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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 23:14:37 GMT
Directed by Nicholas Hytner. From July 11
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Post by Jon on Feb 23, 2018 1:12:07 GMT
Hytner is really attracting top playwright for the Bridge with Martin McDonagh and now Alan Bennett although the latter wasn't a huge surprise considering Hytner and Bennett have a working relationship
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Post by zahidf on Feb 23, 2018 10:18:16 GMT
Tickets sorted for this one on the advanced membership
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Post by bordeaux on Feb 23, 2018 10:29:30 GMT
Tickets sorted for this one on the advanced membership Me too. Very easy. I must admit I wasn't sure what level of membership I was and couldn't see where to find out, but it let me buy them OK. A coup for the theatre, though perhaps not an unexpected one. Hytner does seem to have a lot of stuff in the pipeline, though a couple of them are novel adaptations, which I don't see the point of. Was hoping for news of the SRB Bach play at some stage. I wonder if his film career will take off after his raves in Death of Stalin. I see he is in a Mexican film that has just been shown at the Berlin film festival, Museum, which sounds rather good. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 10:29:34 GMT
I know it marks me out as an old person, but I'm very happy to hear about this!
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Post by zahidf on Feb 23, 2018 10:44:48 GMT
Tickets sorted for this one on the advanced membership Me too. Very easy. I must admit I wasn't sure what level of membership I was and couldn't see where to find out, but it let me buy them OK. A coup for the theatre, though perhaps not an unexpected one. Hytner does seem to have a lot of stuff in the pipeline, though a couple of them are novel adaptations, which I don't see the point of. Was hoping for news of the SRB Bach play at some stage. I wonder if his film career will take off after his raves in Death of Stalin. I see he is in a Mexican film that has just been shown at the Berlin film festival, Museum, which sounds rather good. Bridge seems to be a mix of the big stuff which sells well and the smaller stuff which may not do. Ambitious at least |
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Post by Snciole on Feb 23, 2018 11:14:22 GMT
I am wondering if this will lure Alex Jennings back to the theatre but his TV/Film career seems to have finally taken off.
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Post by callum on Feb 23, 2018 13:16:30 GMT
Yes, this does seem ripe for casting some older ‘veterans’ in the nursing home patients
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Post by MrBunbury on Feb 23, 2018 13:17:27 GMT
Yes, this does seem ripe for casting some older ‘veterans’ in the nursing home patients Will Maggie Smith be back for her friend Alan Bennett? |
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Post by Jon on Feb 23, 2018 13:45:24 GMT
I notice they have Monday performances for this and My Name is Lucy Barton so I wonder if Sunday matinees have been quietly axed from My Name is Lucy Barton onwards.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 14:15:42 GMT
Oh marvellous. It'll be nice to see Frances de la Tour back on stage.
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Post by dani on Feb 23, 2018 14:46:17 GMT
I hope this is better than People.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 23, 2018 14:57:37 GMT
The Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward???
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 15:34:17 GMT
Another play by Alan Bennett... Allelujah!
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Post by Snciole on Feb 23, 2018 15:36:03 GMT
Yes, this does seem ripe for casting some older ‘veterans’ in the nursing home patients Alex Jennings is 60 now and once you hit that age your playing age has no limit, even if your vanity does. |
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Post by lonlad on Feb 23, 2018 17:19:11 GMT
Touche re Dani above. PEOPLE really was the pits.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 17:25:03 GMT
Touche re Dani above. PEOPLE really was the pits. Aren't they always? That's why I generally look down on them as a matter of course. |
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Post by Rory on Feb 23, 2018 17:39:03 GMT
I hope this is better than People. I see this new play mentions a film crew. Isn't that what People (which wasn't great at all) was about as well? |
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Post by sf on Feb 23, 2018 17:56:31 GMT
Touche re Dani above. PEOPLE really was the pits. Aren't they always? That's why I generally look down on them as a matter of course. Now, now. Remember, people who need people... are the luckiest people... |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 23, 2018 19:14:40 GMT
People was dreadful. Hytner really is determined to make the bridge the same boring old venue he made the NT at the end of his tenure. Same dreary Alan Bennett’s , probably starting Jennings and De La Tour, lots of polite tittering in the stalls at an unfunny script.
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Post by altamont on Feb 23, 2018 19:23:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 20:49:20 GMT
People was dreadful. Hytner really is determined to make the bridge the same boring old venue he made the NT at the end of his tenure. Same dreary Alan Bennett’s , probably starting Jennings and De La Tour, lots of polite tittering in the stalls at an unfunny script. We don’t know who it will be starting [sic] at the moment, but whoever it does, we’ll be there at the Bridge in our twin-sets and pearls politely tittering in the stalls. And you’ll have to guffaw elsewhere for a bit. Because theatre is for everyone. Isn’t it? |
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 23, 2018 23:46:10 GMT
I am wondering if this will lure Alex Jennings back to the theatre but his TV/Film career seems to have finally taken off. Hope so, love him. Had hoped he might return to the RSC. |
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Post by lonlad on Feb 24, 2018 1:28:26 GMT
altamont, the critics were generally kind to PEOPLE coz they were scared not to be (Libby Purves gave it 5 stars if you please). Actual people - remember them LOL? - knew better.
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Post by lou105 on Feb 24, 2018 8:59:40 GMT
I am wondering if this will lure Alex Jennings back to the theatre but his TV/Film career seems to have finally taken off. Hope so, love him. Had hoped he might return to the RSC. I guess that will partly depend on how much they're doing with his character in The Crown in the next series. I can't see them bothering to recast for age, as they are with the Queen and Phillip. |
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