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Post by Rory on May 30, 2023 8:06:03 GMT
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Post by profquatermass on May 30, 2023 10:13:00 GMT
Excellent news
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Post by schuttep on Jun 6, 2023 10:14:07 GMT
Loved this when it was on TV. So have booked tickets with 4 friends in Richmond in February.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2023 22:25:22 GMT
Was always a great TV series and the launching pad for a number of the cast. The fact that pretty much all the surviving cast are on board is good too. How the writers get around the characters now being in their late 50's to early 70's will be interesting but I think they will come up with an original and funny script.
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Post by pws on Feb 1, 2024 7:44:35 GMT
Saw this last night in Richmond. It was sold out and is coming back at the end of the tour. It was great to see the actors and the characters again. Each got an absolutely tremendous reception. The play is, um, not great, but there are some very funny bits. I've always liked Julia Hills but felt her part was a bit pointless. And it was great that the teddy bear got well deserved applause.
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Post by vdcni on Feb 3, 2024 6:56:33 GMT
Saw it last night, the play isn't amazing but as mentioned it's very funny at points and the audience were very appreciative with all the original cast getting entrance applause and some very strong positive reactions to the better jokes. The more topical stuff went down particularly well. Sally as their unwitting Katie Hopkins also a highpoint.
The play is structurally problematic though. The satire of diversity and wokeism feels clunky and mostly gets dropped by the second act. More time spent with the characters would have been nice, Joy in particular is underused. Yes she's aggressive but back in the day she felt an integral part of the gang, here she's much more one note. Don't know why we needed two scenes with Sally's agent when one would have done the job and yes though it's nice to see fellow 90s comedy royalty Julia Hills her character didn't feel essential.
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 3, 2024 15:34:13 GMT
I hope Julia Hills is reading this to see how loved she is. I was very excited to see her as the Countess in All's Well at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol a few years back.
I'm currently rewatching 2point4 children on iplayer coincidentally.
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Post by jacklondon on Feb 5, 2024 22:40:00 GMT
I saw this in Richmond and really loved it. I was a big fan of the original TV series, so maybe I was always likely to be well disposed to it. However, the friend I was with had never seen the show and thought it stood pretty well without that background knowledge. Running time was 2 hours 10 minutes (with interval).
To me it felt like an extended episode of the TV series with that familiar mix of topical jokes and a little dive into character back stories (especially lovely to hear what their characters had been up to since the demise of GlobeLink News). The premise of the show was really clever too, neatly explaining how they ended up together again. Thought it worked well.
You always worry that a revival won't live up to what came before but with the original writers and surviving cast I guess this had more chance than most. I thought it did the original series proud.
Nice touch to remember David Swift and Hadyn Gwynne on the big screen at the curtain call too.
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Post by fiyero on Feb 25, 2024 21:22:18 GMT
I saw this in Chichester yesterday and had a great time. It did feel a bit like it had been set up to be an extended reboot episode or tv-film but did make good use of the single set. It was great seeing the characters again but some of the plots didn’t seem too joined up. The audience didn’t care though! They all had a great time too!
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Post by Jan on Feb 26, 2024 6:44:59 GMT
I hope Julia Hills is reading this to see how loved she is. I was very excited to see her as the Countess in All's Well at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol a few years back. I saw her in that play too, but in Trevor Nunn's definitive 1982 RSC production that was so good it transferred to Broadway. In the London run she played Diana taking over from Cheryl Campbell who'd played it in Stratford.
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