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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 9, 2017 11:06:42 GMT
Parsley, have a read of Cameron / Johnson, B. / Osborne student profiles. Smashing up restaurants, f*cking pigs' heads, etc., etc.
And Theresa May's admitted trashing of the assets of local entrepreneurs in her youth.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 9, 2017 10:58:47 GMT
this is potentially an issue for others, rather than a joke for the amusement of those with nothing better to do than poke fun. It is both.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 9, 2017 2:48:25 GMT
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Theresa May's next audience with the Queen.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 9, 2017 0:35:50 GMT
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 23:00:57 GMT
Brexit means Brexit
Strong and stable
You are not my priority
Enough is enough
I resign
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 19:35:11 GMT
If people put up with that And accept Then it's their own problem ...Which they may Alleviate By voting Labour
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 19:15:26 GMT
And he hasn't yet exhausted all the 'classic' roles available to him. But how many classical plays are produced in the UK, apart from at the Arcola, Southwark Playhouse and the Finborough? Actually, DJ is a classic role!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 14:58:02 GMT
As I approach the community hall which is my polling station, I read: "strong and stable my arse" flyposted to a telecoms box just outside. But Theresa May has the last laugh in the subliminal election messaging stakes as, prominently displayed in the entrance porch, is a colourful Zumba poster featuring a smiling female gymnast and the single banner word: "STRONG".
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 14:41:11 GMT
Because of the signing I would be looking for £24 !
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 14:21:43 GMT
This new production is to be relocated to Harlem during its renaissance (which was in the 1920s). So, the casting is the complete opposite of the "colour blind" casting claimed by showbizkid. It will recreate the period quite authentically, I imagine, and detractors may dismiss that as stereotyping but really it's celebrating an explosively creative historical moment. And the ethnicity of all the casting hasn't been announced. Harlem was a melting pot at that time. I think there's some confusion here about a Black-led company. It's not a company which only casts Black actors.
This seems a similar approach to Bijan Sheibani's Almeida relocation of Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba from the original rural Spain to rural Iran, to give just one example.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 11:26:16 GMT
In the past, 20 to 30 years ago, I'd go for between 4 and 7 days and see at least four shows a day and it works out to cost more per show (with travel, accommodation and food) than it would if I saw them in London (travelling on a budget from Cardiff and being able to spare the extra time it would take).
When Duncan talks about free shows, I assume he's referring to the limited numbers of venues which present shows on a Pay-What-You-Like basis. I think you would have to be a pretty disgusting human being to see this as an invitation to glut yourself on two weeks of theatre and pay nothing. In any case, you'd be excluded from the vast majority of shows which have standard ticketing.
If you relish seeing huge numbers of shows in a limited time, with a very wide choice, in a city festival environment stuffed full of micro-venues (some very large!) and surrounded by what feels like the whole theatre world of practitioners, programmers and enthusiasts, then Edinburgh is for you! Most of the companies are sleeping three to a mattress in Duncan's outside toilet and the like, which are rented out for this purpose at exorbitant ratew for the month.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 11:10:38 GMT
This entire thread is the result of a successful trolling opening post by Parsley. What exactly does a doctor mean by "idiot"? It colloquially implies low intelligence or learning disabilities but a doctor, such as Parsley, would reasonably be expected to use a more current and precise term if that were what they meant by the word. And obviously this isn't at all the case with Diane Abbott. So it's just a malicious slur which means nothing of any substance at all, but which is intended to stir up any feelings of discontent which anyone may already have or have had.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 10:57:18 GMT
Someone has been reading too much Agatha Christie. Who did what? When? Blah-di-blah-di-blah.
It seems that the Park offered for sale seating in a limited central area.
In the unfortunate absence of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, I suggest we all lie down to recover and then move on.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 8, 2017 10:20:36 GMT
This struck me as being both hypocritical and racist. You're overlooking the fact that, at that time, the state school system was failing children of Afro-Caribbean heritage. So, those colleagues' children would have fared significantly better than her children if they'd attended the same school, all other factors being equal. It was more a clash of principles in the real world than hypocrisy. Race was the clinching factor in the problem, to which she had to react.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 22:59:55 GMT
Someone has to do a play about Michael Gove / Boris Johnson / Andrea Leadsom
She is not mocked because she is black
Or a female
It's because she is an idiot
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 22:55:55 GMT
Stupid to programme this At the start of the season July and August Much warmer But performers risk Heatstroke if they Dance in midsummer so Now's best for musicals
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 22:39:16 GMT
It's a co-production with Talawa, the UK's main black theatre company. The Royal Exchange is very good at co-producing with various smaller national companies, (such as Talawa previously and also Told by an Idiot and Graeae, for example), and enabling those companies to work on a larger scale than usual. All these national companies exist because their constituencies are generally overlooked by the "mainstream" companies. They don't only cast from a limited pool - the whole company exists to support the work of theatremakers from their specific community and to address their specific audiences, as well as the general audience, who are neglected by the "mainstream".
