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Post by learfan on May 1, 2018 20:24:19 GMT
UK premiere of Arthur Miller's last play "Finishing the Picture" opens 12 June. A real coup for them.
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Post by joem on May 2, 2018 10:27:07 GMT
Yes please!
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Post by zahidf on May 2, 2018 12:27:15 GMT
Looks like super strong season. I will go to a few of them!
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Post by Jan on May 3, 2018 19:35:02 GMT
UK premiere of Arthur Miller's last play "Finishing the Picture" opens 12 June. A real coup for them. Directed by that stalwart of the fringe Phil Willmot, he pops up all over the place but never gets any high-profile work at the major subsidised venues - pity, he couldn’t do any worse than some of the directors who do. |
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Post by nash16 on May 3, 2018 22:29:22 GMT
UK premiere of Arthur Miller's last play "Finishing the Picture" opens 12 June. A real coup for them. Directed by that stalwart of the fringe Phil Willmot, he pops up all over the place but never gets any high-profile work at the major subsidised venues - pity, he couldn’t do any worse than some of the directors who do. He could pay his actors for a change though... |
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Post by Jan on May 4, 2018 6:59:57 GMT
Directed by that stalwart of the fringe Phil Willmot, he pops up all over the place but never gets any high-profile work at the major subsidised venues - pity, he couldn’t do any worse than some of the directors who do. He could pay his actors for a change though... ... or they could stop working for him. |
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Post by nash16 on May 4, 2018 11:43:18 GMT
He could pay his actors for a change though... ... or they could stop working for him. Oooooo, nasssssssty! |
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Post by Snciole on May 4, 2018 13:13:10 GMT
Directed by that stalwart of the fringe Phil Willmot, he pops up all over the place but never gets any high-profile work at the major subsidised venues - pity, he couldn’t do any worse than some of the directors who do. He could pay his actors for a change though... He was sacked from the dreadful Exposure the Musical at the then St James' Surely he has to pay at the Finborough? |
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Post by nash16 on May 4, 2018 23:20:26 GMT
He could pay his actors for a change though... He was sacked from the dreadful Exposure the Musical at the then St James' Surely he has to pay at the Finborough? No, there'll be no stipulation saying he has to pay. Most of the plays and musicals at the Finborough don't pay their performers. They normally use the "profit share" term, but no one gets anything. It's a shame he keeps working. The St James disaster you rightly point out should have warned others. |
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Post by Phantom of London on May 4, 2018 23:48:30 GMT
He was sacked from the dreadful Exposure the Musical at the then St James' Surely he has to pay at the Finborough? No, there'll be no stipulation saying he has to pay. Most of the plays and musicals at the Finborough don't pay their performers. They normally use the "profit share" term, but no one gets anything. It's a shame he keeps working. The St James disaster you rightly point out should have warned others. Simple, no pay - no attendance from me. |
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Post by Snciole on May 5, 2018 9:49:11 GMT
As an unpaid blogger who doesn't pay others to blog I feel a bit of hypocrite but it does make uncomfortable that professional productions can often be anything but. I was hearing from friend that in Amdram productions the director often gets paid, sounds like Wilmott is using the same model here.
Finborough is reasonably priced and often sells well (though as you say when is it ever profitable) but does explain why it can have these large scale projections like Incident at Vichy which other spaces couldn't afford to do.
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Post by profquatermass on May 5, 2018 13:11:17 GMT
I'm sure all the publicity at the time said that Resurrection Blues was Miller's final play.I feel cheated now
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Post by Jan on May 5, 2018 14:39:44 GMT
I'm sure all the publicity at the time said that Resurrection Blues was Miller's final play.I feel cheated now Well the publicity also said it was a world premier for the Old Vic and it wasn’t that either and even the director Robert Altman didn’t know (he said he wouldn’t have directed it if he had known) |
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Post by finboroughtheatre on May 7, 2018 7:01:20 GMT
Hi everyone,
It's definitely Arthur Miller's final play - only seen once before in Chicago, and we had to get special permission from his daughter to do it.
Re pay, Phil's show is paying - at the moment - weekly expenses and profit share (which we hope will be a good one). We have an Arts Council application pending though, so we hope to pay a lot more than that if it's successful. Please keep your fingers crossed for us. Phil is on the same deal as everyone else involved, as always. The other two shows in the season are on the Equity Fringe Agreement rates or better.
All best, Neil
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Post by Jan on May 7, 2018 16:16:54 GMT
Hi everyone, It's definitely Arthur Miller's final play - only seen once before in Chicago, and we had to get special permission from his daughter to do it. Re pay, Phil's show is paying - at the moment - weekly expenses and profit share (which we hope will be a good one). We have an Arts Council application pending though, so we hope to pay a lot more than that if it's successful. Please keep your fingers crossed for us. Phil is on the same deal as everyone else involved, as always. The other two shows in the season are on the Equity Fringe Agreement rates or better. All best, Neil Interesting. Thanks for that. If the entire run sells out (I assume it will) would the resulting profit share translate into at least Equity Fringe pay rates for the actors ? |
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Post by finboroughtheatre on May 7, 2018 16:56:27 GMT
Hi Dr Jan, No it wouldn't be that much sadly once it's split between everyone working on the show (including all the creative team as well as actors) as we only have 50 seats, we try and keep the seat price accessible, many seats will be sold as concessions etc. The weekly expenses are paid solely from all of the money we get from the Theatre Tax Relief scheme for this show, plus all of the money we get from interest on our charitable reserves (100% of all income from both those sources goes only towards fees on our in house shows), so 100% of all and any profit will only go to the company and crew, and we always do Open Book accounts so they'll be able to see where everything went. Best, Neil
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Post by dani on May 7, 2018 17:27:23 GMT
He was sacked from the dreadful Exposure the Musical at the then St James' Surely he has to pay at the Finborough? It's a shame he keeps working. The St James disaster you rightly point out should have warned others. Was it his fault? My understanding is that the material was beyond redemption. |
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Post by Snciole on May 7, 2018 19:48:08 GMT
TBF to Wilmott the writer took over directing, I am not sure how much of Wilmott's work was even in the final show!
OT but what happened to the planned revival of Exposure the Musical!?
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Post by learfan on May 9, 2018 11:32:46 GMT
All booked for 30 June. All kudos to the Finborough for doing this but its a shame the National or even the Almeida or Donmar didnt take this on. I mean its Arthur Miller's last play!!
Will be interesting to see the cast.
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Post by zahidf on May 10, 2018 11:08:53 GMT
Interesting that the new season seems to not have 2 plays on at the same time, but rather one at a time
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