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Post by schuttep on Feb 1, 2017 9:40:27 GMT
So, another 12th Night to add to the National Theatre's. Don't they co-ordinate?!
And another Christmas Carol after the West End version Christmas 2015 and the multitude done year after year before that...
Apart from that, a decent announcement.
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Post by moelhywel on Feb 1, 2017 9:47:58 GMT
Twelfth Night seems to be part of the Christmas season as when you look at the trailer it comes up with Christmas Season and then shows Twelfth Night followed by A Christmas Carol.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 9:49:33 GMT
Just Coriolanus and Dido for me I think so a cheapish season  |
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Post by zahidf on Feb 1, 2017 9:54:08 GMT
Imperium sounds really good. Any ideas about dates yet?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 10:05:21 GMT
Imperium sounds really good. Any ideas about dates yet? Imperium: The Cicero Plays Swan Theatre Press Day (matinee and evening) 7 Dec Part 1: Conspirator 16 Nov - 10 Feb Part 2: Dictator 23 Nov - 19 Feb |
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Post by altamont on Feb 1, 2017 10:06:12 GMT
RSC website has all the dates
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 10:07:42 GMT
Twelfth Night seems to be part of the Christmas season as when you look at the trailer it comes up with Christmas Season and then shows Twelfth Night followed by A Christmas Carol. Twelfth Night 2 Nov - 24 Feb A Christmas Carol 27 Nov - 4 Feb |
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Post by zahidf on Feb 1, 2017 10:15:24 GMT
cool thanks. Any ideas on public booking dates?
Ill try to do an all day imperium show
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Post by CG on the loose on Feb 1, 2017 10:17:10 GMT
cool thanks. Any ideas on public booking dates? Ill try to do an all day imperium show Members get up to 21 days ahead of public booking, so sometime early to mid-March? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 10:44:30 GMT
cool thanks. Any ideas on public booking dates? Mon 13 Mar |
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Post by bordeaux on Feb 1, 2017 11:12:39 GMT
I don't want to see novels on stage; I want to see plays!
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 1, 2017 11:29:44 GMT
Just Coriolanus and Dido for me I think so a cheapish season Snap! |
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Post by altamont on Feb 1, 2017 12:30:15 GMT
I don't want to see novels on stage; I want to see plays! Normally yes, but Mike Poulton and the RSC did a pretty decent job with Wolf Hall |
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Post by David J on Feb 1, 2017 12:33:19 GMT
Funny, I got the audiobook of Robert Harris' Imperium for cheap on Audible only last week. Coincidence?
I'm guessing that Twelfth Night will be similar to LLL/LLW. Can't complain with Christopher Lucombe directing
Another young actor taking on a challenging role? Here's hoping Sope Dirisu does a great job like Paapa Esiedu
Another Marlowe play to tick off the list? Yes please
Luckily I'll get to see the Mischief plays at the end of the run in June. Finally I'll get to see the new Other Place
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Post by altamont on May 3, 2017 17:45:34 GMT
Ade Edmondson has just been on Radio 2 - he mentioned that he is playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night
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Post by Jan on May 3, 2017 19:37:21 GMT
Ade Edmondson has just been on Radio 2 - he mentioned that he is playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night Oh God. Wasn't there an actor available ? |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 22:58:33 GMT
When will the cast be announced for A Christmas Carol? I am looking forward to seeing who will play Scrooge.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 0:41:48 GMT
Christopher Fairburn would always make a good Scrooge I thought. Might Sir Antony Sher fancy a crack at it, he has done Shylock so can play an excellent miser and could be a part he might have a bit of fun with. Marley is also interesting part, sure they will find a good veteran Associate Artist or two who might fancy the role.
