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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 10:15:20 GMT
Three people managed to fill the Olivier very well in the Lehman Trilogy - I don't see why two people in the Lyttelton should be intrinsically a problem. The Lehman Trilogy played at the Lyttelton Oh yeah - I don't know if that helps my point or hinders it. I'd forgotten about The Year of Magical Thinking as well - definitely no probs with one person owning a big stage in that. |
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Post by popcultureboy on Jul 29, 2019 14:05:22 GMT
Half a two-hander at the Lyttleton when Vanessa Redgrave appeared in the one-person dramatisation of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. Also, Cillian Murphy did Misterman as a monologue and Ballyturk was mostly a two hander, both in the Lyttleton. |
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Post by orchidman on Jul 29, 2019 14:48:59 GMT
Why has this sold so well? Are Duncan and Jennings really a big draw?
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Post by learfan on Jul 29, 2019 16:59:12 GMT
Why has this sold so well? Are Duncan and Jennings really a big draw? Yes, i think they are plus they have been away for a little while. |
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Post by Jan on Jul 29, 2019 20:10:07 GMT
I'm intrigued about first-time writer Simon Woods - quite a coup for the old Etonian and Magdalen College actor. It is odd isn’t it, his debut play on at the NT. How does that work ? We have been told here several times that the NT will only stage plays they have commissioned, so they commissioned a play from someone who’d never written one before ? Why ? I doubt Sir David Hare will be all that happy, thought he had cornered the market for Guardianista political plays at the NT. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 29, 2019 21:22:07 GMT
Are you suggesting a little skulduggery, dear doctor?
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Post by Fleance on Jul 29, 2019 21:55:49 GMT
Why has this sold so well? Are Duncan and Jennings really a big draw? Yes, i think they are plus they have been away for a little while. I thought Duncan gave a fine -- and unusual portrayal of Judith Bliss in Hay Fever (2012). She was not as OTT as that character gives license to be. Great cast, including Freddie Fox, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jeremy Northam, and Olivia Colman. Appropriately at the Noel Coward Theatre. |
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Post by londonpostie on Jul 29, 2019 22:20:35 GMT
I'm intrigued about first-time writer Simon Woods - quite a coup for the old Etonian and Magdalen College actor. It is odd isn’t it, his debut play on at the NT. How does that work ? We have been told here several times that the NT will only stage plays they have commissioned, so they commissioned a play from someone who’d never written one before ? Why ? I doubt Sir David Hare will be all that happy, thought he had cornered the market for Guardianista political plays at the NT. I presume there is a process; perhaps it starts with submitting an outline, that is then taken forward and a detailed treatment produced, eventually it's workshopped ... it must have gone through many hands and many hoops. Three months in the Lyttleton is a serious investment by the NT; reputations risk being at least bruised.
Looking at the trailer, I notice there has been some funding for this from the Arts Council, and no less than five associated talks are listed. The plot thickens ...
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Post by theoracle on Jul 29, 2019 22:59:16 GMT
£15 preview seats have now also been released including seats in the front stalls
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Post by Jan on Jul 30, 2019 2:34:28 GMT
Are you suggesting a little skulduggery, dear doctor? Not really, I’m just curious. In my naive way I thought if you wrote a play and sent it in to them they’d read it and if it was any good they’d put it on, but we’ve been told here several times by someone with inside knowledge this isn’t how it works at all. I start from a position of goodwill towards the author because he was in Cranford. I remember once someone’s debut (and final) play was put on in the West End, that was pure skulduggery as I learned decades later, involving one of our greatest stars. Actually in the debut=final category there was also that Imogen Stubbs thing that transferred to the West End when she was co-incidentally married to Trevor Nunn - they got Juliet Stevenson in that one. |
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Post by lichtie on Jul 30, 2019 7:46:12 GMT
Could this be one of the early outputs from the new works department they set up a few years ago?? It's their job after all to take forward unsolicited as well as solicited projects.
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Post by lynette on Jul 30, 2019 10:17:25 GMT
The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. If it is a good play, then well spotted NT. If not, then we shall know........though I suppose good plays which would otherwise sink can get a helping hand from ‘friends’ .
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Post by random on Jul 30, 2019 11:45:15 GMT
Looking at the trailer, I notice there has been some funding for this from the Arts Council, and no less than five associated talks are listed. The plot thickens ...
Everything at the National has Arts Council funding. They receive £17m a year. |
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Post by theoracle on Jul 30, 2019 20:47:46 GMT
It is interesting though that even though no one has seen the show yet, National Theatre Live have already announced that they’re filming it so they seem pretty confident that people are going to warm towards it. I doubt it will get the same sort of response When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other did earlier this year but who knows?
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Post by theoracle on Aug 9, 2019 7:58:29 GMT
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Post by addictedtotheatre on Aug 13, 2019 10:50:36 GMT
Am I going crazy, but is this a picture of the understudies rather than Alex Jennings and Lyndsay Duncan?? |
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Post by theoracle on Aug 13, 2019 11:40:13 GMT
Pretty sure the understudies look a bit different... or am I missing a joke?
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Post by londonpostie on Aug 13, 2019 13:13:06 GMT
I'd also be surprised if that was taken in the National Theatre building.
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Post by andrew on Aug 14, 2019 21:35:32 GMT
I'd also be surprised if that was taken in the National Theatre building. Pretty sure that's one of their rehearsal rooms. You can see the entrances to them from the public high level walkway round at the Dorfman side. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 14, 2019 22:37:03 GMT
So the set will be posh country kitchen with an Aga.
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Post by Jan on Aug 15, 2019 7:50:10 GMT
So the set will be posh country kitchen with an Aga. That’s the advice they always give to authors isn’t it: “Write what you know” |
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Post by theoracle on Aug 22, 2019 17:25:12 GMT
Anyone going to the first preview tonight?
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Post by showgirl on Aug 22, 2019 19:15:01 GMT
I've been waiting for the running time to appear on the NT site and it now says 1 hour 20 with no interval, meaning I'd not only be OK with an evening performance but would prefer it. If only I'd known when a few affordable evening tix became available for later in the run, but I'm sure there'll be more.
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Post by londonpostie on Aug 22, 2019 19:56:37 GMT
I'll be interested to see what's caught the National's eye with this one. Presumably not the usual Tory gubbins of sexual deviance, dodgy business dealings and the loyal wife done wrong.
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Post by theoracle on Aug 22, 2019 21:11:52 GMT
1hr 20mins?? Thats it?
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