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Post by lynette on May 10, 2021 21:06:00 GMT
I am so saddened by the previous posts. How can you learn anything if you don't read the whole text? Back in my day, medieval times of course, we were not told which ‘quotes’ to learn or what ideas to learn. Even when I was teaching the kids read the whole text, even the opaque bits. How i enjoyed explaining the opening scenes of R&J with its rude insults! I’ve since seen the diluting of the texts, particularly Shakespeare. V sad. I find that kids respond to a challenge and know when they are short changed. Less leads to less and less...
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Post by lynette on May 10, 2021 17:52:51 GMT
Lasted ten minutes I’m afraid. Narration has to reveal and not describe.
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 19:55:23 GMT
Yes this is terrible and it seems communities that are vaccine shy. Need a big vaccine drive - we must drive this on - on telly etc for the young people to get jabbed. Young people aren't getting offered it yet. It's not the young people's fault. Tired of this narrative being pushed. Unless you are at risk the vaccines are still for 40+ lot at the moment. I know no one my age who would turn it down, but we aren't being offered it. I am thinking ahead - you will soon be offered it. I’m thinking we need to keep the momentum as it were.
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 19:52:23 GMT
He is saying that Osborne broke through with new theatre..well he did. Of course we can now look back on Rattigan, Noel Coward and see more than perhaps their contemporaries did and some say that Osborne lead to Eastenders and not much else. If Hare thinks he has made a major contribution, well he isn’t wrong. But he isn’t that crass. What he wants is that theatre becomes what we all talk about rather than Line of Duty...but v hard to make that happen. In a funny sort of way, the televising of plays which has been happening during Covid time might help make people think a night at the theatre would be interesting. Theatre going is a bug though, one you need to be exposed to early on... I meant the bit where he says he can't think of playwrights under 50 who can fill theatres. He sounds embittered. Has he not heard of Phoebe Waller-Bridge? Lucy Prebble? Mike Bartlett? James Graham? Oh yes, Hare does seem a little out of touch. 😂
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 18:39:23 GMT
It's been underreported due to the elections (hmm, handy, that!) but the Indian variant is on the rise here in the North of England, lots of clusters including in schools. Yes this is terrible and it seems communities that are vaccine shy. Need a big vaccine drive - we must drive this on - on telly etc for the young people to get jabbed.
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Post by lynette on May 8, 2021 18:35:49 GMT
He is saying that Osborne broke through with new theatre..well he did. Of course we can now look back on Rattigan, Noel Coward and see more than perhaps their contemporaries did and some say that Osborne lead to Eastenders and not much else. If Hare thinks he has made a major contribution, well he isn’t wrong. But he isn’t that crass. What he wants is that theatre becomes what we all talk about rather than Line of Duty...but v hard to make that happen. In a funny sort of way, the televising of plays which has been happening during Covid time might help make people think a night at the theatre would be interesting. Theatre going is a bug though, one you need to be exposed to early on...
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Post by lynette on May 6, 2021 17:06:27 GMT
I’m way out on a limb here but perhaps the casting of Mamillius was also dependent on the covid restrictions. Having a little child play the part was possibly not practical under the circumstances. As for colour, I just never want to go down the road of “oh, he is a little bit black, maybe Mediterranean, or perhaps a throw back to his grannie...” This is quite terrible imo. I don't want to have to think about it. The acting is all.
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Post by lynette on May 6, 2021 16:53:37 GMT
So how dusty and spiderwebby was it?
(I'm sure there must be some people who have gone back to work to discover that someone didn't empty the fridge and now they need a crowbar and a flamethrower.)
Very! somebody left some fresh soup in the fridge - I'm staying well away. Might have an other vaccine there then 😂
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Post by lynette on May 3, 2021 18:05:51 GMT
We haven't had results from all the test events. Hoping for the best -just watching the snooker crowd greeting the event and the players is emotional.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:20:45 GMT
Fantastic programme.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:10:24 GMT
Hi guys, please don’t just post stuff from other platforms. We can find other platforms if we want to. People come to the Board for the unique take of theatregoers and for our own opinions.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:08:24 GMT
That’s life, eh? Possibility of new series.
