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Post by PhantomNcl on Jan 24, 2022 13:30:25 GMT
Blimey has it really been 6 years?? How the time has flown. I was one of the ones who came over from the old Dress Circle board too.
Thanks to everyone involved for the setting up and running of the Board though - it really is great to see so much love and passion out there for live theatre (and a mutual dislike of Bad Behaviour at a Show).
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Post by stevemar on Jan 24, 2022 13:40:02 GMT
Jan 20th 2016 I saw The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios with Ron Cook, John Simm, Keith Allen, Gemma Chan and Gary Kemp. I don't remember a single thing about it. I saw this too - my note simply says it was for me a familiar play (studied Pinter) jazzed up with lighting, music and particularly grotesque characters. Ron Cook must have been the father, and Gemma Chan whilst appearing compliant, got the upper hand of the otherwise all male household. Otherwise, I can only recall the terrible seats at the Trafalgar. Having checked my notes, it was a family post Christmas outing to Wicked on 16 Jan, followed by “Waste” at the National. I remembered nothing of the latter, so Google and my notes tell me it was Harley Granville Barker, a political satire, Charles Edwards/Olivia Williams but I only gave it a miserable 2 stars and called it long and dull. Interestingly the Guardian review headline is “Morals, sexual politics and hypocrisy are the big themes in this tragic psychological portrait of a man for whom ideals matter more than individuals.” Ah, how things have changed! (Though in the play was about a principled man, who makes a mistake and falls into a life of barrenness and power play. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 28, 2022 23:15:49 GMT
Warm and fuzzy reading through this thread. I came from Whatsonstage which I had found by some odd freak of internet serendipity. I was invited to be a Mod possibly because I was opinionated and it was a good way to control my offerings 😁 and I have really enjoyed being here. The other guys do most of the work, all the techie and the close examination of all our machinations. I love the revues of plays and shows and the newsy gossip. I like reading the opinions of theatre minded people on current problems. I think over the last two years this has helped to keep me from drowning in all the internet/ so called social stuff in other places; the anxiety has its own home so to speak.
Long may we continue
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