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Post by lynette on Mar 17, 2021 15:36:50 GMT
This will be good. Someone else did it a while ago - Stephen Dillane was it, someone will remember. It was brilliant. Will def tempt me into a theatre.
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Post by lynette on Mar 14, 2021 21:31:22 GMT
The thing I’m most dreading when this is all over is the common cold I plan to continue (or resume) wearing a mask during future flu and cold seasons. Now that we're used to seeing them, doing so in the future shouldn't draw stares. This will be interesting. Will we become more like Japan? Personally I think makes will be unusual by the end of say, ‘22.
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Post by lynette on Mar 14, 2021 21:21:40 GMT
Please do not share those images in public. For the sake of the forum, it is important to be careful about such matters. Thank you, oxfordsimon. I expect you can find images on other platforms.but we need to be careful here.
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Post by lynette on Mar 6, 2021 18:28:14 GMT
Bet some daft coves have a go at shoplifting for the hell of it. But sounds like the way forward to me. Follows on from just the tap of a card and all the stored details we have on our computers. Will scare the conspiracists no doubt.
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Post by lynette on Mar 6, 2021 18:25:20 GMT
I Care A Lot. Rosamund Pike plays a grifter running a con where she finds wealthy old folk with no family and applies to be their legal guardian on the basis that they’re incapable of looking after themselves. Then she slams them in a care home and takes control of their finances. Things go wrong when she picks the wrong little old lady to con! streaming now on Prime. Slick and very enjoyable. I’ve been reliably informed that this can’t happen in UK, different rules for old people’s care, but o my was it scary, eh?
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Post by lynette on Feb 27, 2021 13:22:02 GMT
I am horrified at the racial persecution of this woman. Obviously we don't know the half of it. But it wasn’t most people, most of us who had seen him grow up and even people who considered him very special, ‘our boy’ for whom no woman would be good enough. No, most people were either quite jolly about it or indifferent. I think the press should have had a good look at themselves, been more proactively ‘for’ her. They have done themselves out of a lifetime of stories and crowd pleasing photographs.
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Post by lynette on Feb 27, 2021 13:17:17 GMT
It's hugely frustrating to hear of people here in Germany refusing the AstraZeneca vaccine. I would have it straight away but because I'm in the lowest priority group there is no way for me to get vaccinated at this point. If at least they would manage to move to whoever is next in line swiftly if one person refuses to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca. But it all seems to be taking ages. Honestly Steffi, I would be having kittens.. as we say.. I have a friend in Paris, my age, thankfully jabbed now but she described the laborious system of booking, more or less out of reach of poorer people with no internet/laptops etc In the end she was offered jab by ethnic cultural/religious organisation which were doing vaccinations. Weird but at least she is done.
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Post by lynette on Feb 27, 2021 13:11:43 GMT
My mother finally let me book her jab yesterday after 2 weeks of refusing. Today whilst on a video call with my boss she comes in waving the papers which had a picture of the queen on it and something about get jabbed for the benefit of others and jabbering on about thank goodness she'd booked it yesterday and it became clear that I clearly need to get the queen to call my mother when she needs to do something. I was sceptical about how much influence the Queen actually has but there you go, one less person to worry about and many more protected.
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Post by lynette on Feb 27, 2021 13:10:19 GMT
Am confused, Kevin, as to why William would not have support when he becomes king. He has a wife and kids and quite pleasant relatives. Chances are Camilla will be alive. No king or Queen has older sibling alive, that’s the nature of the job.
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Post by lynette on Feb 25, 2021 16:48:53 GMT
Just been looking at pictures of totally empty huge vaccination centres in Germany i think it was . So loads of unused vaccines. Now, what will happen? Will the continent have to cope with another covid spike and will the UK escape that? Only time will tell.
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Post by lynette on Feb 24, 2021 17:18:16 GMT
Let’s hope some imagination is involved. What the kids need is sport, not just football though football works for many, but stuff like skate boarding and swimming and rock climbing so let’s get the clubs which do this involved. And music- brilliant opportunity for kids to learn, play, create bands etc, all levels and art, big projects, personal projects with tuition, wow the possibilities are endless. If during the summer when we do, contrary to general perception, get sunshine, these kids, our kids, are indoors looking at the whiteboard, then heaven help us.
