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Post by cirque on Jul 25, 2022 12:15:22 GMT
By my reckoning the interviews should be this week or last.Await word on the streets but would point out a continuity candidate should have a glorious past to continue. If not a new broom is required to reinvent.
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Post by Jan on Jul 25, 2022 13:08:54 GMT
By my reckoning the interviews should be this week or last.Await word on the streets but would point out a continuity candidate should have a glorious past to continue. If not a new broom is required to reinvent. They are interested in continuity of the education programme and community engagement. Wonder who they’ve co-opted onto the selection panel - David Tenant was on it last time which given his work with Doran seems almost like a conflict of interest. |
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 25, 2022 17:04:05 GMT
By my reckoning the interviews should be this week or last.Await word on the streets but would point out a continuity candidate should have a glorious past to continue. If not a new broom is required to reinvent. They are interested in continuity of the education programme and community engagement. Wonder who they’ve co-opted onto the selection panel - David Tenant was on it last time which given his work with Doran seems almost like a conflict of interest. Well if you get public money and their education programme is very good having brought a class there. But I would think a good AD just delegates that by having a good education team. And they really should be more involved in the shows. I'm not sure what it has done under Doran. I mean some shows were good but they totally lost all those glorious actors and directors that had been doing so well there in the years before. To my mind they need to build that up from the bottom qgain. The communication and education seem to be fine and kept ticking over. What they did do under Doran was build the RSC in cinemas and things but that was coming anyway. |
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 17:36:20 GMT
I think they need to get the programming right so that the summer season is dazzling for tourists and school hols and the Xmas period has at least two showstoppers, Xmassy thing and a regular Willie, prob a comedy. So they need a person who relates to the rhythm of the place and the demographics, who is commercial in mind but won’t compromise on quality, who loves Shakespeare wholeheartedly and trusts that Willie wrote good plays ( not always obvious in my experience) who engages some of our gifted actors, trusts them to act and not be overwhelmed by tech and directors’ ‘ideas’, who really wants the job but wont be disheartened by the crap which will engulf their desk almost immediately…..
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 25, 2022 18:35:49 GMT
I think they need to get the programming right so that the summer season is dazzling for tourists and school hols and the Xmas period has at least two showstoppers, Xmassy thing and a regular Willie, prob a comedy. So they need a person who relates to the rhythm of the place and the demographics, who is commercial in mind but won’t compromise on quality, who loves Shakespeare wholeheartedly and trusts that Willie wrote good plays ( not always obvious in my experience) who engages some of our gifted actors, trusts them to act and not be overwhelmed by tech and directors’ ‘ideas’, who really wants the job but wont be disheartened by the crap which will engulf their desk almost immediately….. And don't be boring. Globe seems to be doing well indeed Terry. How about an actor...who knows how to delegate. ADS job as a programmer and as a supporter of talent is key. Keeping the place standing too of course. |
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Post by Jan on Jul 25, 2022 20:16:53 GMT
I think they need to get the programming right so that the summer season is dazzling for tourists and school hols and the Xmas period has at least two showstoppers, Xmassy thing and a regular Willie, prob a comedy. So they need a person who relates to the rhythm of the place and the demographics, who is commercial in mind but won’t compromise on quality, who loves Shakespeare wholeheartedly and trusts that Willie wrote good plays ( not always obvious in my experience) who engages some of our gifted actors, trusts them to act and not be overwhelmed by tech and directors’ ‘ideas’, who really wants the job but wont be disheartened by the crap which will engulf their desk almost immediately….. Leading actors won’t work there without a guaranteed London transfer. Who was the last leading actor who has worked there without one ? A few weeks at the Barbican on a stage totally unsuited to RST and Swan transfers (and which they’d previously rejected along with £1m a year City funding under Adrian Noble) was Doran’s inadequate answer to that problem. |
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Post by tributary on Jul 25, 2022 21:24:21 GMT
Leading actors won’t work there at all at the moment. It’s a weak shortlist apparently. Noone exciting has applied.
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Post by lynette on Jul 25, 2022 22:40:28 GMT
Leading actors won’t work there at all at the moment. It’s a weak shortlist apparently. Noone exciting has applied. I didn't say ‘exciting’ ……. |
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Post by tributary on Jul 25, 2022 22:47:56 GMT
I think without an exciting new candidate, someone who will remake the company as a real force in 2022, the RSC is in danger of a huge funding cut. No one really knows what it’s for any more.
