not to, how can using the weight of the law by issuing a mandate be seen as being in the public good? I find the whining about people not wearing masks tiresome tbh. The same way that mandating people not smoking in enclosed public spaces is for the public good. The same way that speed restrictions are for the public good. Before those things were mandated, people also *chose* not to give a sh*t if smoking in a restaurant or a plane or an office would make other people around them sick (not to mention the smell) or if driving as fast as they*chose* to would mean an increased risk to running over someone in a residential area or causing an accident, that doesn't mean that what they were doing was for the public good. I find the whining about wearing a small piece of fabric over ones nose and mouth to lessen the likelihood of unknowingly infecting other people or, if we are to go with the entirely selfish motivation, to lessen the likelihood that we get locked down again incredibly tiresome, tbh. What you're describing is entirely different to the issue of wearing masks for extended periods though. People dont HAVE to smoke indoors. You can drive up to a certain speed. Those two are very different things to expect people to wear masks for hours on end ( i especially find it weird to expect kids to wear them) Each to their own, but the majority of the population are choosing not to wear them. Need to address that rather than call them selfish e.t.c.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 21, 2021 11:10:33 GMT
We have an option to wear masks, if the majority are *choosing* not to, how can using the weight of the law by issuing a mandate be seen as being in the public good? I find the whining about people not wearing masks tiresome tbh.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 21, 2021 11:02:38 GMT
Facemasks are performative to an extent: Wales and Scotland have stricter rules and their figures aren't massively better than England's rates
On jabs, its definitely a IT/structural issue rather than a vaccine hesitancy thing. Most people seem up for getting a booster
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Post by zahidf on Oct 20, 2021 14:15:51 GMT
The cases are WELL below the SAGE predictions on the *lower* end (2k hospitalizations & 100k cases per day), not the central case (4.5k & 200k) or upper end (7k & 300k). I dont see why people are acting like things are a disaster Because the trend is becoming apparent. And the booster programme is going rather badly which is going to add a whole load of preventable deaths. We literally saw it go up and down over the last month. I'm not convinced we get anywhere close to SAGE modelling
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Post by zahidf on Oct 20, 2021 13:01:05 GMT
The cases are WELL below the SAGE predictions on the *lower* end (2k hospitalizations & 100k cases per day), not the central case (4.5k & 200k) or upper end (7k & 300k). I dont see why people are acting like things are a disaster
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Post by zahidf on Oct 20, 2021 9:48:58 GMT
The biggest risk if there a vaccine busting variant emerges then I am not sure there will be a way to control it. Well we already know the way to control it, or rather the way our incompetent Goverment chooses to control it - wait until infections are too high so the decision is out of their hands, have a lockdown too late, put out confusing messaging about what is allowed and then wonder why things are getting worse. And yes. This time, if we need restrictions then they must be enforced, no ifs, no buts. Nobody in the supermarket without a mask. Vaccine passports, the works. I am sick of the so called rights of the anti vaxxers outweighing the safety of millions. Enough. Wales and Scotland have equally as bad case growth as England , and they have masks and vax passports.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 20, 2021 9:47:42 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase There's no such thing as "just" when it comes to exponential growth. 10% increase per week is 50% per month or 144 times as many (14400%) per year. Don't take my word for it. Work it out.
And yes, I know there are people reading this who are thinking "Ridiculous; it can't possibly get that bad", but that's the problem. Mathematically it can get that bad, and in fact mathematically it must. Exponential growth doesn't stop by itself. The only choice we have is to take action to stop it or to let it be stopped by running out of people. There's no magic that will come along and fix things for us.
Well it wont. At the moment its hitting mainly the unvaccinated. It well then start going down once theyve been infected and the virus runs out of people to infect. Its not exponential until infinity. Its basically been going up and down the last 2 months. this is just the up phase
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Post by zahidf on Oct 19, 2021 17:34:04 GMT
Deaths are sad but the rate is still just a 10% week on week increase and looks like it will be going down more when more boosters are done. It's the tail end of the pandemic. Winter won't be great but as long as you get a booster and flu shot, should fingers crossed be ok
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Post by zahidf on Oct 19, 2021 12:57:23 GMT
The Henry's were always being trailed as coming back next year (but not the bit they did "in rehearsal"). What is odd, and I suppose it may still happen, is that Richard III is not being staged with the Henry VI plays - it makes artistic sense and it boosts attendance at the Henry's which don't sell well as stand-alone plays. I've seen the Henry VI plays four times but never in isolation to Richard III. Also the very fact they have left Richard III till right to the end of the complete cycle with Henry VI suggests that they had it in mind. Who is playing Richard in the Henry VI plays ? Tennant seems the obvious one to play Richard 3rd. Maybe waiting for his availability.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 18, 2021 16:21:13 GMT
There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures If booster jabs don’t speed up the evidence from Israel suggest they might well get close. That's not what the evidence from Israel says. Things may get worse than they are now but we won't be getting 35,000 people in the hospital because of covid.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 18, 2021 15:49:28 GMT
And with the pace of the booster and school rollouts it’s easily foreseeable that deaths and hospitalisations by Christmas will be scarely close to last year. There is zero evidence that deaths or hosptilisations will be close to last year's figures
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Post by zahidf on Oct 14, 2021 10:40:12 GMT
8th Decebemer to 8th January. Show centres around Daisy
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Post by zahidf on Oct 14, 2021 10:00:08 GMT
Belfast and Phantom of the Open were ace yesterday
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Post by zahidf on Oct 12, 2021 23:36:39 GMT
I saw all my friends hate me the next day at the Odeon. Was fun!
I've had a blast this LFF so far. Really loved boiling point and encounter at the Prince Charles, have phantom of the open and Belfast tomorrow to look forward to.
I really liked the feast as well, Welsh Language horror, and Hinterland
I didn't much enjoy true things, decent central performance but the story wasn't that interesting.
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