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Post by Jan on May 4, 2017 5:53:39 GMT
Christopher Fairburn would always make a good Scrooge I thought. Might Sir Antony Sher fancy a crack at it, he has done Shylock so can play an excellent miser and could be a part he might have a bit of fun with. Marley is also interesting part, sure they will find a good veteran Associate Artist or two who might fancy the role. Sher was poor as Shylock. If he gets the Scrooge role it will just fuel further claims of nepotism. |
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Post by martin1965 on May 4, 2017 5:57:19 GMT
Christopher Fairburn would always make a good Scrooge I thought. Might Sir Antony Sher fancy a crack at it, he has done Shylock so can play an excellent miser and could be a part he might have a bit of fun with. Marley is also interesting part, sure they will find a good veteran Associate Artist or two who might fancy the role. Sher was poor as Shylock. If he gets the Scrooge role it will just fuel further claims of nepotism. I thought the plan was for the same actor to play Malvolio and Scrooge. Ade Edmondson? Seriously😵 I obvs disagree with you Jan re Sher, have you liked him in anything? |
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Post by martin1965 on May 4, 2017 5:58:13 GMT
Christopher Fairburn would always make a good Scrooge I thought. Might Sir Antony Sher fancy a crack at it, he has done Shylock so can play an excellent miser and could be a part he might have a bit of fun with. Marley is also interesting part, sure they will find a good veteran Associate Artist or two who might fancy the role. Sorry, who he? |
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Post by Jan on May 4, 2017 6:56:43 GMT
Sher was poor as Shylock. If he gets the Scrooge role it will just fuel further claims of nepotism. I thought the plan was for the same actor to play Malvolio and Scrooge. Ade Edmondson? Seriously😵 I obvs disagree with you Jan re Sher, have you liked him in anything? With Edmonson you'd also get the same performance for each too. I have disliked Sher in more things than I've liked him in but I thought he was good in: The History Man (TV, 1981) Tartuffe (1983) Richard III (1985) A few Shakespeares I thought he was OK in: King Lear (1983) Macbeth (1999) Winters Tale (1999) One or two other things too where he has played an eye-rolling psychopath, the Roman Actor (2002) maybe. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 4, 2017 7:24:08 GMT
Surely Scrooge will be played by a female actor...
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Post by Jan on May 4, 2017 7:43:47 GMT
Of all the Shakespeare plays Twelfth Night seems to be the one the RSC have screwed up the most, from the car crash one directed by Griff Rhys Jones, and the one with Sher inexplicably as a Greek Orthodox priest Malvolio (which even Sher himself was ashamed of) and their efforts to put TV sitcom stars in as Malvolio which have failed due to terrible productions (John Lithgow) or terrible acting (Richard Wilson). Even the rest of them in the last 40 years were only moderately good. The last really good production was before my time maybe in 1969 (Donald Sinden) or 1978 (McKellen etc.). Can you think of another play where they have so consistently failed ?
Trevor Nunn says it is a play that is impossible to cast for the theatre, so he made a film of it and that was terrible too.
I've seen a few very good productions of it elsewhere which makes their failure more surprising.
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Post by martin1965 on May 4, 2017 10:44:28 GMT
I thought the plan was for the same actor to play Malvolio and Scrooge. Ade Edmondson? Seriously😵 I obvs disagree with you Jan re Sher, have you liked him in anything? With Edmonson you'd also get the same performance for each too. I have disliked Sher in more things than I've liked him in but I thought he was good in: The History Man (TV, 1981) Tartuffe (1983) Richard III (1985) A few Shakespeares I thought he was OK in: King Lear (1983) Macbeth (1999) Winters Tale (1999) One or two other things too where he has played an eye-rolling psychopath, the Roman Actor (2002) maybe. Hmmm asbi think i have said before i simply dont understand why you persist in seeing him when you dont like him? Eg i dont like Mark Rylance so i dont book for him. I liked Lithgow tho it wasnt a great production. I havent seen a few of them but it is clearly done too often. It is of course a popular play but difficult to cast due to so many medium roles. If Edmondson is confirmed i will prob give this a miss. Prob best TN i have seen was the Briers one directed by Branagh at the Riverside Studios 30 years ago! |
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