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Post by Jan on May 4, 2017 12:20:30 GMT
With Edmonson you'd also get the same performance for each too. I have disliked Sher in more things than I've liked him in but I thought he was good in: The History Man (TV, 1981) Tartuffe (1983) Richard III (1985) A few Shakespeares I thought he was OK in: King Lear (1983) Macbeth (1999) Winters Tale (1999) One or two other things too where he has played an eye-rolling psychopath, the Roman Actor (2002) maybe. Hmmm asbi think i have said before i simply dont understand why you persist in seeing him when you dont like him? Eg i dont like Mark Rylance so i dont book for him. I liked Lithgow tho it wasnt a great production. I havent seen a few of them but it is clearly done too often. It is of course a popular play but difficult to cast due to so many medium roles. If Edmondson is confirmed i will prob give this a miss. Prob best TN i have seen was the Briers one directed by Branagh at the Riverside Studios 30 years ago! So I should have avoided seeing Harriet Walter, who I like, in Macbeth because Sher was in it too ? Odd idea. Yes that Branagh one was the best. Lynette agrees so that settles the matter. |
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Post by martin1965 on May 4, 2017 12:35:19 GMT
Hmmm asbi think i have said before i simply dont understand why you persist in seeing him when you dont like him? Eg i dont like Mark Rylance so i dont book for him. I liked Lithgow tho it wasnt a great production. I havent seen a few of them but it is clearly done too often. It is of course a popular play but difficult to cast due to so many medium roles. If Edmondson is confirmed i will prob give this a miss. Prob best TN i have seen was the Briers one directed by Branagh at the Riverside Studios 30 years ago! So I should have avoided seeing Harriet Walter, who I like, in Macbeth because Sher was in it too ? Odd idea. Yes that Branagh one was the best. Lynette agrees so that settles the matter. Dont see thats it odd at all we all have our likes and dislikes therefore we dont just see plays/actors for the sake of it. If i didnt like Sher i wouldnt have seen that Macbeth you mention. Sorry but i just dont get it. |
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Post by Jan on May 4, 2017 12:45:56 GMT
So I should have avoided seeing Harriet Walter, who I like, in Macbeth because Sher was in it too ? Odd idea. Yes that Branagh one was the best. Lynette agrees so that settles the matter. Dont see thats it odd at all we all have our likes and dislikes therefore we dont just see plays/actors for the sake of it. If i didnt like Sher i wouldnt have seen that Macbeth you mention. Sorry but i just dont get it. You are a "glass half empty" pessimist. Macbeth was worth seeing for Harriet Walter and the production itself, Sher's eye-rolling antics were not enough to cancel that out. Anyway, he was OK in that. |
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Post by martin1965 on May 4, 2017 16:45:04 GMT
Dont see thats it odd at all we all have our likes and dislikes therefore we dont just see plays/actors for the sake of it. If i didnt like Sher i wouldnt have seen that Macbeth you mention. Sorry but i just dont get it. You are a "glass half empty" pessimist. Macbeth was worth seeing for Harriet Walter and the production itself, Sher's eye-rolling antics were not enough to cancel that out. Anyway, he was OK in that. Thats funny as i am def a glass half full person! I simply feel with finite resources and a critical eye you cannot indeed should not see productions for the sake of it. As i say i dont like Brecht, Coward, Beckett, Ayckbourn and others so i dont go. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 17:02:10 GMT
We all have our own deal-breakers. I'm not a fan of Sher either, but that doesn't mean he's a deal-breaker. Indeed, I can't think of any actors who would single-handedly turn me off from seeing a play. Theatre is collaborative, just because you're not enthusiastic about one aspect doesn't mean the rest will be terrible. I'll avoid certain playwrights, but they tend to be far more of a constant presence for an entire play than a single actor can manage (one-man shows aside, of course).
