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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 9, 2018 18:36:06 GMT
This must be the first time in history that TheatreBoard members have ever been sufficiently interested in theatre in Wales to extend a thread on the subject beyond page 1.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 9, 2018 13:10:01 GMT
That or Blakemore has scrapped his project together. Brexit means Brexit.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 9, 2018 10:41:28 GMT
Every morning when I wake, I think: Today must be the day. But it isn't. Yet.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 16:05:04 GMT
I haven't seen anything here yet about the new Dennis Kelly play, starring Carey Mulligan. I see it's the first preview tonight, so will be very interested to hear reports. It's a monologue, I gather, and eighty minutes long. The information on the Royal Court website makes it sound extraordinarily unoriginal: "An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family. But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn." Probably a sign that it's a masterpiece. There's already a thread, although the mods refused to correct the title.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 12:37:49 GMT
The BBC want a third so perhaps they will prevail. Probably, the BBC also want a fourth and a fifth. Like Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 12:33:22 GMT
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 10:43:39 GMT
Your point does literally nothing to invalidate my points. "NEVER WRITE FOR FREE" - Here, they earlier wrote for free before selF-publication on their blog, so shouldn't your screech be: NEVER PUBLISH FOR FREE (EXCEPT ON YOUR OWN BLOG)?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 10:38:15 GMT
I haven't seen John but presumably a ghost would play the pianola in exactly the same way as a human would, by operating the pianola roll, not by treating it as a piano.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 10:31:24 GMT
I third (fourth? Where are we up to?) the NEVER WRITE FOR FREE sentiment. Exposure won't pay the bills, and even if you don't feel like you need the money, every piece of work you provide for free ultimately shafts the writers who depend on their fees for their living. In the words of the shampoo ad: "because you're worth it". But thw topiv under discussion is about republication of an existing blog.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 8, 2018 10:05:15 GMT
A pianola has to be played by a performer. Skill is required to control the tempo and to keep the roll in its correct place.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 5, 2018 13:28:57 GMT
Have to say that I cringed myself inside out at that bit. Dad dancing at its finest. "Dad dancing" is a fair assessment of this production. And "Dad dozing" would fit Young Marx. But I'm told that the madeleines are lovely by people who like a nice madeleine.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 3, 2018 13:55:15 GMT
The qualite of posts on theatre boards has also deteriorated. I blame the Brexit referendum.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 3, 2018 3:29:31 GMT
Yes thank god! Still two weeks away, though i imagine we will get more leaks now. To be expected, at your age.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 2, 2018 10:45:41 GMT
Lucy Bailey is directing a new production of Love from a Stranger by Dame Agatha and Frank Vosper. Touring from Feb to Jul, inc Richmond 1-5 May.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 2, 2018 10:34:51 GMT
Well. Quite. I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! Correct thread for that, right? Trump that, Wrighty!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 23:04:34 GMT
Yawn.
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Corrie
Feb 1, 2018 22:11:30 GMT
Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 22:11:30 GMT
Emily going to Peru was stupid, why not just say she has gone to stay in Mavis. Because that would be bizarre.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 22:04:40 GMT
Giles Coren is otherwise engaged for the duration of Series Two.
GOOD!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 21:45:15 GMT
It's an urban myth that Hampstead Downstairs used to employ bouncers to bar the entry of professional critics. It wsa simply that they didn't invite critics or hold press performances. Do you imagine that Ed Hall used to stand at the bottom of the stairs saying: "Oi, Billington, I know it's you under that burkah. F**k off back to the Finborough and the RSC, matey."
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 11:43:11 GMT
The NT has already brought in Young Chekhov from Chichester, Jane Eyre and Peter Pan from Bristol, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour from Scotland and Newcastle, Iphigenia in Splott from Cardiff, Pomona and An Octoroon from Richmond. And co-produced wonder.land and Husbands and Sons with Manchester, Barber Shop Chronicles with Leeds, LOVE with Birmingham. The building is not a TARDIS. It can only present a limited number of productions.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 11:10:31 GMT
Yes, and has she ever had a hit play? I mean, has a single production of any of her plays ever run for more than 65 years?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 10:57:57 GMT
I remember Stephen Daldry and Ian MacNeil's NT production of Machinal with Fiona Shaw. The Almeida blurb is pretty spot on so, if that doesn't interest you, I suggest you don't go.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 1, 2018 0:47:03 GMT
the only thing I would say is that I don’t necessarily agree with it something being a Travelex production one year and then coming back the following year at non-Travelex prices, as has been the case for Amadeus Why not? I prefer Travelex to sponsor four new productions each year. I don't want them to sponsor just three new productions and a revival of Amadeus.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 31, 2018 11:20:38 GMT
“It will come back to the National, and hopefully beyond the National, but we haven’t got any concrete plans. We haven’t got any dates yet but it will probably be this time next year,” Dominic Cooke told The Stage.
"and hopefully beyond the National" - doesn't necessarily mean the West End.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 30, 2018 11:37:46 GMT
I don't think this is even going to be screened in Liverpool - What are you on about? It's at the Odeon Liverpool ONE from Friday.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 28, 2018 23:47:33 GMT
You've not seen O"Neill before then? His plays are never short. Except the several of about twenty minutes' duration.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 27, 2018 19:15:40 GMT
John (NT, 2017)
Uh, this is 2018, peeps.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 26, 2018 17:18:20 GMT
Circle Mirror Transformation ?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 25, 2018 12:08:14 GMT
I saw A Christmas Carol last week and absolutely loved it, so I'm glad it's returning. It says on the 10th December performance that it will be filmed, so does anyone know if that means it will be released or just filmed for archives? I can't imagine it will be a RSC Live broadcast as it isn't Shakespeare. If you click on "this performance will be filmed" it appears it will be for cinema broadcast This performance will be filmed for broadcast to cinemas. There will be cameras in the auditorium although, unless stated, these shouldn’t interrupt your view. If so it seems odd for the cinema broadcast performance to be the day before press night! In the printed brochure, there's nothing about filming or a broadcast of AChristmas Carol. But it states that the Writer & Director Talk on 10 December at 5.15-6PM will be live streamed online.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 23, 2018 23:23:57 GMT
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