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Post by lynette on Feb 23, 2021 20:47:45 GMT
I read somewhere that Burbage was down the pub one night boasting he could play anything that Shakespeare wrote for him. So Shakespeare wrote Othello. I am of the unpopular opinion that Shakespeare saw or read with women who acted his female characters , maybe in private houses and he wrote for women not yet born but who would, he knew, eventually act professionally - for them he wrote Cleopatra.
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Post by lynette on Feb 22, 2021 14:32:22 GMT
When can I get my hair done? That must come before anything else. 🤪
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Post by lynette on Feb 22, 2021 14:28:38 GMT
Feeling depressed reading all the rumours/leaks about lockdown ending & knowing I'm not going to be vaccinated still for months & will be too scared to do anything before being vaccinated. Last night I had a splitting headache & was so scared in case it was covid that I had a panic attack at 1.30am. It is quite ok to feel anxious about post lockdown. Personally i won’t break going near anyone I haven't been near over the last year. Fortunately we can rely on the British summer to allow time outside slowly adjusting. As for the vaccination, looks like we will be getting through fast. I know people in early 40s being called now. Yep, that young! Depends where you live I think. So if a goodly number are vaccinated and quite a few with the double dose, you can be reassured Dawnstar and make plans to go out and about later in the summer.
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Post by lynette on Feb 21, 2021 16:00:00 GMT
Agreed risk management. But we do rely on vaccination for other diseases, flu, measles, polio and even smallpox which is totally suppressed by vaccination in the past. So being in an audience of mainly vaccinated people is ok for vaccinated people. They protect the unvaccinated of course. But unvaccinated can catch whatever it is easily enough. I remember a mum i knew agonising over her new baby as she hadn’t had her older child vaccinated. And measles etc is still a very dangerous disease. So yes, risk management as long as we all know our personal risk and can rely on our fellow theatre goers knowing theirs.
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Post by lynette on Feb 20, 2021 18:56:06 GMT
Oh look, we’re in fantasy land again for the magical COVID test. For example, let's say on Day 1, you were exposed to COVID-19 but didn't realize it. You happen to get tested the next day, but you don't have enough viral load in your system for it to register. Then, anytime between Day 3 and Day 5, you enter the incubation phase. Although you're not showing any symptoms, you're still contagious, you can transmit the virus 24 to 72 hours before you experience any symptoms. A negative test at the door is not a 100% your safe badge to be around 500 people, inside for over 2 hours. At some point it is simply going to have to do. If we waited for 100% we wouldn't get anything open for years. By the end of this year, earlier even, humans will need, actually they will demand social contact, it is as simple as that I myself will remain cautious, but then again I never went to nightclubs anyway. As soon as theatres are back open, I'll be there though. Forgetting vaccination?
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Post by lynette on Feb 19, 2021 22:22:15 GMT
And how will people react when one or more of the ‘party’ isn’t allowed in. A recipe for trouble. Better to rely on what little common sense remains in society and race through the vaccine programme.
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Post by lynette on Feb 19, 2021 22:19:47 GMT
I've recently unearthed my old Minidisc equipment and a stack of old MDs so now I'm wondering whether to get back into it or not. It's a lovely format, but nobody's manufactured any recorders since the mid 2000s and the precision required means they're not going to restart so I'm considering building up a stock of spare kit from eBay for when things break down. Unfortunately I'm not the only one still interested and high-end MD decks are selling for thousands. I don't love it that much. You can wait thirty years and take it into ‘The Repair Shop’ to be refurbed...
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Post by lynette on Feb 19, 2021 16:17:02 GMT
Delayed again, current run cancelled, new dates to be announced. Email says it will stay at the Pinter, and David Tennant, Fenella Woolgar and Elliot Levey remain in the production. Gonna be patient.....
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Post by lynette on Feb 19, 2021 16:13:32 GMT
Originaltheatreonline.com Just watched the Barnes monologues. A tenner each. The Adrian Scarborough is well worth it both as a bit of a masterclass and because the BBC banned it when Barnes wrote it. The other three are also poignant and interesting. £30 for the four. Lasts 20 mins each one.
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Post by lynette on Feb 14, 2021 23:44:36 GMT
I can’t remember SRB as RIII. But saw the other two, Jan. Meh. You didn’t miss much.
