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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 14:25:36 GMT
Announcement of Kwame Kwei-Armah's first season coming on Tuesday with friends' booking opening the same day
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 12, 2018 14:38:34 GMT
Looking forward to the announcement
Although with booking opening immediatly means it could be difficult to plan for a group of friends to go and bag the best tickets
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Post by zahidf on Apr 12, 2018 15:59:28 GMT
Musical Twelfth Night is one of them I think from previous postings on here!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 12, 2018 17:03:28 GMT
Musical Twelfth Night is one of them I think from previous postings on here! If it is both plays and musicals then shouldn’t this thread be in General? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 17:05:58 GMT
The mods find it more useful if you use the Report function to ask the question rather than howling it into the void.
Personally I've got my fingers crossed for Beneatha's Place...
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Post by zahidf on Apr 12, 2018 19:10:42 GMT
Musical Twelfth Night is one of them I think from previous postings on here! If it is both plays and musicals then shouldn’t this thread be in General? I thought the general rule was a spin off thread for individual shows? |
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Post by lynette on Apr 13, 2018 9:53:45 GMT
I haven't checked the repertoire for the YV but it is usually dealt with in plays. If they put on a musical, then someone can start a thread for it in musicals. By the title it would seem that MND, the musical might be dealt with in either place! Helpful, aren’t I? I’m guessing the OMGs in plays and the What funs in Musicals. Go with the flow.
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Post by partytentdown on Apr 13, 2018 10:12:17 GMT
I always get nervous when a new season is so heavily branded around the person programming it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 12:21:45 GMT
I haven't checked the repertoire for the YV but it is usually dealt with in plays. If they put on a musical, then someone can start a thread for it in musicals. By the title it would seem that MND, the musical might be dealt with in either place! Helpful, aren’t I? I’m guessing the OMGs in plays and the What funs in Musicals. Go with the flow. Yes, similarly the main YV thread for last year is in Plays, with a thread for Fun Home in Musicals. Which makes sense I think! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 14:22:29 GMT
I always get nervous when a new season is so heavily branded around the person programming it. I get nervous because I can't be faffed to go for his full name so would prefer KKA. But if you say it too quickly you could run into all sorts of other problems. |
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Post by zahidf on Apr 17, 2018 8:09:49 GMT
1. A musical adaptation of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub’s Twelfth Night, prev shown at the Public Theater in New York
2. The Convert by Danai Gurira of Black Panther fame
3. Kate Hewitt directing Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
October to March in the main house
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Post by Jan on Apr 17, 2018 8:29:02 GMT
1. A musical adaptation of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub’s Twelfth Night, prev shown at the Public Theater in New York 2. The Convert by Danai Gurira of Black Panther fame 3. Kate Hewitt directing Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train October to March in the main house Yawn. Following Norris in his devotion to USA theatre - all 3 with a USA writer credited - what is it with their obsession about USA ? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 8:33:26 GMT
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Post by zahidf on Apr 17, 2018 8:35:13 GMT
I saw it at the gate: it is superb
All first previews will be £5.00
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 8:58:04 GMT
I saw it at the gate: it is superb
All first previews will be £5.00
Far inferior to Eclipsed What a stupid choice for a main house |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 9:05:30 GMT
Yawn. Following Norris in his devotion to USA theatre - all 3 with a USA writer credited - what is it with their obsession about USA ? That's terribly unfair. There are actually 4 plays, all with a USA writer credited - other one is "Thing of Dry Hours" by Naomi Wallace in the Clore. youngviclondon.wordpress.com/Very odd, does feel like he's just imported a season from his previous job! Also this means that since The Jungle finished its run in Jan 2018, every main house show until March 2019 is from a US writer. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 9:24:32 GMT
Gosh, almost like his recent professional history has put him far more in touch with US writers than UK writers, how strange. Shall we give it more than four productions before writing off an entire tenure with a childish "Yawn"?
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Post by zahidf on Apr 17, 2018 9:24:42 GMT
I saw it at the gate: it is superb
All first previews will be £5.00
Far inferior to Eclipsed What a stupid choice for a main house A critically acclaimed play with one of the stars from the third biggest films of all time?
Makes perfect sense for the main house
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Post by zahidf on Apr 17, 2018 9:25:35 GMT
Gosh, almost like his recent professional history has put him far more in touch with US writers than UK writers, how strange. Shall we give it more than four productions before writing off an entire tenure with a childish "Yawn"? I agree. They haven't announced the small space shows yet either, and he has said he wants more European shows for his second season. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 9:26:55 GMT
Oh poo. I misread the 'Twelfth Night' adaptation as by Shania Twain and got all excited with what she was going to do with 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman'. Then I read it more carefully.
Sorry Kwame, that don't impress me much.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 17, 2018 9:29:59 GMT
Only thing that caught my eye there is Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train, but that isn't on for another 10 months so not going to bother booking that far in advance (certainly not without knowing who is supposed to be in it), otherwise: yawn, indeed. Something makes me think we're going to get a lot of similarly dull, worthy sounding productions at the YV for the foreseeable future.
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Post by Jan on Apr 17, 2018 9:39:05 GMT
Gosh, almost like his recent professional history has put him far more in touch with US writers than UK writers, how strange. Shall we give it more than four productions before writing off an entire tenure with a childish "Yawn"? But he announced he was specifically seeking input from the local community to see what they wanted at the YV. Seems they must have said they wanted to see more stuff from America and about the American experience ? My opinion is his first programme (and not his entire tenure as you are pretending I said to fuel your faux outrage) is boring. Am I not allowed to say that ? All we know so far about your opinion is you disapprove of my opinion - not very constructive or interesting for anyone else. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 9:46:12 GMT
It is a great play but I agree. Another slot denied to home grown talent. |
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Post by Jan on Apr 17, 2018 9:48:38 GMT
Calling our old chum Cardinal Pirelli - interested in your opinion - anything here indicate the YV's reputation as a home for directors' theatre is being maintained ? Looks very writer-based to me.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 17, 2018 9:57:20 GMT
I had my fingers crossed for something from August Wilson, not to be though.
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