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Post by lynette on Feb 5, 2021 15:27:09 GMT
They are doing She Stoops to Conquer on Wednesday. Easier to follow and more well known.
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Post by lynette on Feb 2, 2021 20:10:50 GMT
Yes there is so much bad news , it is great to see the vaccination programme going so well and ahead of most other countries. This is one thing the government do seem to have got right. Yes the vaccine roll out is nothing short of remarkable and it has been a tremendous success story, it has been such a success for no other reason than it has been organised and delivered by our NHS. I was one of the number at the weekend to receive the vaccine. It was a totally efficient, friendly and easy experience. So if anyone on the Board is hesitating, I would urge you to go when you are invited. Believe me I’ve had plenty jabbed into me in my time and the only long term effect is probably a dislike of Sondheim. Hate me.
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Post by lynette on Jan 31, 2021 17:23:01 GMT
Lately I have been neglecting myself and my flat. For the past couple of weeks I've tidied one room, then the following week added another to tidy whilst going over the one I had already cleaned as well. Woke up early this morning, and just got cracking, and now added two more rooms all done and thoroughly cleaned. Feeling a bit proud of myself. My aim is once I've done them all, to do one area each weekday, so come Saturday all I have to do is go round with the duster and vacuum cleaner, and I can actually enjoy my weekends guilt-free. Bravo. First lock down I went thru all the cupboards, cleaned out drawers.. this time not so much but I did tidy the cupboard with the cleaning products in it.
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Post by lynette on Jan 29, 2021 21:44:08 GMT
Thank you for these wonderful memories guys. You know, I have not seen a really good R&J; maybe the David Tennant one back in the dark ages..
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Post by lynette on Jan 28, 2021 13:29:34 GMT
Can't remember when I last posted on here but I've been basically stuck in Stoke since last March, though I managed to escape to Dorset in early Sept. I've also acquired a dog which is helping massively! Great to have you back. But I’m unsure as to how being in Stoke stopped you posting. Mind you, I have been there......😂 Welcome also to your dog. We need a dog/cat/pet thread, feel free to start one.
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Post by lynette on Jan 28, 2021 0:27:27 GMT
Anyone else watch this? Bravura performance. A lot of explanation in the script, historical stuff. I wanted to get a pencil out and edit. But a worthy effort and a bit like proper theatre.
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Post by lynette on Jan 27, 2021 21:40:09 GMT
Why did he not want an audience? Was he a terrible director? (I'm assuming he was a director. I've never heard of him.) Peter Gill - director (not much good) and playwright (no information). Somehow he must have had friends in high places because they let him run it for 10 years doing whatever he wanted, workshopping stuff that never appeared. In the end I seem to recall they fired him and he wasn't happy. He still gets freelance work actually, he did something at the Donmar relatively recently, or they did one of his plays (or both). There were a couple of directors from his era who also always seemed to get work surprisingly easily, Mike Alfreds, Nancy Meckler, they would crop up with second rate stuff at the RSC, NT. Almeida, Donmar. Peter Gill did a truly awful Romeo & Juliet for the RSC once, embarrasingly bad, as did Nancy Mecler (the sticks one, Lynette). I think Michael Boyd was just doing a favour for his old mates. I hear you, Jan. o the pain of those sticks.
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Post by lynette on Jan 27, 2021 16:51:09 GMT
On Sunday at 7pm from. Jermyn St, a reading but looks good cast and Jermyn St have been very competent in getting stuff out to us. I think on YouTube
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Post by lynette on Jan 25, 2021 16:26:52 GMT
Not the most comfortable but never really had an issue in either the Globe or Wanamaker and never buy a cushion. Have my preferred seats but apart from the gods in the Wanamaker would sit in most places with sight lines more of an issue than comfort. I am of slight build and think nothing of sitting on an unpadded racing bike saddle for hours on end which could explain it. Shurrup Neil. One day in the future when you are 101 and just home from a bike ride of ninety miles or so, you will remember my complaints about the seating at the Wanamaker and smile...
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Post by lynette on Jan 25, 2021 16:24:53 GMT
Interesting. So what happened to the link up with Marquee? Is Broadway free to view or pay on demand? I haven't used it before. Reading the posts on the theatres at Stratford above, I heartily agree that The Bridge is in fact what should have been attained. That Dream there was great stuff and not possible at the RST or Swan. And Maggie Smith’s tour de force with the moving stage...not really an option in Stratford as the movement was so subtle. So we really must think of what the theatre is going to be in the future and take a chance. I say ‘we’ I mean impresarios and classical producers.
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Post by lynette on Jan 24, 2021 17:41:48 GMT
I can see walk in vaccine centres in the future when we shall be needing the covid vaccine and the usual flu one too. Just pop down up our name and NHS number and Bob’s your uncle... There will be other health checks possible too on a pop in basis. Why not? But this would be the result of a stable and prosperous nation.
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Post by lynette on Jan 24, 2021 16:12:12 GMT
It is a kind of gets- you -nowhere discussion because we are where we are but in rebuilding the main theatre the RSC did what all the theatres thought was the thing to do, that is have a large main auditorium with a studio or smaller space besides for experimental work. The NT did the same. Meanwhile theatre moved on as we all know and it has been the smaller spaces that have thrived, the Almeida for a while, the Donmar and the even smaller. The Old Vic still has a way of occupying that massive space, don't know how they do it except look how they were almost first to get live stuff streamed and a Christmas Carol imaginatively streamed. Interesting. If The Swan were the main RSC auditorium then TOP could be its studio. Plus now even more needed, some outside space for summer shows with the massive passing by audience who would love to sit and sup with a bit of Willie on the side a la London’s Globe. But we are where we are. So for 2021 only the big Main Stage RSC will be in operation with the stress of making it covid proof.
