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Post by Marwood on May 29, 2018 10:51:53 GMT
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Post by Marwood on May 28, 2018 21:36:47 GMT
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Paul Anderson s performance in this it’s just that after seeing him in Peaky Blinders, he seems to be far too reined in playing Tartuffe-it needs someone to really go for it, a performance along the lines of Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs Of America that really goes at it hammer and tongs and dominates the play. As it is, I wasn’t really convinced why anyone would want to give Tartuffe everything.
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Post by Marwood on May 27, 2018 19:15:42 GMT
I’ve seen him several times and never seen him get his cock out- maybe Germaine Greer has either been very ‘lucky’ with her choice of his shows, or she has been having some very odd flights of fiction. Having said that, I’m going to see his King Lear when it starts up this summer, and am hoping I don’t get bollock-bedazzled from my seat in the second row 😵
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Post by Marwood on May 27, 2018 18:49:05 GMT
You forgot to mention Lesley Joseph 😝
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Post by Marwood on May 27, 2018 16:46:13 GMT
I know certain people (who have since been given life bans 😂) have made snide comments about seeing celebrities at the BFI in the who’s the last famous person you’ve seen thread, so I’m going to post on here instead.
This afternoon at the screening of McKellen:Playing The Part, not only Ian McKellen and Graham Norton, but also :
Derek Jacobi, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Helen Mirren and, er, Lesley Joseph.
Orlando Bloom was sat two seats along from me with a mystery man friend and a (impeccably behaved) poodle type hound - I managed to refrain from asking him for an autograph, a selfie or enquiring about the state of his paddle.
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Post by Marwood on May 27, 2018 13:09:00 GMT
No theatre but seeing McKellen:Playing The Part at BFI Southbank this afternoon with Ian McKellen and Graham Norton, we’ve been promised appearances from Martin Freeman and Derek Jacobi too.
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Post by Marwood on May 27, 2018 13:06:40 GMT
I missed lots of you. I was row B. I really liked this and found Molina as Rothko deeply moving as a man who couldn't accept he wasn't part of the new exciting art scene and had been accepted, reluctantly, into mainstream society. His line to Enoch's character to make something new was a lovely sentiment for all artists whatever their craft. Keep doing what you do but someone younger and maybe sexier might come along and donut better. Fire alarm was exciting too, Molina and Enoch really handled it well. 😮: where were you sat? I was in B16, hope I haven’t given you reasons to post in the bad behaviour thread...
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Post by Marwood on May 27, 2018 11:00:00 GMT
Air conditioning in the Theatre Royal Haymarket and Wyndham's yesterday were both perfect (shame about the fire alarm going off ad us all getting evacuated at Wyndham's but you can't have everything I guess)
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Post by Marwood on May 26, 2018 21:27:40 GMT
Ushers were telling us there were problems backstage which set the alarm off - the curtain was the icing on the cake. I didn’t really take to this I’m afraid, all well acted but the whole thing just seemed a bit pointless- only paid £10 so wasn’t tempted to hang around to give the firemen something proper to investigate.
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Post by Marwood on May 26, 2018 18:49:21 GMT
Everyone evacuated after 10 minutes tonight, currently standing outside while the fire brigade investigate - all very ‘exciting ‘
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Post by Marwood on May 26, 2018 18:44:37 GMT
Sorry to be that person but how long is it running at the moment? It was 2 hours 20 minutes today, but it’s still in previews so might come down.
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Post by Marwood on May 26, 2018 16:30:16 GMT
I thought it was OK rather than anything special - I wasn’t as enamoured with the ending as the chuckling hordes sat behind me. First time I’ve seen a production of this so I’m not sure what shoe horning mentions of Amyl Nitrate, bikinis and Twitter into proceedings brought to the table either.
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Post by Marwood on May 26, 2018 14:49:05 GMT
Interval time - a LOT of French to take in, and no explanation why characters switch between French and English. Surtitles are at either side of the stage and right at the top, so don’t sit in the front two rows unless you’re fluent in French.
Audrey Fleurot is indeed loveliness personified (and the maid is rather lovely too), Paul Anderson quite good so far, although he doesn’t get to speak until 40 minutes or so into proceedings. Not exactly comedy gold so far, but at least I’m not tempted to do a Parsley and bail (its two and a half hours long)
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Post by Marwood on May 26, 2018 12:25:55 GMT
Maybe she should think of her child/filming commitments before agreeing to a run in the theatre abroad?Just saying...
