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Post by theoracle on Mar 5, 2024 23:01:37 GMT
Very excited to hear this is coming back - keen to see who they’ll cast. Thinking about heading into Bath for this but am guessing if it’s touring, it’ll find its way to Richmond? General booking opens 6th March
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Mar 6, 2024 0:07:24 GMT
Fingers crossed it comes a bit closer to London! One of my favourites.
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Post by jek on Mar 6, 2024 10:03:52 GMT
Given it is a GCSE set text this must have good prospects. I remember my daughter's school group being taken from East London to Cambridge for a performance when they were studying it.
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Post by theatrefan62 on May 5, 2024 5:19:37 GMT
Has anyone heard anymore about the tour, or a return to London?
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Post by theoracle on May 5, 2024 10:04:23 GMT
Plymouth Theatre Royal (17 – 21 September 20240, Malvern Festival Theatre (15 – 19 October 2024) and Aberdeen His Majesty’s Theatre (22 – 26 October 2024) has been confirmed
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Post by theoracle on Jul 23, 2024 22:39:40 GMT
Well the PRs aren’t doing a very good job - fantastic cast on the website but nowhere else to be found:
Simon Rouse as HECTOR, Milo Twomey as HEADMASTER, Gillian Bevan as MRS LINTOTT, Bill Milner as IRWIN, Archie Christoph-Allen as DAKIN, Lewis Cornay as POSNER, Teddy Hinde as TIMMS, Yazdan Qafouri as SCRIPPS, Ned Costello as RUDGE, Mahesh Parmar as AKTHAR, Tashinga Bepete as CROWTHER, Curtis Kemlo as LOCKWOOD and Zrey Sholapurkar as ENSEMBLE.
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Post by Rory on Jul 23, 2024 22:57:48 GMT
Well the PRs aren’t doing a very good job - fantastic cast on the website but nowhere else to be found: Simon Rouse as HECTOR, Milo Twomey as HEADMASTER, Gillian Bevan as MRS LINTOTT, Bill Milner as IRWIN, Archie Christoph-Allen as DAKIN, Lewis Cornay as POSNER, Teddy Hinde as TIMMS, Yazdan Qafouri as SCRIPPS, Ned Costello as RUDGE, Mahesh Parmar as AKTHAR, Tashinga Bepete as CROWTHER, Curtis Kemlo as LOCKWOOD and Zrey Sholapurkar as ENSEMBLE. What's the website address please? |
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Post by theoracle on Jul 23, 2024 22:59:57 GMT
Well the PRs aren’t doing a very good job - fantastic cast on the website but nowhere else to be found: Simon Rouse as HECTOR, Milo Twomey as HEADMASTER, Gillian Bevan as MRS LINTOTT, Bill Milner as IRWIN, Archie Christoph-Allen as DAKIN, Lewis Cornay as POSNER, Teddy Hinde as TIMMS, Yazdan Qafouri as SCRIPPS, Ned Costello as RUDGE, Mahesh Parmar as AKTHAR, Tashinga Bepete as CROWTHER, Curtis Kemlo as LOCKWOOD and Zrey Sholapurkar as ENSEMBLE. What's the website address please? Just go to Bath theatre royal website and on the shows page, under cast and creative, it’s all there |
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Jul 24, 2024 13:43:13 GMT
Ah been meaning to book this, thanks for the reminder. Lewis Cornay will be a really great Posner I think.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jul 24, 2024 13:55:56 GMT
The full tour doesn't seem to have been announced yet either. Several gaps, unless they're really taking a few weeks break in sept/oct
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 24, 2024 14:04:51 GMT
What's the website address please? Just go to Bath theatre royal website and on the shows page, under cast and creative, it’s all there I can't see it when I go on there... |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jul 24, 2024 14:25:21 GMT
Just go to Bath theatre royal website and on the shows page, under cast and creative, it’s all there I can't see it when I go on there... Me neither. I wonder if someone released it too early and it's now taken down |
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 24, 2024 14:33:29 GMT
I can't see it when I go on there... Me neither. I wonder if someone released it too early and it's now taken down Maybe they want to announce it alongside the remainder of the tour dates - there's about 5 weeks missing. Leaving it very late! |
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 24, 2024 14:34:22 GMT
There is the rub with small tours, they’re poorly announced and not easy to discover.