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 19:26:01 GMT
Prob best TN i have seen was the Briers one directed by Branagh at the Riverside Studios 30 years ago! Oh wow, I LOVED that! I wasn't lucky enough to see it on stage, as I was only just starting to go to the theatre around that time, but it was on telly too, and I still have a very poor VHS copy that I can't bear to part with, even though I have no means of watching it now. I can't tell you how many times I've watched it, and Anton Lesser's performance of the songs especially is just so wonderful. |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 19:31:16 GMT
I haven't booked anything else for the RSC yet. Nothing's grabbed me at all, unfortunately. I really wanted to see the full Shakespeares there now I'd started going, but there have been several duds recently, and Julius Caesar really didn't appeal too much. Also, JC is on locally at The Crucible soon too, and I'm going to that, and just didn't think I could see two in short succession. Titus Andronicus is a maybe, but I don't feel desperate to see it. Twelfth Night is a probable for me, but Ade Edmonson doesn't fill me with enthusiasm, I have to say. But I was looking at their website and their prices seem to have gone up quite dramatically this year. It seems to be a choice between restricted view £16 ones or £45-55ish for back row, or then premium prices. I'm sure I paid around £35 for side stalls last year.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on May 5, 2017 0:25:43 GMT
Surely Scrooge will be played by a female actor... They did an all-female Christmas Carol at one of their pop-up fringe festivals a few years ago, weirdly. |
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Post by martin1965 on May 5, 2017 5:25:46 GMT
I haven't booked anything else for the RSC yet. Nothing's grabbed me at all, unfortunately. I really wanted to see the full Shakespeares there now I'd started going, but there have been several duds recently, and Julius Caesar really didn't appeal too much. Also, JC is on locally at The Crucible soon too, and I'm going to that, and just didn't think I could see two in short succession. Titus Andronicus is a maybe, but I don't feel desperate to see it. Twelfth Night is a probable for me, but Ade Edmonson doesn't fill me with enthusiasm, I have to say. But I was looking at their website and their prices seem to have gone up quite dramatically this year. It seems to be a choice between restricted view £16 ones or £45-55ish for back row, or then premium prices. I'm sure I paid around £35 for side stalls last year. Im going to TA underrated play and David Troughton is always brilliant. Then double header of Dido and Coriolanus. To my mind they are dragging their feet over the Complete Works, it was always going to be hit and miss and i have missed quite a few. I find it odd too that Doran programmed two seasons of "Jacobethan" plays when associate but since becoming head honcho hasnt done a single season! 😕 |
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Post by Jan on May 5, 2017 7:30:29 GMT
I haven't booked anything else for the RSC yet. Nothing's grabbed me at all, unfortunately. I really wanted to see the full Shakespeares there now I'd started going, but there have been several duds recently, and Julius Caesar really didn't appeal too much. Also, JC is on locally at The Crucible soon too, and I'm going to that, and just didn't think I could see two in short succession. Titus Andronicus is a maybe, but I don't feel desperate to see it. Twelfth Night is a probable for me, but Ade Edmonson doesn't fill me with enthusiasm, I have to say. But I was looking at their website and their prices seem to have gone up quite dramatically this year. It seems to be a choice between restricted view £16 ones or £45-55ish for back row, or then premium prices. I'm sure I paid around £35 for side stalls last year. Im going to TA underrated play and David Troughton is always brilliant. Then double header of Dido and Coriolanus. To my mind they are dragging their feet over the Complete Works, it was always going to be hit and miss and i have missed quite a few. I find it odd too that Doran programmed two seasons of "Jacobethan" plays when associate but since becoming head honcho hasnt done a single season! 😕 Titus Andronicus is quite rarely performed so I will se it @ Barbican. Likewise Coriolanus. I saw Dido Queen of Carthage at NT a few years ago so I won't be making the effort to see it in Stratford. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 11:15:27 GMT
and David Troughton is always brilliant. Sorry, but he isn't a patch on Colin Skipp. He is one of a series of recently imported actors, also including his son, who have ruined The Archers by making it stagey and unbelievable. |
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Post by lynette on May 5, 2017 11:47:20 GMT
I dunno about The Archers cos I gave it up when John fell under the tractor. But the Troughtons are pretty solid on stage. Always give value for money 😄
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 11:52:51 GMT
Then they should have stayed there.
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Post by martin1965 on May 5, 2017 14:30:30 GMT
I dunno about The Archers cos I gave it up when John fell under the tractor. But the Troughtons are pretty solid on stage. Always give value for money 😄 Yeah man! I have never listened to a single episode of Archers and frankly dont feel i have missed out. David Troughton is always brilliant on stage😁 |
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Post by martin1965 on May 5, 2017 14:31:09 GMT
and David Troughton is always brilliant. Sorry, but he isn't a patch on Colin Skipp. He is one of a series of recently imported actors, also including his son, who have ruined The Archers by making it stagey and unbelievable. [br Who? |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 14:37:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 16:59:50 GMT
Im going to TA underrated play and David Troughton is always brilliant. Then double header of Dido and Coriolanus. To my mind they are dragging their feet over the Complete Works, it was always going to be hit and miss and i have missed quite a few. I find it odd too that Doran programmed two seasons of "Jacobethan" plays when associate but since becoming head honcho hasnt done a single season! 😕 Titus Andronicus is quite rarely performed so I will se it @ Barbican. Likewise Coriolanus. I saw Dido Queen of Carthage at NT a few years ago so I won't be making the effort to see it in Stratford. I enjoyed TA when I saw the Globe production a couple of years ago - that was a lot of fun. We went to a midnight one, which made the gore extra exciting somehow. I like David Troughton too, I just don't feel enthused enough to pay out yet. I might wait and see if they have any special offers on Twitter. |
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Post by Jan on May 6, 2017 12:43:56 GMT
Titus Andronicus is quite rarely performed so I will se it @ Barbican. Likewise Coriolanus. I saw Dido Queen of Carthage at NT a few years ago so I won't be making the effort to see it in Stratford. I enjoyed TA when I saw the Globe production a couple of years ago - that was a lot of fun. We went to a midnight one, which made the gore extra exciting somehow. I like David Troughton too, I just don't feel enthused enough to pay out yet. I might wait and see if they have any special offers on Twitter. Oh don't bother paying out, you'll be able to see it for £10 either in Stratford or at the Barbican. |
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