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Post by Marwood on May 25, 2018 16:48:38 GMT
Maybe she is erm une grande diva?Less than a fortnight in and needing a holiday makes me think she’s the French Martine McCutcheon...
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Post by Marwood on May 25, 2018 14:04:44 GMT
Isn’t that just a typical luvvie reply though?
‘I can’t sing!’
‘Oh but dahling, you have the voice of an angel!’
‘Why thank you sweetie, much humble thanks’
Followed by much nauseating congrutaling, hugs and mwa mwa mwa air kissing 🤢
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Post by Marwood on May 25, 2018 11:21:12 GMT
Word of warning, just noticed this on TRH website:
'Audrey Fleurot will not be performing on all dates, the role of Elmire will be played by Sophie Duez on the following dates;
June 4, 8, 14, 19, 22, 28 July 3, 5, 9, 10, 20, 27'
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Post by Marwood on May 25, 2018 11:13:26 GMT
The Rolling Stones at London Stadium on Tuesday Alexei Sayle at the Museum of Comedy on Thursday LCD Soundsystem at ALL Points East on Friday and Red at Wyndhams on Saturday Thank God its a 4 day weekend next week... and the matinee of Tartuffe tomorrow.
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Post by Marwood on May 25, 2018 11:12:23 GMT
I've got a £40 row E ticket for tomorrows matinee performance - wish me luck with the surtitles...
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Post by Marwood on May 23, 2018 19:17:44 GMT
I’m thinking/hoping the erm, soiled article was a Now You See Me type of magic trick and it was just a dry and stained cloth but I have no intention of sitting front row again to find out. I also wear glasses and bought a new, expensive pair a couple of weeks ago: I saw Begbie take someone’s glasses off and fling them: I was ready to take his snooker cue off him and stick it where the sun don’t shine if he tried it with me...
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Post by Marwood on May 22, 2018 15:27:37 GMT
There’s a link for discounted tickets in tonight’s Standard, unfortunately my schedule is chokka so I won’t be going.
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Post by Marwood on May 21, 2018 14:01:29 GMT
Ummm, what did the woman who got Zsa Zsa-ed in the face with a soiled sheet do when said sheet hit her? She laughed it off and handed the sheet back to ‘our hero’ - she didn’t seem marked but the substance in question looked brown and wet, so I didn’t want to get any first hand experience to find out what it was. There was only one other walkout (that I saw), a man sat opposite left after about 40 minutes : I don’t think he was Parsley, it was more like he had enough of worrying about getting sprayed with God knows what.
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Post by Marwood on May 21, 2018 12:55:24 GMT
I saw this last Tuesday and am only putting down a few words now as A) the cast asked us all to spread the word at the end of the show, B) it closes in a couple of weeks time and C) part of me has taken its time to process what went on.
After the audience congregated in the bar area, listening to 90s rave tunes, we were then led in to a low dark room, three rows of steps used as seats while the cast danced about to more rave tunes at a MUCH louder volume while waving glowsticks about. I had kind of hoped the immersive thing about this show would just be them dancing about a couple of feet in front of us, and maybe one or two people having to join in (one 'lucky' person got dragged round for a couple of minutes before being allowed to sit back down) - oh how wrong I was...
I've only seen the film a few times, and haven't read the book since it came out, so would hardly describe myself as an expert on either, but the fact this only runs for 70 minutes or so belies the fact that some serious editing has gone on story wise - several characters are either removed completely (no Diane) or reduced to a few mentions (most mention of Spud is gone), and there are no scenes in London, for example and the ending is different.
