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Post by mrnutz on Jul 17, 2024 12:56:39 GMT
I was on stage and it's fine to take photos before (but the net curtain is in place until into the show), or during the interval. No photos are allowed during curtain call.
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Post by Rory on Jul 17, 2024 18:46:07 GMT
Denise Gough has posted on Instagram that some inconsiderate person filmed her performance today which, understandably, totally threw her. Some people really are a*seholes. As an aside, the show will be on NT at Home.
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Post by kate8 on Jul 17, 2024 19:36:01 GMT
Denise Gough has posted on Instagram that some inconsiderate person filmed her performance today which, understandably, totally threw her. Some people really are a*seholes. As an aside, the show will be on NT at Home. I saw it this afternoon. Denise pointed to the person filming during first act and I think she told them to stop filming, still in character. I was sad to read on Instagram that she was so upset. She gave such an incredible performance, hard enough without distractions. I don’t understand why people film - apart from being disrespectful, why pay ££s for the privilege of watching live theatre and then watch it through your phone, making a rubbish quality video instead of just focusing on the actors in front of you?
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Post by lt on Jul 17, 2024 20:18:02 GMT
Denise Gough has posted on Instagram that some inconsiderate person filmed her performance today which, understandably, totally threw her. Some people really are a*seholes. As an aside, the show will be on NT at Home. I saw it this afternoon. Denise pointed to the person filming during first act and I think she told them to stop filming, still in character. I was sad to read on Instagram that she was so upset. She gave such an incredible performance, hard enough without distractions. I don’t understand why people film - apart from being disrespectful, why pay ££s for the privilege of watching live theatre and then watch it through your phone, making a rubbish quality video instead of just focusing on the actors in front of you? How appalling, I think they should kick out any member of the audience that does this.
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Post by bordeaux on Jul 18, 2024 8:08:17 GMT
I saw this last night and it is as superb as everyone says it is. Denise Gough is amazing, of course. Sat in the front row on stage and loved it. I enjoyed Lungs a few years ago. It seems to be a long time since he wrote a play; is that correct? Would be keen to see anything else he does.
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Post by iwanttix on Jul 28, 2024 15:14:48 GMT
I saw this yesterday. I wasn't really bothered about going, but I managed to get a rush ticket because my friend already had a ticket. I thought it was brilliant and Denise Gough is incredible. I can't believe I nearly missed seeing this!
It was my first time back at Trafalgar since the refit and it's a wonderful looking theatre now.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 6, 2024 11:52:37 GMT
Stage level ticket on the Noticeboard for the 7th August matinee.
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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 9, 2024 20:07:13 GMT
I saw PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS on Thursday evening (8th August). I saw the original production of this at the Wyndham’s in 2016 and loved it then, so wanted to see Denise Gough reprise her performance. It was just as good as I remembered.
Gough's performance is still extraordinary, and one the best performances I have ever seen on the stage. What Gough does is so brave and honest; the energy and physical intensity she gives to the role is remarkable. I couldn't take my eyes off of her for the entire performance! She has a magnetic stage presence. She made a potentially extremely unlikeable character likeable, not only through the dry wit she brought to the role, but also the humanity, making you care deeply for her. The cast around Gough are wonderful too, but this is undoubtably her show. She barely leaves the stage, and it is a Herculean effort.
The play itself is still an absolute stunner! So well-written, with surprises at every turn. McMillan's ability to turn things on their head is remarkable. The play can absolutely break your heart and shock you one moment (as it does in the last scene between Emma and her parents), but can be hilariously funny the next. All characters in the play are various shades of ‘grey’. You do not root for any particular character, as none are particularly likeable - you can agree with some of their actions, whilst then hating other choices that they make. You can tell Emma is lying through most of the first act, due to her overly grandiose theatrical speeches on the state of the world etc. In the second act, you start to believe she is telling the truth, only to have the rug pulled from underneath you when her real name is finally revealed, and you question everything that has come before. The fact that we see none of the triggers for her condition, or the real reason for her brother’s death is because we never really get under the skin of who the real Emma is, as she is unwilling to let anyone in. The character is enigma as many people are.
I can’t say I felt moved through any of it, apart from the moment between Emma and Mark during her ‘graduation’ when they were saying goodbye to one another. However, that is not to say that it is not still a stunning piece of theatre.
The staging is still brilliant. An interesting thing I noticed this time is that Emma is the only character that does not use any of the doors within the set to make her entrances or exits, instead favouring the back of the stage. I am sure someone smarter than me can come up with an intellectual argument for why this is.
I can’t wait to see what other stage pieces Denise Gough does, now that she has said goodbye to Emma.
Maybe PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS can be revived in another 10 years, with Jodie Comer as the lead.
5 stars.
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Post by Rory on Aug 9, 2024 20:53:31 GMT
Was there originally a suggestion that this remounted production would move to Broadway? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
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Post by Javert on Aug 13, 2024 22:06:29 GMT
Saw this a month or so ago -- thought it was incredibly thought-provoking, and all in all a brilliant piece of theatre. Selected details I particularly enjoyed:
- the theme of a whiting, 'clinical' effacement captured by both the staging itself and the environments it represents - see Plath's "Tulips" for a similar exploration of the contrast between affirmation of identity and the purity of stasis. - artistic relapses and hallucinatory sequences which parallel Emma's loss of structure and direction, with scenes that are transient and trance-like in every sense of that word. - ACT 2's bedroom transition marks the start of a figurative escape for Emma, but the physical manoeuvre serves as a literal entrapment as it descends and encircles her. - the central equivalence between acting and deceit, and how dynamics persist cyclically in both spheres.
Even as the curtain closes, the ending plays out within an entirely commercial lens without any of the 'vividness' which Emma continually wishes for - and you're left wondering what hopes and truths, if any, remain.
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This reminded me very much of Snook's Dorian Gray, which I saw a few months earlier and enjoyed almost as equally. I'd love to get more recommendations on works with a similarly ambitious and 'transformative' scope.
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Post by helenfrombath on Aug 14, 2024 21:47:54 GMT
Was there originally a suggestion that this remounted production would move to Broadway? I'm sure I read that somewhere. After it closed in London, the original production did play a limited engagement at Saint Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn in 2017. Enough time has past that they could certainly do another go in New York on Broadway, but due to the odd Tony eligibility rules, it would probably be considered a revival since it's technically already played New York.
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Post by mattnyc on Aug 15, 2024 0:11:26 GMT
Seeing as this will be available on NTLive at home in September, I doubt they’d be looking to transfer it again.
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Post by drmaplewood on Aug 15, 2024 6:29:05 GMT
Denise's recent Instagram posts also suggests this will be the last outing for this production.
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Post by Rory on Aug 15, 2024 7:59:56 GMT
Denise's recent Instagram posts also suggests this will be the last outing for this production. Yes it read like a valedictory to the role
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Post by dahlia on Aug 31, 2024 2:53:02 GMT
This is a play that I never would have booked if I hadn’t read the reviews here on TheatreBoard. I wouldn’t have seen it (loved it!) and I certainly wouldn’t have booked stage seats (fabulous!) if I hadn’t read your comments, so thank you everybody! I loved this production, the performances, and the set. What absolutely made my evening, though, was seeing that one of my fellow stage seat audience members was also checking the TheatreBoard forum during the interval.
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