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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 9:35:19 GMT
Or Calderon or Lope de Vega? They did a Tirso de Molina in the Olivier in 2012. That went well, didn't it? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 10:10:34 GMT
Don't forget the Nikolai Erdman they did this year. That went well too.
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Post by Jan on Oct 12, 2016 10:25:31 GMT
Personally I find A&C a terribly dull play (it should stop shortly after Antony dies) and the thought of it with the charisma-free Fiennes in the lead makes the prospect even more dismal, I assume Godwin will be casting Greg Hicks as Cleopatra which won't help. Okay, so you have personal reasons not to see A&C. But you're still the target audience for the Shakespeares. Rufus Norris gave a couple of lengthy media interviews published yesterday where he was very careful to say in both that he's trying to broaden the audience, not to lose any of the old audience. He also made the point that everyone can't like everything, which should be obvious but apparently isn't. Well presumably HE likes everything he programmes and by extension the particular demographic to which he belongs is going to like a lot of it too. I'm not that bothered, he'll be gone after 5 years anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 11:16:47 GMT
Or Calderon or Lope de Vega? They did a Tirso de Molina in the Olivier in 2012. That went well, didn't it? Hey it gave us Bertie Carvel in bondage, so clouds and silver linings. |
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 12, 2016 12:28:57 GMT
Okay, so you have personal reasons not to see A&C. But you're still the target audience for the Shakespeares. Rufus Norris gave a couple of lengthy media interviews published yesterday where he was very careful to say in both that he's trying to broaden the audience, not to lose any of the old audience. He also made the point that everyone can't like everything, which should be obvious but apparently isn't. Well presumably HE likes everything he programmes and by extension the particular demographic to which he belongs is going to like a lot of it too. I'm not that bothered, he'll be gone after 5 years anyway. Indeedio, hopefully the board are putting feelers out now. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 12:39:36 GMT
Well presumably HE likes everything he programmes and by extension the particular demographic to which he belongs is going to like a lot of it too. I'm not that bothered, he'll be gone after 5 years anyway. No, he absolutely does not programme everything to suit his personal taste. There's a broad range of shows to interest diverse audiences. And there's been so much continuity with the Hytner years and before. A series of Shakespeares in the Olivier, a Howard Davies political foreign classic in the Lyttelton, Marianne Elliott, Anne Marie Duff, four David Hare plays, Patrick Marber, ... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 13:04:45 GMT
I wouldn't programme only things I like if I were an artistic director. I do fancy I have fairly broad tastes, but there are also things I'm not really keen on that I'm sure other people would like to see. And I don't think he's been anywhere near as much of a letdown as people on here like to claim he has, there's been some really good stuff and not that many crushing disappointments really.
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 12, 2016 17:10:45 GMT
Hmmmm we'll agree to disagree then!
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Post by Jan on Oct 12, 2016 17:44:23 GMT
Hmmmm we'll agree to disagree then! Hytner was there 12 years and he programmed only 6 things he didn't personally like and he programmed a very much wider range of things than Norris. Even stuff he no doubt holds his nose when programming like Twelfth Night he makes acceptable to himself by PC casting. Anyway, I'm not complaining, at £65 a ticket I wouldn't be going anyway. The best AD in London, and he has been for years, is David Lan at the Young Vic, I don't rate him as a director or writer at all but as a producer he is brilliant, the NT are trailing in his wake playing catch up. |
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Post by lynette on Oct 12, 2016 18:16:31 GMT
'Old audience' HG? So you mean aged ones or people who used to see everything at the NT but now don't? Even aged ones sigh when seeing yet another David Hare show.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 12, 2016 19:14:00 GMT
Other than Angels and Follies, its a yawn from me! You are Parsley and I claim my £5 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2016 20:58:45 GMT
Other than Angels and Follies, its a yawn from me! You are Parsley and I claim my £5 NO I am Parsley |
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Post by partytentdown on Oct 13, 2016 9:50:19 GMT
We
are all
Parsley.
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