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Post by lynette on Feb 12, 2021 14:55:51 GMT
Wow, alece10 , that ice on the bedroom window sounds awful to me. You are right - we do take so many things for granted these days. My mum often used to tell me how she grew up in a house with a carpet over a dirt floor, no actual flooring, and a toilet in the back yard. However, given that the standards have somewhat improved over time, considering how much I pay for rent, and also given that I spend approximately nine hours of the day sitting in front of my laptop for work, I admittedly do expect to have the heating working properly and am annoyed when it doesn't. Not that what I expect makes a difference, clearly... Fingers crossed it gets fixed soon, though. (I'm sorry if I come off as really grumpy, I'm not - I just really dislike the cold.) Just seen this Forrest so forgive me for butting in - if there is no sign of your heating being repaired I suggest you get a really good but quite cheap heater from John Lewis, it is about £20 and very efficient, will keep you enviably cosy. Quick delivery. It is small and light so can be put away when you don't need it. I suppose it might increase your electricity bill but it isn’t funny getting cold so may be worth it ( maybe you share the bill with your flat mates anyway..)
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Post by lynette on Feb 12, 2021 14:46:45 GMT
It's a surprisingly hard play to do well. In 30 years of theatre-going I've only seen one outstanding one (the Doran, Sher, Walters one at the RSC) and one very good one (Goold, Stewart, Fleetwood). Some usually reliable names have come a cropper (Noble, Jacobi; Eyre, Howard; Caird, SRB; Tobacco Factory). Whereas I've loved 9 of the 10 Lears and 14 of the 17 Hamlets I've seen. Of actors I like I'd be keen to see Michael Sheen do it. I agree, for some reason or other, very hard to get right. Anyone else see the Paul Scofield disaster at the RSC back in the day? The one where the swords were too heavy for the actors to lift up? 😂 it was very red I remember. One I did like was the Slinger RSC (director?) where they made chilling use of children. We are no longer frightened of witches, but we are scared of malignant children. I would actually quite like another SRB, a kind of avuncular Macbeth having one last shot at power with a wife who has stood by while he missed his chances early on and is determined to make it this time... No, please not Michael Sheen as he would probably set his M in a care home or NHS pandemic ward. in case anyone has missed an earlier post on Macbeths I have seen, you still can’t beat the production in German I saw where Macbeth practised his stabbing technique by stabbing a chicken, an obviously rubber chicken. Fab u lus.
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Post by lynette on Feb 11, 2021 15:28:37 GMT
The Jermyn St reading of She Stoops was very good. It showed how much clearer the language is and the plotting so much Packer and funnier than say Love in a Wood. Great little play.
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Post by lynette on Feb 11, 2021 15:26:53 GMT
Thank you theatreian for posting the Elton john vid as I had missed it. Lovely. I simply do not understand the anti vaxxers. Imo vaccination is the miracle of modern medicine. But there you go, takes all sorts.
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Post by lynette on Feb 9, 2021 14:59:54 GMT
I'm not realistically expecting to be inside a theatre until panto season. Hopefully a lot of distanced outdoor events will pop up over the summer though. I am aiming to move my production of The Cherry Orchard to July in a garden somewhere... Love the assumption that if the over 50s are all ‘done’ then theatre can get underway again. Of course!
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Post by lynette on Feb 8, 2021 14:21:18 GMT
So the Dream isn’t the play then? Must admit I am a little confused.
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Post by lynette on Feb 7, 2021 12:06:30 GMT
Great stuff. Can’t imagine what shenanigans they will go for: diversity, cross gender casting, proper Scottish, no Scottish? Yummy prospect.
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Post by lynette on Feb 7, 2021 12:03:43 GMT
School for Scandal is fabulous. The later She Stoops is superb. What was the one the Donmar did most recently, a really fabulous production, not stuffed with stars and with a ‘diverse’ casting? Saw it twice ( memory gone lockdown ish..) Anyway, I agree the language is dense and the jokes sometimes too of the moment for us, unlike Shakespeare which can be acted ‘funny’. But if paced right and if the actors know what is going on, these plays do mark a particularly interesting time in politics and in theatre history and they are often, really funny, really on the ball with human vanity.
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Post by lynette on Feb 6, 2021 19:05:59 GMT
They are doing She Stoops to Conquer on Wednesday. Easier to follow and more well known. Excellent. Do you have more details about this? Seems to be for ‘Friends’ only. Sorry. But might be worth joining with future offerings...
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