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Post by partytentdown on Oct 11, 2016 10:39:42 GMT
As well as Angels in America and Follies:
Salome, directed by Yael Farber (Olivier)
Common, by DC Moore (Olivier, Headlong co-pro)
Consent, by Nina Raine
The Barbershop Chronicles by Inua Ellams
Mosquitos, by Lucy Kirkwood, starring Olivia Colman
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 10:44:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 10:56:37 GMT
Looks interesting. And woohoo! Olivia Colman!!  |
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Post by stefy69 on Oct 11, 2016 11:00:52 GMT
For me the Salome sounds intriguing....
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Post by charliec on Oct 11, 2016 11:02:16 GMT
First season in a while that i'm really excited about and will probably book for everything. Particularly excited for Mosquitoes, Olivia Coleman and Physics is right up my street!
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Post by cirque on Oct 11, 2016 11:04:02 GMT
what a season....with directors like Ivo Van Hove and Yael Farber the NT really is reflecting the worlds leading directors and auteurs.With Follies bringing back Staunton and Quast its all rather amazing.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 11, 2016 12:28:31 GMT
Other than Angels and Follies, its a yawn from me!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 13:10:26 GMT
My Country, the post-referendum verbatim show from Carol Ann Duffy and Rufus Norris, will tour to small-scale venues.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 14:12:32 GMT
I like the sound of the season as a whole, but I'm hoping the stuff in the Dorfman proves to be missable, as the auditorium itself is a big fat NO for me.
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2016 14:22:42 GMT
Other than Angels and Follies, its a yawn from me! Yep but of course we're not Norris' target audience so no surprise. Not as bad as the Arcola though who haven't put on anything I've been interested in for years. Vaguely interested in how the handle the EU thing given not a single actor, director or playwright supported Leave. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 14:23:48 GMT
I like the sound of the season as a whole, but I'm hoping the stuff in the Dorfman proves to be missable, as the auditorium itself is a big fat NO for me. Me too. And I also hate it when I mince through the main doors into the lobby and head to the ticket/card machine thingy and as I'm about to start having a sniff around the bookshop or head to the bar for a cheeky G&T, it's then that I realise that the theatre is around the corner and I have to walk back outside and schlepp around the way to end up sitting on a high chair. It's just not on. I once demanded that Rufus start a new fund for a travelator that takes you all the way there from the main building. No reply as yet. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 14:39:11 GMT
Other than Angels and Follies, its a yawn from me! Yep but of course we're not Norris' target audience so no surprise. Not as bad as the Arcola though who haven't put on anything I've been interested in for years. Vaguely interested in how the handle the EU thing given not a single actor, director or playwright supported Leave. Would've thought you two'd also welcome Simon Godwin's two Olivier Shakespeares bookending the year? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 14:41:00 GMT
Would've thought you two'd also welcome Simon Godwin's two Olivier Shakespeares bookending the year? And Common is about a big historical subject, so might appeal to you both? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 14:41:47 GMT
And The Barbershop Chronicles could remind you of your youth when you had hair?
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Post by MrBunbury on Oct 11, 2016 15:40:32 GMT
For me the Salome sounds intriguing.... Should we start a book on whether Salome will be male, the "head" of John The Baptist may not be the anatomical part expected, and the whole thing has been moved to a pub on a social housing development near Nuneaton? Or am I being overly cynical? If you are curious, you can read a review of the production when it opened in the US (http://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/BWW-Review-Stunning-and-Provocative-SALOME-at-the-Shakespeare-Theatre-Company-20151017). I haven't read it because I like to keep the surprise element there. |
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Post by kathryn on Oct 11, 2016 16:21:34 GMT
For me the Salome sounds intriguing.... Should we start a book on whether Salome will be male, the "head" of John The Baptist may not be the anatomical part expected, and the whole thing has been moved to a pub on a social housing development near Nuneaton? Or am I being overly cynical? Surely more likely that 'John' the Baptist will be a woman than Salome will be a man? Don't they have a commitment to increase their number of female leads? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 16:30:33 GMT
Should we start a book on whether Salome will be male, the "head" of John The Baptist may not be the anatomical part expected, and the whole thing has been moved to a pub on a social housing development near Nuneaton? Or am I being overly cynical? Surely more likely that 'John' the Baptist will be a woman than Salome will be a man? Don't they have a commitment to increase their number of female leads? Marianne John-Baptiste? |
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 11, 2016 17:22:22 GMT
Yep but of course we're not Norris' target audience so no surprise. Not as bad as the Arcola though who haven't put on anything I've been interested in for years. Vaguely interested in how the handle the EU thing given not a single actor, director or playwright supported Leave. Would've thought you two'd also welcome Simon Godwin's two Olivier Shakespeares bookending the year? Oh haha! But no, i can see A&C at sua and 12th Night sounds meh. Brave putting it in the Olivier tho. |
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 11, 2016 17:28:54 GMT
And The Barbershop Chronicles could remind you of your youth when you had hair? How very amusing! Jan, are we a couple?😉 |
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 11, 2016 20:51:25 GMT
Some exciting things here (Follies, Salome, Lucy Kirkwood, perhaps the other new plays) but nothing from the rest of Europe? I know they're doing Hedda Gabler (after a fashion) this autumn, but it seems to be that enough of our culture is Anglo-American already without the National joining in.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 22:04:48 GMT
but nothing from the rest of Europe? Dublin Oldschool from the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Europe. Us/Them from BRONKS, Belgium, Europe. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 12, 2016 6:00:15 GMT
Yep but of course we're not Norris' target audience so no surprise. Not as bad as the Arcola though who haven't put on anything I've been interested in for years. Vaguely interested in how the handle the EU thing given not a single actor, director or playwright supported Leave. Would've thought you two'd also welcome Simon Godwin's two Olivier Shakespeares bookending the year? Personally I find A&C a terribly dull play (it should stop shortly after Antony dies) and the thought of it with the charisma-free Fiennes in the lead makes the prospect even more dismal, I assume Godwin will be casting Greg Hicks as Cleopatra which won't help. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 8:14:48 GMT
Personally I find A&C a terribly dull play (it should stop shortly after Antony dies) and the thought of it with the charisma-free Fiennes in the lead makes the prospect even more dismal, I assume Godwin will be casting Greg Hicks as Cleopatra which won't help. Okay, so you have personal reasons not to see A&C. But you're still the target audience for the Shakespeares. Rufus Norris gave a couple of lengthy media interviews published yesterday where he was very careful to say in both that he's trying to broaden the audience, not to lose any of the old audience. He also made the point that everyone can't like everything, which should be obvious but apparently isn't. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 9:01:04 GMT
Would've thought you two'd also welcome Simon Godwin's two Olivier Shakespeares bookending the year? Personally I find A&C a terribly dull play (it should stop shortly after Antony dies) and the thought of it with the charisma-free Fiennes in the lead makes the prospect even more dismal, I assume Godwin will be casting Greg Hicks as Cleopatra which won't help. I'd do it the other way round, I find most productions lift off when we're allowed to stop caring about Antony. He's SUCH a bore, no wonder we're finding it weird that they've announced their Antony and not their Cleo. |
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 12, 2016 9:12:05 GMT
but nothing from the rest of Europe? Dublin Oldschool from the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Europe. Us/Them from BRONKS, Belgium, Europe. Point taken, though Ireland is still part of the Anglosphere. Us/Them sounds great. I do regret the absence of big European names, though. When was the last time the NT did Molière or Marivaux or Racine (2009 was Helen Mirren's Phaedra)? Or Goethe, Schiller, Schnitzler? Or Calderon or Lope de Vega? |
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