I take it this will be and quoting another board member a ‘Waitrose Tour?’ Which is a great collective noun for that type of tour.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 24, 2024 14:38:49 GMT
There is the rub with small tours, they’re poorly announced and not easy to discover. I take it this will be and quoting another board member a ‘Waitrose Tour?’ Which is a great collective noun for that type of tour. I told an agent friend of mine about that phrase the other day and he'd never heard it before - much tickled! |
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Post by marob on Jul 24, 2024 14:44:16 GMT
Yes they’ve taken it down. Was definitely there on the cast tab last night.
Gillian Bevan as Mrs Lintott makes me happy as I always remember her as the headmistress in Teachers.
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Post by punxsutawney on Jul 24, 2024 17:36:59 GMT
A play by Yorkshire's most iconic playwright, set in Sheffield, celebrating its 20th anniversary. And yet the tour can't get any closer than Nottingham. What a sad state of affairs.
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Oct 28, 2024 12:36:28 GMT
Does anyone know of any deals for this in Richmond this week?
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Post by greatauntedna on Nov 2, 2024 23:22:10 GMT
I think this was a good production, but I found it really irritating.
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Post by littlefan on Nov 2, 2024 23:44:14 GMT
I think this was a good production, but I found it really irritating. Really interested to hear you say this as I felt similarly, but couldn't quite put my finger on why. Probably not helped in my case by the elderly couples all around who seemed simultaneously confused and disgusted by the content of the show. I spent the interval answering some of their questions on whether schools nowadays are really like that... which would have been easier to answer if a) the setting was present day,and b) if I was a sixth former instead of a thirty-something... 😂 |
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Post by Phantom of London on Nov 3, 2024 0:15:51 GMT
They have strange biology lessons in those pesky Grammar Schools, enough to get struck off.
Well I saw this last night. It is a fantastic play and I only wished saw the original, where the late Richard Griffiths gives one of the best ever performances to grace a stage anywhere. I have seen the play before but cannot think where though. So seeing this again last night in Richmond and the pivotal role is always going to be Hector, which was played brilliantly by Simon Rouse, he was the real stand out.
This play is a bit like other National productions like An Inspector Call, Curious Dog, War Horse, Lehman Brothers, which is a play that can and will go back in the West End, I wouldn’t be surprised if this goes back at some point.
4 Stars.
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Post by greatauntedna on Nov 3, 2024 0:59:10 GMT
I think this was a good production, but I found it really irritating. Really interested to hear you say this as I felt similarly, but couldn't quite put my finger on why. Probably not helped in my case by the elderly couples all around who seemed simultaneously confused and disgusted by the content of the show. I spent the interval answering some of their questions on whether schools nowadays are really like that... which would have been easier to answer if a) the setting was present day,and b) if I was a sixth former instead of a thirty-something... 😂 Maybe a combination of the literary references that went over my head, the schoolboy banter, the musical interludes and the assumption we’re invested in the boys from the off without getting to know them. And then only really Posner gets fleshed out. |
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Post by smithfield on Nov 3, 2024 2:05:35 GMT
I think this was a good production, but I found it really irritating. Really interested to hear you say this as I felt similarly, but couldn't quite put my finger on why. Probably not helped in my case by the elderly couples all around who seemed simultaneously confused and disgusted by the content of the show. I spent the interval answering some of their questions on whether schools nowadays are really like that... which would have been easier to answer if a) the setting was present day,and b) if I was a sixth former instead of a thirty-something... 😂 Those clueless, benighted OLD PEOPLE! Why don't they just die--or at least stop going to (and (supporting) the theatre already??? I'm being sarcastic, inspired by your snide, intolerant remarks. Imagine substituting 'elderly' with any number of groups that might not be as with-it concerning contemporary manners and mores as you. |
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Post by sph on Nov 3, 2024 2:15:06 GMT
Really interested to hear you say this as I felt similarly, but couldn't quite put my finger on why. Probably not helped in my case by the elderly couples all around who seemed simultaneously confused and disgusted by the content of the show. I spent the interval answering some of their questions on whether schools nowadays are really like that... which would have been easier to answer if a) the setting was present day,and b) if I was a sixth former instead of a thirty-something... 😂 Those clueless, benighted OLD PEOPLE! Why don't they just die--or at least stop going to (and (supporting) the theatre already??? I'm being sarcastic, inspired by your snide, intolerant remarks. Imagine substituting 'elderly' with any number of groups that might not be as with-it concerning contemporary manners and mores as you. The poster reported on exactly the older people around them responded, and even said that they asked them questions about schools nowadays and how modern schooling might relate to the show. I don't believe those remarks are in any way snide or intolerant, but they have clearly poked a nerve that was very close to the surface in you... |
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