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Post by lynette on Jan 20, 2021 15:30:13 GMT
The Inauguration might be cheerful ....
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Post by lynette on Jan 20, 2021 15:28:46 GMT
Is that James Corden’s real voice? Not bad. Love a bit of singing, me.
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Post by lynette on Jan 15, 2021 14:33:43 GMT
They could have distancing by ripping out some of the uncomfortable benches and putting in chairs... like the gentlemen’s boxes. I know, not possible or authentic.
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Post by lynette on Jan 14, 2021 16:43:08 GMT
It is as if they have forgotten there is such a thing as half term. So removed from real life are they.
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Post by lynette on Jan 12, 2021 20:36:39 GMT
Stoppard’s The Real Thing has that playful conceit at the beginning tho the play is about other stuff really.
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Post by lynette on Jan 12, 2021 20:34:54 GMT
From his bio: He was Associate Director of the Peter Hall Company for three years, and worked four times as Trevor Nunn’s associate. Can now see where his confidence and pedigree comes from and would make a great AD for the RSC if given the opportunity, Jermyn St were inspired in giving him the job but speaking to Penny last year she said it was a huge gamble accepting his desire for Jermyn St to become a producing theatre which at the moment seems to be paying off. As we say, from your lips to G-d’s ears. 😉
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Post by lynette on Jan 12, 2021 20:33:31 GMT
One of my favourites. This and the dressmaking one and master chef the professionals. Oddly i do not go for the theatre based talent shows.
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Post by lynette on Jan 12, 2021 20:26:01 GMT
If you are interested in the history of China I can recommend The Story of China by Michael Wood, looks a huge book but it is very readable with lots of accounts from individuals. It goes a long way in explaining the Chinese mindset today. As for the USA we don't share a language as much as we think we do. Of course we understand it fully but there is another mindset beneath it. I’m sure you guys have all travelled more extensively in the US than I have but I have found in my limited experience that if you go a few miles away from the coast on either side you meet a very different cultural milieu , not better or worse than that of the UK but different.
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Post by lynette on Jan 9, 2021 15:57:14 GMT
I’d like to read this but subscription is a bit too much. So I’m wondering how to read the 100 article online without subscribing or if anyone has a hard copy they are finished with and wouldn’t mind posting to me. I know, I’m a cheapskate.
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Post by lynette on Jan 9, 2021 15:53:02 GMT
This was one of the most moving, brilliant pieces of theatre i have ever seen. It was a privilege being in the theatre and I am pretty sure the whole audience felt the same, a real community of theatre. Looks like a movie version will be good and give us Maggie’s performance for posterity, but in the theatre it was amazing.
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2021 23:14:11 GMT
They are having a rotten time over there with no leadership. However much we may moan justifiably at our leadership, we are nowhere near in the same mess. Have a chat to your US pals, I urge you. They veer between despair and delusion. Right from the start they were not alerted to the seriousness of the virus. Their whole mindset is off course. This is anecdotal of course but certainly what I have gleaned.
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2021 23:09:45 GMT
My neighbour, over 80 has had second dose today.
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Post by lynette on Jan 8, 2021 20:27:58 GMT
Great news that some of our guys here on the board are getting the jab!
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2021 23:40:31 GMT
Delighted to see JERMYN street win this award for best fringe theatre ( I presume in London) They got some zoomed stuff on right at the beginning of the whole doom laden year with a Rattigan and then their Myths women series was fab. They have really stepped up, engaged lots of actors and creatives, offered entertaining work, not just stood still but tried to move forward. All this from what is basically a basement which flooded. They had a marvellous season planned for 2020 and i do hope they can get some of it on this summer/autumn.
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2021 23:35:52 GMT
Thanks for the spoiler viserys. I always check spoilers. You have saved me the bother of watching. I’m delighted.
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Post by lynette on Jan 7, 2021 23:34:06 GMT
I asked my GP who regularly posts on facebook about the way we are being ‘summoned’. She didn't really reply except to say that her surgery is jabbing the over 80s at the moment and her staff have been done. She missed out because she was away that day. So it very much depends where you live and what surgery you are under. I know my friend’s mum who is 95 hasn’t been called yet! Yet the vaccine centre is about half a mile down the road from where she lives and my friend has called the GP and the centre. No dice. My GP thinks that they should use pharmacies. There is something about the pharmacists not being allowed to leave their pharmacy and go to a centre but they could do the jabs actually in the pharmacy itself with proper cleaning in place. They could in the larger pharmacy stores make a section especially for vaccinations. So we are at the mercy of mediocre management I suppose.
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Post by lynette on Jan 6, 2021 12:09:36 GMT
V clever opening episode.
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Post by lynette on Jan 1, 2021 23:19:51 GMT
Piece in the paper today about this place. I didn't know it existed. Sounds marvellous and they have kept going streaming and live. Interesting idea the director has that theatres in the future should embrace this duality of live and streaming. Anyone know this place?
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