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Post by lynette on May 2, 2021 21:07:01 GMT
Might be speaking out of turn but phoning might get appointments earlier and nearer. Find the number of nearest centre and if not right place then possibly will be directed to correct number. A few actual calls might get result. Internet isn’t always best place to arrange things.
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Post by lynette on May 1, 2021 13:56:10 GMT
It may not be entirely good news because if it bounces back with a vengeance in a few years there'll be some young children with no natural resistance to it, but it turns out that the sorts of steps we've been using to fight SARS-CoV-2 are extremely effective against flu. Deaths in the US this winter have been only 2% of the number two years ago.
You’re right, The Matthew. Not only flu ( we do have a jab for us old uns and for young uns who ask for it I think) but other stuff. When finally we are able to mingle I fear that kids who have not had their usual jabs for whatever reasons, health based or idiotic parents, will suffer.
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Post by lynette on May 1, 2021 13:52:24 GMT
My understanding is that when someone is shot by a police person in UK there is an enquiry albeit within the service. Everything in Lof D happens in super quick time.
By the way, has everyone been watching the bent coppers three parter on BBC, even more jaw dropping than LofD. Real times, real crimes, real bent coppers. Horrifying.
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Post by lynette on Apr 28, 2021 12:38:13 GMT
Maybe depressing but I do not see how a pandemic of this nature can be ‘over’ overnight. We shall need careful management of crowds, masks perhaps voluntary and jabs ad infinitum. Not to mention the scientific monitoring of new variants, effective treatments and so on. Just as we do for other contagious diseases. All the time. And of course, do not forget the affect on our mental health. We have, as a nation, as a planet, had a nasty shock. This will take a long time to process. Nowadays we like everything instant. I”m as impatient as the next person, but this is a slow burner. It feeds into the worst fears of mankind and I expect will turn up for many years in our arts and cultural development., though as with other shocks, we might like to bury it for a while.
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Post by lynette on Apr 26, 2021 15:28:20 GMT
Yes, a strange combo of a staged performance filmed and a performance filmed for tv.
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Post by lynette on Apr 25, 2021 22:09:23 GMT
I think we will be masking up regularly in the winter, as they do in say Japan where they mask up if they think they have a cold because they come into close proximity of eachother in for example the commuter trains.
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Post by lynette on Apr 25, 2021 22:07:05 GMT
Agreed, Carmichael being set up as a baddie so probably isn’t. I bet she ends up the big boss! I enjoyed the examination of Davidson, it was very well written. What gets me is the speed at which the police get all the evidence sorted out and the ‘script ‘ of the examination rehearsed. Not real time, surely? Quite liked the grey sweatshirts as well.
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Post by lynette on Apr 25, 2021 22:02:06 GMT
Did we watch The Winter’s tale then? Spoilers: why didn't Leontes and Paulina look older after 16 years? Why did Autolycus shout? Apart from that not bad. I won’t dwell further.
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Post by lynette on Apr 24, 2021 14:18:57 GMT
A very long time ago, in The Express newspaper ( don't look at me, it was my parents’ choice ) there was a brilliant cartoon, The Gambols. Mrs G was like Mrs Everywoman, stylish but slightly dafter. They were going on a cruise and she was wondering whether or not to take sea sickness tablets. In the end she did. On the boat, you see them looking over the rail at a turbulent ocean, very happy and jolly though the boat is blowing about as if in a storm. She says, ‘ well, I feel fine, I needn’t have taken those sea sickness tablets after all’.
