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Post by daniel on Nov 30, 2017 23:53:19 GMT
West Yorkshire Playhouse from May 12.
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 30, 2017 23:57:01 GMT
Just what the world was crying out for!
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 1, 2017 17:15:10 GMT
This will form part of the WYP 2018 season being anmounced Monday. Anyone heard anything else?
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Post by bamaboy on Dec 2, 2017 6:17:10 GMT
I just can't imagine how'd you'd adapt this for the stage, or why. I mean, it's a women who sees something happening from a train...and most of it is done through narration and the big reveal happens mostly in flashbacks.....
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 6, 2018 15:53:17 GMT
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Post by Marwood on Apr 6, 2018 16:45:47 GMT
Erm, isn't she a bit old to be labelled 'The Girl'?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 6, 2018 17:24:01 GMT
Erm, isn't she a bit old to be labelled 'The Girl'? Emily Blunt 35, Gill Halfpenny 43. |
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Post by lynette on Apr 6, 2018 17:26:46 GMT
Erm, isn't she a bit old to be labelled 'The Girl'? Careful. Just saying. |
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Post by Marwood on Apr 6, 2018 17:29:36 GMT
Don't mean to upset the ladies on here, but she's only four years younger than me, and I've gone well beyond the point where I could label myself as 'The Boy'
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 17:34:01 GMT
Marwood is precisely right, it's weird and infantilising to refer to a grown adult woman as a girl. You can sort of get away with it up until maybe 25 as an absolute max, but it doesn't really do anyone any favours to insist on using the word girl where you could accurately say woman or even lady.
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Post by theatremadness on Apr 6, 2018 17:37:07 GMT
For reference, Rachel (the lead character, who Jill Halfpenny is playing) is 32 according to the plot on Wikipedia.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 6, 2018 18:29:12 GMT
And if we're going to moan about anybody, shouldn't it be Paula Hawkins, rather than Jill Halfpenny?
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Post by TallPaul on May 15, 2018 15:41:50 GMT
Opening night tomorrow. I quite fancy seeing it, but I'm going to wait for the reviews. I don't imagine there will be many, but something is better than nothing. 3 stars or more and I'll probably take a chance on a cheap seat.
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Post by foxa on May 15, 2018 20:11:30 GMT
Interested to hear how it works - doesn't seem an easy fit for the stage, but you never know.
Re: 'Girl.' There have been some articles about why so many successful novels have 'girl' in the title: Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Shining Girls, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Girl in the Red Coat, The Girls, How to Build a Girl, etc.
Don't know that they reached any conclusions - but one article said 'Girl' was a more 'optimistic' word than 'Woman.' So - go figure.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 20:20:07 GMT
I'm one of these joyless types who reads plot synopses of books and films that she never intends to read or watch just so she can justify to herself never reading/watching them (occasionally being intrigued enough by the outline to admit her wrongness and read/watch the thing after all), and if "optimism" is what Paula Hawkins was aiming for, she should've written an entirely different book all together...
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Post by foxa on May 16, 2018 7:04:20 GMT
I think it's more a marketing thing. {Spoiler - click to view}
Girls are seen as innocent so less threatening than women. And - this was one of the big points of the article - 'girls' in the titles of books/films tend to survive. So readers/viewers can watch them more optimistically. Even if (age-wise) it's hard to argue that a character is still a girl. |
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Post by viewfromthewing on May 20, 2018 20:59:17 GMT
Several 1* reviews floating around for this...
Has anyone seen it?
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Post by d'James on May 21, 2018 5:22:39 GMT
I really didn’t like the film, but it seems like there’s a good story in there. Maybe it should just stay as a book.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 26, 2018 5:58:12 GMT
Telegraph “As appealing as a British Rail sandwich” one star 🤭
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 6, 2018 13:02:48 GMT
Despite the far from generous reviews for the Leeds production, this is going out on tour in the new year. Samantha Womack will be playing Jill Halfpenny!
Wonder what they'll put on the posters?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 30, 2018 18:43:39 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 30, 2018 18:44:33 GMT
On sale now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 23:56:17 GMT
Anyone been to see the tour yet?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 0:00:47 GMT
I'm considering going at the end of March when it's in Edinburgh, as the company who own the theatre do good deals for students and teenagers with £10 standby tickets. Might try and get one for this if any are available.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 2:08:54 GMT
I'm considering going at the end of March when it's in Edinburgh, as the company who own the theatre do good deals for students and teenagers with £10 standby tickets. Might try and get one for this if any are available. If you do please report back 😊 |
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