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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 13:32:48 GMT
I used to want to be buried inside Not any more [This comment was removed before posting]
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 13:30:49 GMT
Everyman Wonder.land Threepenny Opera Salome Common All stupid choices for the Olivier And none of them a proper success None anywhere near sold out Most of them Travelex shows Go Figure The first three, in your list, all used the Olivier brilliantly, and each of them drew me back to see the next Rufus Norris show in that venue. Okay, your personal taste is clearly different to mine, but it's unreasonable to expect everything to suit you personally.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 13:24:52 GMT
Read the books by Peter Hall, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Hytner! I think the perceived problem may be linked to the move away from the previous NT system of having a team of Associste Directors, who have much less administrative responsibilities and who each directed a couple of shows a year, to a project-based system where every production is a one-off event. The only active, regularly directing Associate now is Dominic Cooke, and Follies will only be his third show in three years. Marianne Elliott has left and Howard Davies has briefly brought back for one show but sadly died while making it. Lyndsey Turner was named as an Associate Director, and directed one of Rufus Norris's opening shows, but then promptly vanished from the NT stage, although she's due back there shortly.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 13:08:22 GMT
That's what you get For putting a non Oxbridge candidate In a job they aren't designed for The people responsible for Common are Jeremy Herrin of Headlong and Ben Power, NT Associate Director, Head of New Work.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 13:03:12 GMT
And why does he direct so few shows himself? Two a year is in fact a high rate for an artistic director of a massive arts organisation: 2015/16 Everyman & wonder.land 2016/17 The Threepenny Opera & My Country; a work in progress 2017/18 Mosquitoes & Macbeth
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 12:46:35 GMT
Has the NT dropped classic plays? Twelfth Night, Hedda Gabler, three Chekhovs, Threepenny opera, Les Blancs, The Deep Blue Sea, The Plough and the Stars in the last 12 months? They dropped them after staging those productions.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 3:51:47 GMT
Apologies but I can't read Steve's posts because they're too detailed for me and risk swamping my firsthand reactions.
One observation on the play and production is that I bristle at the playwright's apparently overwhelming contribution. I generally feel more comfortable in the presence of a collaborative show, such as by the Wooster Group who've tackled similar themes in similar ways, because they are totally made to be experienced by an audience present in the room, whereas I always feel suspicious of a text-based piece like this where it appears that a sole author of the text has laid down a specific path which the audience struggles to identify and to recognise. Last night there was a core audience of seasoned supporters of the Orange Tree who strained to appreciate the piece as best they could and who were eventually rewarded towards the end in the melodramatic extravaganza which they lapped up with relish.
I am so glad to have had the opportunity to see this show - Thank You Orange Tree! - but I come down on the side of those who find professional academic american playwriting to be not quite to their taste.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 7, 2017 3:28:04 GMT
Saw it tonight. Essentially, The Old Vic has stepped into the breach created by the National Theatre dropping classic plays. But with an inexperienced adaptor and director, it's all too stolid and worthy, like a regional rep production of a classic - which is what it is really. Disappointing.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 5, 2017 8:47:28 GMT
And Justin Bieber!
Bravo Ariana!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 5, 2017 8:46:06 GMT
One Love Manchester
Strong
Live Forever
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 4, 2017 20:27:51 GMT
It's not the fault of the production that some of its more feeble-minded audiences couldn't take the Nazi deathcamps seriously.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 4, 2017 12:49:25 GMT
An Octoroon (Orange Tree)
Woyzeck (Old Vic)
Flowers (Chapter)
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 4, 2017 12:35:35 GMT
Anyone going tonight?
Party!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 4, 2017 10:03:00 GMT
But the overwhelming majority of adults with faith totally condemn these terrorist actions.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 4, 2017 9:48:49 GMT
Indoctrinating your children that a certain god is almighty and that you should do what you think he wants is RADICAL per definition. No sense of self is created this way. We need to adjust our views on the term radicalisation. No, it's normal socialisation.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 3, 2017 22:24:08 GMT
It's reported at this length because it's not yet usual in the UK. If it were to become the norm, we'd all get used to it and it would be reported much less.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 2, 2017 9:15:14 GMT
And if Ms Duff is fascinating, as noted, she is also inscrutable. We can't, in truth, believe anything she says - her actions, at times, belie what she says - so we can't empathize, can't make a connection to her She is Parsley.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 1, 2017 22:23:34 GMT
Dick and his Cat Whittington
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 1, 2017 22:15:00 GMT
Echo.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 1, 2017 19:42:23 GMT
What would they consider dangerous? A bomb, perhaps?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 1, 2017 16:15:26 GMT
a 2.15 pm start is annoyingly early Matinees are at 2.00.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 31, 2017 22:27:09 GMT
My friend got a stain in her Fendi jumpsuit A fan of Danny Mac.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 30, 2017 15:58:24 GMT
third is erm Shakespeare so not that category either. Caroline Byrne
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 30, 2017 13:07:20 GMT
The Captive Queen by John Dryden (Caroline) The Secret Theatre is set in Elizabeth I's court (Jacobethan) All's Well that Ends Well directed by Caroline Byrne
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 30, 2017 12:35:23 GMT
See my post above. I cant' believe it hapenned twice. This is the first I heard of the conclusion eventually being staged, as we we advised by the staff to move away with haste. It was a Saturday night. We were told to evacuate the theatre and that the performance was abandoned but some of us hung around and after over half an hour were invited back in. Sad thing to consider, but its worth remembering we overcame those terrorists and we will overcome the next. As a point of fact, "we" (the UK Government?) didn't overcome the IRA. All parties engaged in a peace process.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 30, 2017 11:49:03 GMT
A new musical
20 Oct - 6 Jan (not every night because in rep with other shows)
Love and chocolate
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 30, 2017 10:49:41 GMT
Don Carlo does seem an accident - prone opera. When I attended an ENO production of Don Carlo, the performance was interrupted by an IRA bomb alert in the West End locality. The Coliseum was evacuated and searched and about half the audience returned to hear a heavily cut conclusion.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 23, 2017 13:59:10 GMT
RADA!?
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 23, 2017 13:24:40 GMT
Aged 89 and a half.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 23, 2017 13:17:34 GMT
Oh how sad Two and a half years! Then straight out on UK tour. In the context of today's other news, is this really so sad?
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