Now on to the play itself, like the book it is pretty much several scenes where each of the main actors gives a speech to the audience while walking about, usually in some state of disrepair. Renton gets the erm... 'meatier' of these scenes. First of these, curled up under a blanket in the dark, he wakes up to throw the blanket and sheet on top of him off to reveal his nekkidness to all and sundry, he then stands up and turns round to reveal he has, er, soiled himself before proceeding to wonder round giving numerous poor unfortunates an up close and personal view of his crown jewels, and a couple of not so lucky people at the back got a prime view of him bent over, wiping his erse (to quote it in Irvine Welsh vernacular). At this point he then threw the soiled sheet into the audience and it hit the woman sat next to me full on in the face - which is when I decided that maybe I should be a lot more careful about immersive shows, especially ones where I stupidly think it's a great idea to sit in the front row (I had gone straight from work wearing a suit I had only got out of the dry cleaners the same day, so I spent the next hour having visions of having to wear it home with what might look like giant skid marks on it, but thankfully nothing touched me).
I'll keep the rest of this brief, but we also get the Renton toilet scene, with various fluids and bits of wet toilet paper being flung up into the air and into the audience, Begbie wandering around waving a snooker cue about and getting lairy of various members of the front row (someone was compared to Rolf Harris, bet he was happy to boast about that to whoever he told he'd been to see it), then whipping his pregnant wife with a belt (don't remember him even having a wife mentioned in the film or book), more nudity, both male and female, along with plenty of flashing lights, and a LOT of swearing.
I'm usually pretty OK with watching films with Scots accents, but I have to admit these are pretty full on, there are moments when the words come so thick and fast it like some sort of Shakespeare and it just blurs into one.
It started off enjoyable enough but I have to admit but what with living in fear of being splashed by some unmentionable object, or having to partake in banter with the cast, it got a bit wearying by the time it ended (the plays ending was delayed just before the end when a man fainted, I don't know if it was the heat, the darkness in there, whatever he had been drinking or if he had just become bollock-bedazzled).
I'm glad I saw it, it has certainly left me with enough anecdotes to impress my friends and colleagues with over the next few months when they try to impress me with what they've seen, but I don't know if I'd be in a rush to see it again. Recommended if you want something full on, but not one to take you elder relatives to see, and not one to go wearing your best clothes to.
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Post by Marwood on May 20, 2018 12:53:35 GMT
The Rolling Stones at London Stadium on Tuesday Alexei Sayle at the Museum of Comedy on Thursday LCD Soundsystem at ALL Points East on Friday and Red at Wyndhams on Saturday
Thank God its a 4 day weekend next week...
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Post by Marwood on May 18, 2018 16:15:57 GMT
Why does this have Shane Richie written all over it, a year before it opens?
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Post by Marwood on May 17, 2018 8:39:28 GMT
Some places like the R.C. only do playtexts, but I always go for programmes.
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Post by Marwood on May 14, 2018 22:31:10 GMT
To tell the truth, I'm not that sure what she did outside of the Superman films, so I wasn't sure she warrants a thread in the performers section, but can I just say Margot Kidder R.I.P.? she will always be Lois Lane for me.
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Post by Marwood on May 14, 2018 19:50:05 GMT
can't believe Amazon still want £11.58 for the DVD of this, I would have thought they'd be giving this away in Poundland by now £5.99 new / £3 secondhand on Ebay, nearer the mark, I'd guess. I’m impressed/shocked that someone went out of their way to see if they could get this any cheaper 😂
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Post by Marwood on May 13, 2018 22:50:31 GMT
Apparently public booking for Julie not supposed to open until the 18th, but managed to nab stalls earlier tonight Julie belongs to the previous booking block so it has been available to book for a couple of months now. It was only after posting my previous comment that I realised my tickets were returns, and by then it was too late to edit my post
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Post by Marwood on May 12, 2018 23:22:18 GMT
Run For Your Wife : considering the fact it only took about £50 at the box office, I can't believe Amazon still want £11.58 for the DVD of this, I would have thought they'd be giving this away in Poundland by now, but what a cast: Danny Dyer Neil Morrissey Denise Van Outen Sarah Harding Dame Judi Rolf Harris Biggins Lionel Blair Cliff Richard Derek Griffiths Vicki Michelle Bernard Cribbins Richard Briers Jenny Seagrove Brian Murphy June Whitfield Maureen Lipman 'Sir' Jeffrey Holland Su Pollard (and I'm going to stop it there because I'm becoming star struck by this cast myself: IMDB and be awestruck by how far down the bill Tom Conti and Dennis Waterman are) if Richard Curtis had been involved with a film with a cast like that it would be on TV every Christmas Day, mark my words...
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