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Post by Jan on Jul 26, 2022 7:27:31 GMT
I think without an exciting new candidate, someone who will remake the company as a real force in 2022, the RSC is in danger of a huge funding cut. No one really knows what it’s for any more. Are they using a recruitment agency of some kind to go out and actively to find/persuade candidates to apply or did they just put out the advert as a matter of form because they had a preferred in-house candidate ? They should get a funding cut anyway due to their extreme lack of activity compared to their peers (eg. NT). Overall it looks like there are strong parallels with the ENO crisis of a few years ago - lack of direction, bad finances, variable artistic standards, reducing audiences - I expect they will survive but only after ACE have intervened and imposed some changes. |
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 26, 2022 9:14:35 GMT
I think without an exciting new candidate, someone who will remake the company as a real force in 2022, the RSC is in danger of a huge funding cut. No one really knows what it’s for any more. Are they using a recruitment agency of some kind to go out and actively to find/persuade candidates to apply or did they just put out the advert as a matter of form because they had a preferred in-house candidate ? They should get a funding cut anyway due to their extreme lack of activity compared to their peers (eg. NT). Overall it looks like there are strong parallels with the ENO crisis of a few years ago - lack of direction, bad finances, variable artistic standards, reducing audiences - I expect they will survive but only after ACE have intervened and imposed some changes. I think in house this time is wrong. They should not even think about it. They will survive. But man things have gone wrong recently. They also are nowhere near filling the Barbican when they transfer and perhaps that idea should now be scrapped. It isn’t far to Stratford and if people want to see the plays they can go. Plus the plays just don’t look themselves on the proscenium arch. Only of the selling points of the new theatre is the layout. It needs to be promoted and used effectively. I don’t see a reason to take their Shakespeare’s to London when so many others, with the same directors, do them too. I mean what is new there? They are not even meant for those stages. |
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Post by cirque on Jul 26, 2022 9:24:13 GMT
My prediction is that if EW gets it....and I feel she will the RSC will become a community and education resource largely for Midlands with no wider aspirations.
This is pretty much the case now as the ongoing projects,amateur involvement,schools links etc develop.Hall created a magnificent model of European repertoire based on classic/new work and radical Shakespeare.There is nothing there any more.....it feels lost.
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Post by tributary on Jul 26, 2022 17:25:12 GMT
I don’t think it will be Whyman. It could be Goold.
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Post by cirque on Jul 26, 2022 19:19:07 GMT
Why would he want it…..?
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Post by catw on Jul 26, 2022 19:36:10 GMT
It’s pretty much a guarantee it will not be Goold.
I think it’s going to be woman, I would expect it to be Whyman or Findlay
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Post by Jan on Jul 26, 2022 19:47:15 GMT
It’s pretty much a guarantee it will not be Goold. I think it’s going to be woman, I would expect it to be Whyman or Findlay Or both. Given Goold was eliminated in somewhat mysterious circumstances last time I’d be surprised if he applied again this time. At one time he was a genius director of Shakespeare but these days his interests lie elsewhere, I imagine when he’s finished at the Almeida he’ll go freelance like Grandage and try to get some stage/film work in USA ideally. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 26, 2022 20:15:57 GMT
If they appoint Elizabeth LeCompte from the Wooster Group, we need to storm the building
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Post by joem on Jul 26, 2022 21:31:50 GMT
As long as it is the RSC it should concentrate on Shakespeare, it should be possible for anyone interested and willing to see the RSC perform every Shakespeare play at least once every 10/15 years. And they should revive some of the Shakespeare apocryphal plays which haven't been staged in yonks like Edmund Ironside and Sir John Oldcastle.
Whoever is appointed should be mindful that it's not about him/her. They bring to the table their training, experience and aspirations but it's not their gig. There's a big S in RSC. So imaginative interpretations are welcomed but please don't dumb down, find ways of getting younger audiences to fall in love with the beauty and harshness of the plays as they are without treating them like simpletons.
And go back to a base in London for goodness sake! The Barbican's never been the same since the RSC left, and neither has the RSC.
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Post by horton on Jul 26, 2022 21:48:37 GMT
Deborah Warner would be nice, but that's just a dream.
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Post by bordeaux on Jul 26, 2022 23:08:18 GMT
Deborah Warner would be nice, but that's just a dream. I'm afraid she's in Bath for a while - or rather, as I live in nearby Bristol, I'm delighted that she's in Bath for a while. |
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Post by sweets7 on Jul 26, 2022 23:15:16 GMT
As long as it is the RSC it should concentrate on Shakespeare, it should be possible for anyone interested and willing to see the RSC perform every Shakespeare play at least once every 10/15 years. And they should revive some of the Shakespeare apocryphal plays which haven't been staged in yonks like Edmund Ironside and Sir John Oldcastle. Whoever is appointed should be mindful that it's not about him/her. They bring to the table their training, experience and aspirations but it's not their gig. There's a big S in RSC. So imaginative interpretations are welcomed but please don't dumb down, find ways of getting younger audiences to fall in love with the beauty and harshness of the plays as they are without treating them like simpletons. And go back to a base in London for goodness sake! The Barbican's never been the same since the RSC left, and neither has the RSC. Well then the Barbican is struggling because the RSC can’t fill it. The plays aren’t made for a proscenium and people can just go to Stratford. thing is people will moan. They had no real London base under a Boyd. People moaned. They really haven’t made a success of being back at the Barbican…people moaned. Whatever it is. People will moan. The RSC should do Shakespeare well…that is it. And they should do the Company well. As in actors that are so used to each other and work so much together that their is shorthand in everything they do. And that has been lost too. |
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Post by Jan on Jul 27, 2022 6:55:11 GMT
If they appoint Elizabeth LeCompte from the Wooster Group, we need to storm the building Her and Goold as joint ADs. Forgive and forget. |
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Post by cirque on Jul 30, 2022 11:54:52 GMT
Just met someone…..they said…RSC dreadful,the whole management should be thrown out for what they have done. Didn’t ask for this…just thrown at me by someone who used to visit. It’s true.
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Post by cirque on Aug 6, 2022 11:41:19 GMT
No doubt. EW has it
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 6, 2022 13:19:17 GMT
Could Emma Rice be possibility?
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