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Post by lynette on Apr 24, 2021 13:32:19 GMT
A generous couple have paid for the outdoor theatre, or made substantial contribution, not sure which. Very visible, tangible sort of thing.br] They’re building an entirely new outdoor theatre and only doing one production in it (Comedy of Errors). That is quite a squandering of resources. I think the kind of flat pack they can bring out every summer and possibly transport to other locations for a season. Maybe. 😳
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Post by lynette on Apr 23, 2021 16:29:00 GMT
A generous couple have paid for the outdoor theatre, or made substantial contribution, not sure which. Very visible, tangible sort of thing. I’m not a buildings person tbh; I’m a person person. By that I mean invest in individuals and groups which do stuff, make stuff, show stuff. Other than to provide work for scaffolders I’m not sure why a theatre is necessary in the garden beside the two theatres and a few feet from the third they already have. You still need the toilets, the bar, the shepherding staff, so I’m wondering why not open the big theatre for fewer people? My instinct would be to rip out the seats and go full round in the big theatre ( or nearly round) and open out the foyers etc as much as possible. But Jan you can’t compare Jermyn St ( well, you can and I do) because JS doesn’t have the hundreds of staff to deal with so it is a more flexible, light on the feet set up. RSC is like a huge tanker, stuck in the Suez Canal...to be continued
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Post by lynette on Apr 23, 2021 16:11:14 GMT
D/E 3
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Post by lynette on Apr 20, 2021 20:45:35 GMT
I’m appreciating the links to real cases because it makes you realise how hard it was for the people at the time to see what was happening at the time. Hindsight is of course a wonderful thing but as the corruption came out and the fumblings of the police there was a sense of shock, though we know some people did ‘know’ what was going on.
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Post by lynette on Apr 19, 2021 20:21:08 GMT
I didnt hear what NW said. I was on about Huw Edwards who was commentating. Mind you , indistinguishable, eh? 😂
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Post by lynette on Apr 19, 2021 18:44:50 GMT
5 I would refuse if had a choice. But would eat if necessary. I, snails i would gag at. Strange isn’t it?
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Post by lynette on Apr 19, 2021 18:42:10 GMT
Interesting, you’re the first person I’ve heard of having side effects from Pfizer. Did you have any from the first jab? I was also destroyed by the second Pfizer jab. After the first one I just felt achy the following day with a very sore arm which I usually don't get, and made it to about 4:00pm before working from bed. After the second one (which I had on a Thursday morning) I felt completely fine until mid afternoon the next day and then was basically wiped out for the weekend. I actually think it affected me for about a week overall but at a low level. Obviously I'm not complaining and I would never not have got it even if the side effects were 100x worse. But I would recommend getting the second Pfizer jab closer to a weekend/days off work etc. Most people I know had a sore arm to varying degrees and most have had some tiredness after the second. But my colleagues and I are at the younger end of the spectrum of those who have been vaccinated as we all work in a hospital and apparently younger people are more likely to get side effects. I was pfizered - tired after first jab, nothing else, but aching arm after second jab, much more than any previous jabs and also v tired for a couple of days.
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Post by lynette on Apr 19, 2021 18:39:55 GMT
Was so weird. Huw Edwards saying that ~Meghan, Duchess etc wasn’t there because not cleared to come. She is pregnant ffs and late on so can’t or shouldn’t fly. Also he was talking about her as if she couldn’t hear him while saying that she is probably watching. Could he not for once have said something along the lines that we are sure she would have wanted to be here and we are sorry she can’t be but appreciate the reason and look forward to a happier event...imo he should have shut up for most of the time and allowed us to experience the silence and the atmosphere. He wittered on and on. I turned off the sound for a while but thank goodness he shut up for inside the church. The filming, the camera angles etc were pretty good, the filming of the piper was worthy of an Oscar, but they cant get the commentary right at these events, can they?
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Post by lynette on Apr 19, 2021 18:30:53 GMT
The surveillance was stopped as soon as that wonderful bag Anna Maxwell Martin appeared - what a performance, next stop pantomime villain Palladium, appeared..she had it ordered from the big boss who is obviously crooked as hell.
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