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Post by Jan on Sept 8, 2018 9:19:35 GMT
Maybe, i had tix for the Almeida production in the mid 90s that got poor reviews, so bad they cut the run short and i got a refund! Nevertheless he is a playwright the RSC should be doing. I agree they should be doing him. I've also seen The Orphan and The Soldier's Fortune with the latter being probably the better of the three for present day audiences. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 9:26:47 GMT
My favourite of Otway’s is “Cor Baby that’s Really Free”
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Post by learfan on Sept 8, 2018 10:11:31 GMT
Maybe, i had tix for the Almeida production in the mid 90s that got poor reviews, so bad they cut the run short and i got a refund! Nevertheless he is a playwright the RSC should be doing. I agree they should be doing him. I've also seen The Orphan and The Soldier's Fortune with the latter being probably the better of the three for present day audiences. Wasnt Soldiers Fortune a flop at the Young Vic, i was going to book til i saw the reviews. Where did you see Orphan? I know it was done yonks ago at Greenwich with a young Ciaran Hinds and Paul Rhys. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 8, 2018 13:23:52 GMT
I agree they should be doing him. I've also seen The Orphan and The Soldier's Fortune with the latter being probably the better of the three for present day audiences. Wasnt Soldiers Fortune a flop at the Young Vic, i was going to book til i saw the reviews. Where did you see Orphan? I know it was done yonks ago at Greenwich with a young Ciaran Hinds and Paul Rhys. Soldiers Fortune (with Anne Marie Duff and Oliver Ford Davies amongst others) was disappointing at the YV mainly due to poor direction by David Lan. I saw The Orphan at Greenwich in a typical Philip Prowse production - they all wore black and the stage was filled with smoke, it was impossible to follow what was going on. |
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Post by lynette on Sept 8, 2018 22:20:58 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature.
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 6:36:47 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature. Think you are gonna be disappointed L. She said in the Stage interview that she had an upcoming project with the rsc that goes into 2020,so im guessing the details will be part of tomorrow. Soz! |
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2018 7:32:49 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature. Looks to me like she’s being groomed as Doran’s successor, in the absence of any other obvious candidates. |
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 9:04:35 GMT
I wondered that, maybe they will say something tomorrow.
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Post by theatremad on Sept 9, 2018 9:53:14 GMT
Todays tweet says This Coming Summer so looks like it is that announcement.
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Post by lynette on Sept 9, 2018 9:54:09 GMT
Before the announcement can we all join hands and offer up our prayers that Maria Aberg doesn’t feature. Looks to me like she’s being groomed as Doran’s successor, in the absence of any other obvious candidates. Nooooooo! You winding me up? |
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 10:16:49 GMT
Looks to me like she’s being groomed as Doran’s successor, in the absence of any other obvious candidates. Nooooooo! You winding me up? She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2018 10:43:49 GMT
Nooooooo! You winding me up? She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. Female woman. Doubly qualified then. Although I think she's a weak Shakespeare director she may be brilliant as an AD where the main requirement is to employ and develop other talent. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 9, 2018 11:55:09 GMT
She has done better work than Erica Whyman.
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Post by lynette on Sept 9, 2018 16:55:05 GMT
Nooooooo! You winding me up? She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. How does being Swedish tick a box? Is there a requirement for the AD of the RSC to be from Scandinavia? Clearly not. I don’t care where she comes from. I don’t like her work. |
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Post by lynette on Sept 9, 2018 16:55:58 GMT
She has done better work than Erica Whyman. Is that the criterion for becoming the AD of the RSC? |
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 17:08:55 GMT
She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. How does being Swedish tick a box? Is there a requirement for the AD of the RSC to be from Scandinavia? Clearly not. I don’t care where she comes from. I don’t like her work. Easy! Just that it brings that international angle that i imagine boards will like. |
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Post by learfan on Sept 9, 2018 17:10:34 GMT
She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. Female woman. Doubly qualified then. Although I think she's a weak Shakespeare director she may be brilliant as an AD where the main requirement is to employ and develop other talent. Not sure thats the main requirement, programming the seasons must come fairly high? |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 9, 2018 19:05:29 GMT
She has done better work than Erica Whyman. Is that the criterion for becoming the AD of the RSC? Well it should mean that a lacklustre Assistant doesn't get promoted to be an even more lacklustre AD |
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2018 19:41:00 GMT
She ticks a lot of boxes, worked in both rsc houses, non shakespearean work, female woman, Swedish heritage, young. How does being Swedish tick a box? Is there a requirement for the AD of the RSC to be from Scandinavia? Clearly not. I don’t care where she comes from. I don’t like her work. But can’t you imagine old Greg sitting there at the press conference saying “in the age of Brexit we felt blah blah blah” ? I think in general it’s a great idea to get some European or other foreign directors in to run some of our subsidised theatres to bring a fresh perspective. I can’t think of many, the excellent Pierre Audi (Frech Lebanese) who founded the Almeida when he was 22 is one I can think of, Mehmet Ergen (Turkey) is another at the Arcola - not many have managed to break into the parochial little world of UK theatre ADs. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2018 8:05:24 GMT
SUMMER 2019
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
As You Like It, William Shakespeare
Directed by Kimberley Sykes
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
Directed by Justin Audibert [nice to see him back at the RSC and getting to work on the main stage. He'd be a potential Doran replacement I think once he's done a few years running the Unicorn]
Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
Directed by Greg Doran
SWAN THEATRE
Kunene and the King, John Kani - A Royal Shakespeare Company and Fugard Theatre production
"This is a moving and funny new play by the South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani (The Island, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Black Panther). Fellow South Africans Janice Honeyman (Vice Versa; The Tempest, 2009) directs and Antony Sher (King Lear, 2016 & 2018; Death of a Salesman) performs opposite John Kani in this important world premiere."
The Provoked Wife, John Vanbrugh
Directed by Philip Breen
Venice Preserved, Thomas Otway
Directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah
No cast announcements yet
No woman writers, one woman director, one BAME writer, two BAME directors.
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Post by cirque on Sept 10, 2018 8:12:16 GMT
Male Katherine
Globe set the model.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2018 8:14:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2018 8:16:37 GMT
Not even the first time I'll have seen a gender-flipped Shrew at the RSC, they did a nifty one for kids a few years back with Katy Stephens as Petruchio and Forbes Masson as Kate.
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Post by Jan on Sept 10, 2018 9:36:12 GMT
No woman writers, one woman director, one BAME writer, two BAME directors. And, of course, Antony Sher. You would think at this point Sher and Doran might be a bit embarrassed by the frequency with which he gets cast at the RSC, but apparently not. |
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Post by learfan on Sept 10, 2018 9:53:31 GMT
Good looking season at first glance, the restoration double bill in the Swan especially attractive. M4M in the mainhouse too. A rep company as well.
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