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Post by nash16 on Jan 3, 2018 22:33:32 GMT
A welcome return for an audience favourite. Full summer run.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 3, 2018 22:42:59 GMT
Always a tricky play to pull off. It is so wordy in places that it needs a really amazing central partnership to make it work. Orlando is one of the worst male leads in the plays. Also getting the tone right for the pre Arden scenes is vital. The Aberg version for the RSC was great in the forest but really didn't work for the opening.
Not one of the comedies that I will rush to see unless someone really interesting is in the lead.
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Post by Peach on Jan 3, 2018 22:53:37 GMT
Alongside Regent's Park's version.
Confer you people!!
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Post by zahidf on Jan 3, 2018 23:02:10 GMT
Not a fan of this one. Depending on cast, will prob give it a miss
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 23:14:04 GMT
One I wanted to see but in competition now with Regent's Park. It's all down to who the most interesting director is.
Until I see who's directing them this doesn't give much of a clue as to what they will be like, presumably the announcement is imminent.
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Post by Peach on Jan 3, 2018 23:43:39 GMT
Max Webster is directing at Regent's Park. He did the Globe's touring Much Ado a couple of years ago which is one of my favourite versions.
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Post by martin1965 on Jan 4, 2018 7:09:25 GMT
Not a fan of this one. Depending on cast, will prob give it a miss Nor me tbh, just dont get it! Im a big Shakey fan but you cant like 'em all☺ |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 9:33:39 GMT
Didn't Michelle Terry star in this at the Wooden Doughnut a couple of years ago? I seem to recall it was delightful.
I hope it's better than that dreadful Rosalie Craig version though.
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Post by peggs on Jan 4, 2018 22:56:04 GMT
Didn't Michelle Terry star in this at the Wooden Doughnut a couple of years ago? I seem to recall it was delightful. I hope it's better than that dreadful Rosalie Craig version though. Yep a few years back and it was lovely, I skipped the later having seen the former. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 7:57:51 GMT
According to the Guardian article on the season, this will have two co-directors and the cast will be an ensemble who will all get together and decide among themselves who is playing which role. Same deal for Hamlet. So this could be amazing or it could be horrific, but either way, at least it shouldn't end up a carbon copy of the last two major productions I've seen at the Globe.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 5, 2018 9:24:19 GMT
According to the Guardian article on the season, this will have two co-directors and the cast will be an ensemble who will all get together and decide among themselves who is playing which role. Same deal for Hamlet. So this could be amazing or it could be horrific, but either way, at least it shouldn't end up a carbon copy of the last two major productions I've seen at the Globe. That would work if the ensemble didn't happen to contain their boss. It won't be a level playing field as there will be an inevitable (unconscious) bias in favour of MT. At the end of the day, audiences don't really care about the process of how a show cane together, they care about the production. I can appreciate the thought behind it but it doesn't strike me as authentic or necessarily condusive to good theatre-making. Even with the companies of players who would have originally played these texts, there was a hierarchy of actors, a clear sense of strengths and weaknesses and expectations as to how casting would happen. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 10:36:45 GMT
Oh good heavens. What next? Drawing straws to see who gets top billing? A game of bingo and whoever calls "house!" gets to pick their role? Bare knuckle fighting to see who gets to play the scene stealing comic role? A game of Blind Man's Buff to pick the gimmick for the next production?
Granted, having said all that, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when an actor doesn't get the part they want and is merely given Servant #3. With no lines.
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Post by lynette on Jan 5, 2018 15:06:34 GMT
This is so obviously what the Mischief Theatre do all the time! And we will see who is happy in her role and who is not, eh? Can’t wait. Presume they are all getting the same salary?
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Post by peggs on Jan 5, 2018 15:37:59 GMT
Oh crikey Really?! Have to agree with above, could be great or awful and I don't really care how they get there, it's the end product in bothered by. And if they decide it so we get to watch a good actor get 2 lines and a poorer one lots? Glad for the advanced warning.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 16:13:41 GMT
I get the impression that the planning of this season has been terribly rushed and that no one yet has much of a clue exactly what will happen.
And the season announcement itself is astonishingly muddled and obscure. The printed season brochure seems to have gone to press before the finalisation of many details which yesterday slipped into the public realm, if you read every single press report and put it all together. In an 84=page brochure, there's not a single mention of Mark Rylance, for example! You need to be Sherlock Holmes to even begin to get a partial grasp of what was supposedly announced.
I think I read somewhere (but can't now find it) that The Globe Ensemble, presenting Hamlet and As You Like It, is only 12-strong (and this may include the directors and designer - perhaps they'll be the last two or three members left when the group's decided the casting)? In any case, it's fair to assume everyone will have more than two lines!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 16:28:32 GMT
Pearce Quigley is in the ensemble. I want to see him as Hamlet or maybe Celia, that would really shake things up! Bet he gets Gravedigger and Touchstone though.
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Post by nash16 on May 17, 2018 21:48:11 GMT
Press Night for this tonight!
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Post by nash16 on May 18, 2018 11:08:10 GMT
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Post by peggs on Jun 26, 2018 19:05:25 GMT
Saw this too and whilst I preferred Hamlet it did send you out in most satisfying Globeque grin on face way. I saw this play last time it was done at the globe so invariably was comparing it to that. Jack Laskey is really rather special as Rosalind, he scene steals most of the time he's on stage apart from when he's paired with Nadia Nadarajah when their scenes sometimes done almost entirely in sign language really ring strongly. Some of my fellow audience who were new to the play were somewhat confused, not so much by the gender blind casting but more the doubling up or roles especially when you went from court to the forest and the cast did a quick clock reversal to signify they were someone else, I suspect I would have been a bit at sea as well if I hadn't seen it before. Again it could probably do with a clearer directional overview but everyone seemed pleased enough with what they got.
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