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 22:32:18 GMT
I used to do that! But on A4 because I have very small writing. And I didn't divide into categories. But my last visit was in 2001. The whole thing is too expensive now, and I also can't cope with seeing loads of stuff one after another.
And many of the shows that I'd gravitate towards (small-scale theatre at the Traverse and Summerhall, etc.) can be seen later in London or on UK tour.
However, I still envy people who go! And think I may return one year, or more, before I die.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 18:48:53 GMT
Heard yesterday that the WMC are implementing bag searches now. At first for people going into the theatre, but eventually (staffing allowing) for entering the building. For the latter, as it has nearly as many doors as the NT and many other businesses/offices in the building that's going to be a logistical nightmare. But given it's prominence as a building probably increased security is long overdue. And, of course, the proximity of the space-time rift brings other problems.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 18:44:55 GMT
Yep, I am a Peterborough boy born and raised, but lived in Bedford for 5 years, although am considering moving back to Peterborough before the next adventure. Wisbech could be next?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 18:29:53 GMT
Returning to London for a month long run this Summer. I.e., the tour has been extended by a return visit to co-producing theatre Lyric Hammersmith.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 18:26:38 GMT
The new season also has a new stage version of Derek Jarman's 1979 film Jubilee, with original star Toyah now to appear as Toyah Wilcox in the role of Queen Elizabeth. Chris Goode's new version will be set in our present, so doubtless all the posters here will start complaining about everything being changed, as they nostalgically reminisce about the good old days when punk was punk and you could all merrily cram into a sweatbox and spit all over each other all night long.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 15:21:28 GMT
I really enjoyed Not Safe for Work by D C Moore which hilariously followed the fate of the employees of a government agency relocated to a business park in Northampton. With Zawe Ashton, Sacha Dhawan, Anastasia Hille and others.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 15:12:16 GMT
I too have just about done with The Cherry Orchard. I love Uncle Vanya and am constantly being tricked into seeing Platonov (stop giving it different names, we all know they're all Platonov once we get in there), but I know I've seen enough Cherry Orchards. In October, there are at least three new Chekhovs coming up. The Sherman is premiering a new version of The Cherry Orchard re-imagined by Gary Owen and directed by Rachel O'Riordan. Set in early '80s Britain at the dawn of the Thatcher regime. Theatr Clwyd and Sheffield Theatres have Peter Gill's version of Uncle Vanya. And the Lyric Hammersmith has Simon Stephens's The Seagull. And I'm sure there'll be others!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 14:48:49 GMT
Both runs of "Danton's Death" I think. I really Don't think that is correct Meaning, I suppose, that they were both to your personal taste.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 14:44:23 GMT
I know we make this comment every time, but it bears repeating on this occasion.
If you value a smoothly running performance with perfect chemistry between the performers, is it really wise to attend a first preview?
Isn't that a bit like going outside at first light in midsummer and then telling everyone how cold it is today?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 14:24:38 GMT
^I'd have liked to double-"like" the above post because I "liked" both points!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 14:17:44 GMT
Laurence Olivier had Kenneth Tynan as Associate, Literary Manager.
Similarly, Rufus Norris has Ben Power as Associate, Head of New Work Department.
The theatre-making process now is different from then, and Rufus Norris is a far superior director to Laurence Olivier, but a senior Associate providing dramaturgical support to the artistic director was and is present then and now.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 14:08:21 GMT
Back to the original topic, announcing a new play is an art in itself. Vicky Featherstone recently said that the Royal Court is careful to reveal as little as possible so that audiences can experience the plays directly. Personally, I like to know the flavour of a show, which is why I choose to see things on the basis of the director or sometimes writer. I always feel guilty about going to see something mainly to see an actor because this seems so trivial and a distraction from the essence of the show. Although sometimes the actor is a key flavour, as with Kathryn Hunter or, in the past, Tilda Swinton or Neil Bartlett.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 13:37:41 GMT
!? Like my farming grandfather? - Oi went to Oxforrd, y'knouw ... [Long, stunned silence] - Fer a noight fer me unnymoon. [Laughs loudly, displaying complete absence of teeth]
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