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Post by n1david on Mar 3, 2023 13:40:00 GMT
Starring Ian McKellen and Roger Allam. A new comedy by Ben Weatherill, directed by Sean Mathias. In Bath for 2 weeks, 25 July - 5 August, "prior to a West End run" Bath general booking opens 13 March. www.theatreroyal.org.uk/event/frank-and-percy/ |
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Post by teamyali on Mar 3, 2023 13:43:02 GMT
Could @sohoplace be its ideal West End venue?
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Post by Jon on Mar 3, 2023 13:49:38 GMT
Could @sohoplace be its ideal West End venue? @sohoplace's shows are inhouse. |
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Post by jaggy on Mar 3, 2023 14:28:53 GMT
That poster is god awful.
Hmm... seems like an odd choice of material for McKellen and Allam. Not exactly something I'd want to see them in but I've never seen them perform onstage before. I guess I'll buy a ticket just so I can finally say I have.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 3, 2023 14:30:00 GMT
It is a typical BK poster design. Incredibly dated.
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 3, 2023 15:29:33 GMT
I'd rather die in a field.
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Post by nottobe on Mar 3, 2023 15:43:28 GMT
Well I have to say as an avid dog lover and Ian McKellen fan I am already sold. Imagining it will be quite an immediate transfer due to the two wee bath run.
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Mar 3, 2023 17:34:29 GMT
This has Theatre Royal Haymarket written all over it
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Post by bordeaux on Mar 3, 2023 17:42:02 GMT
This has Theatre Royal Haymarket written all over it I'm not sure the Theatre Royal Haymarket is the ideal place for witty and poignant, tbf. I don't know the writer and having googled him I think he may well not be ready for the sort of exposure a big London venue entails. |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 3, 2023 17:45:19 GMT
I'm in if there will be actual dogs on stage.
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Post by nottobe on Mar 3, 2023 18:18:59 GMT
I didn't realise that this was written by Ben Weatherill and I saw his play Jellyfish at the National Theatre so am glad he is getting more exposure too. If this is anything similar to Jellyfish then it could be a gem of a play.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 3, 2023 21:51:16 GMT
This looks and sounds truly hideous 🤣
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Post by sph on Mar 4, 2023 1:30:03 GMT
The poster looks like a bad direct-to-DVD movie from the 2000s!
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Post by djdan14 on Mar 4, 2023 22:31:50 GMT
Since it’s a Kenwright prehaps the other palace? If Heathers finally moves on.
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Post by alessia on Mar 5, 2023 5:47:54 GMT
I'd rather die in a field.  |
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Post by joem on Mar 5, 2023 21:55:46 GMT
Whatever the premise of the play anything with Mckellen and Allam in it is going to attract my custom. We must enjoy the former, in particular, whilst we can. Seen both on them on stage several times and they're both top-notch actors.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 5, 2023 21:57:28 GMT
Whatever the premise of the play anything with Mckellen and Allam in it is going to attract my custom. We must enjoy the former, in particular, whilst we can. Seen both on them on stage several times and they're both top-notch actors. Why? Is he retiring or something? |
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Post by joem on Mar 5, 2023 22:01:06 GMT
Whatever the premise of the play anything with Mckellen and Allam in it is going to attract my custom. We must enjoy the former, in particular, whilst we can. Seen both on them on stage several times and they're both top-notch actors. Why? Is he retiring or something? 84 in a few weeks. |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 6, 2023 16:30:17 GMT
Why? Is he retiring or something? 84 in a few weeks. Does he stop after that birthday? |
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Post by ladidah on Mar 6, 2023 16:46:23 GMT
The poster is hilariously bad, it looks like they are both in heaven.
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Post by cavocado on Mar 6, 2023 19:13:28 GMT
The poster is hilariously bad, it looks like they are both in heaven. Not even specially taken photos - RA's is on his Wikipedia page, taken in 2009. |
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Post by n1david on Mar 16, 2023 14:05:14 GMT
Theatre Royal Windsor 9 June - 22 July.
I'd have been pretty annoyed if I'd planned a special trip to Bath to see the pre-London run and then hear the announcement of an earlier run somewhere else...
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Post by harrystyles on Mar 16, 2023 14:16:17 GMT
The poster is hilariously bad, it looks like they are both in heaven. Not even specially taken photos - RA's is on his Wikipedia page, taken in 2009. The photo of RA has a big Biggins vibe |
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Post by Dave B on Jun 2, 2023 9:17:39 GMT
Has the West End run dropped off? Not a word on it in a while now.
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Post by Jan on Jun 2, 2023 9:38:34 GMT
Will this have actual dogs in it ? I saw Allam in The Cherry Orchard with a real dog - it wouldn’t stop barking and he picked it up and nearly strangled it.
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Post by frankubelik on Jun 10, 2023 6:14:21 GMT
Performance cancelled last night at the Theatre Royal Windsor due to "technical difficulties". Since it's a two hander, perhaps the set is giving trouble! Windsor very accommodating in exchanging tickets.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Jun 10, 2023 6:55:30 GMT
On my way to Windsor today for the matinee, hope everything is sorted and if not notified before I leave.
Thought the set was just a bench as the synopsis implies most of the action takes place whilst they walk their dogs in the park.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Jun 10, 2023 16:57:39 GMT
An octogenarian……
Really enjoyed this, only the first performance, a bit clunky and some prompting required but the twinkle was there.
Give it a few weeks, Allam & McKellen will be having a hoot.
Stage has a revolve and expect that is what caused last nights issues.
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Post by Jan on Jun 10, 2023 16:57:41 GMT
On my way to Windsor today for the matinee, hope everything is sorted and if not notified before I leave. Thought the set was just a bench as the synopsis implies most of the action takes place whilst they walk their dogs in the park. McKellen is not the first great actor in his declining years to appear in a lightweight American play prominently featuring a park bench. Paul Scofield - in one of several questionable career decisions - appeared in I’m Not Rappaport in the West End |
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Post by sf on Jun 20, 2023 21:26:09 GMT
It's slight, sweet, middlebrow, predictable - exactly what you'd expect from the poster - and sometimes very funny. It's also too long. It's a two-act play that is crying out to be a ninety-minute one-act. Allam and McKellen are charming, it has a nice set, and it needs to lose twenty-five minutes of stage time and the interval.
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