NT 2023

[bordeaux]

I've just received an NT programme for next year announcing a couple of things that had passed me by if they've been announced elsewhere.  Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel in the Olivier directed by Josie Rourke.  Wonderful play, one of the great new plays of the 90s - I saw it at the Lyttelton and had the thrill of being in the same row as Iris Murdoch.   Then there is Dixon and Daughters, a new play by Deborah Bruce, in the Dorfman about a woman who has come out of prison.  And there's the previously announced The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne directed by Sam Mendes about Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet, which I think sounds as though it could be great fun - the presence of Mendes is what makes it particularly intriguing to me given how rarely he directs for the stage now.  As well as the Sheffield musical Standing at the Sky's Edge and the Simon Stone Phaedra - I have great hopes of the latter.  

[Jon]

Josie Rourke seems to be directing a lot of theatre lately.

[jaggy]

Ooooo thank you for this! I've wanted to see Dancing at Lughnasa on stage for ages.

I'm really looking forward to their upcoming shows and now these ones.

[alessia]

Nov 20, 2022 19:02:29 GMT jaggy said:

Ooooo thank you for this! I've wanted to see Dancing at Lughnasa on stage for ages.

I'm really looking forward to their upcoming shows and now these ones.

Ditto! Came over here to say this :-D

[nottobe]

Put me in the camp of those very excited for Dancing at Lughnasa too! I hope we get more Friel onstage, I would love Freedom of the City somewhere too.

[c4ndyc4ne]

have they announced any casting for these? wonder if they'd prove big sells compared to something like Translations...

[harrietcraig]

Have dates for these productions been announced? If so, does anyone have a link (or other any information about dates)? Thanks.

[bordeaux]

Nov 20, 2022 22:45:53 GMT harrietcraig said:

Have dates for these productions been announced? If so, does anyone have a link (or other any information about dates)? Thanks.

Dancing at Lughnasa from 6th April, The Motive and the Cue from 20th April, Dixon and Daughters from 1th April.  

[bordeaux]

Nov 20, 2022 22:32:42 GMT c4ndyc4ne said:

have they announced any casting for these? wonder if they'd prove big sells compared to something like Translations...

Dancing and Lughnasa:  Louisa Harland, Blaithin Mac Gabhann, Siobhan McSweeney, Justine Mitchell, Ardal O'Hanlon, Alison Oliver, Tom Vaughan-Lawlord.  The Motive and the Cue:  Johnny Flynn as Burton, Mark Gatiss as Gielgud, Tuppence Middleton as Taylor.  Dixon and Daughters:  Alison Fitzjohn, Yazmin Kayani, Andrea Lowe, Posy Sterling, Liz White.  The latter is directed by Roisin McBrinn, artistic director of the Gate, Dublin.  

[Jan]

Nov 21, 2022 6:49:59 GMT bordeaux said:

Nov 20, 2022 22:32:42 GMT c4ndyc4ne said:

have they announced any casting for these? wonder if they'd prove big sells compared to something like Translations...

Dancing and Lughnasa:  Louisa Harland, Blaithin Mac Gabhann, Siobhan McSweeney, Justine Mitchell, Ardal O'Hanlon, Alison Oliver, Tom Vaughan-Lawlord.  The Motive and the Cue:  Johnny Flynn as Burton, Mark Gatiss as Gielgud, Tuppence Middleton as Taylor.  Dixon and Daughters:  Alison Fitzjohn, Yazmin Kayani, Andrea Lowe, Posy Sterling, Liz White.  The latter is directed by Roisin McBrinn, artistic director of the Gate, Dublin.  

Mark Gatiss. Yes, of course. 

[Dave B]

All announced now and more

All, bar the return of The Father and the Assassin on sale 8 Dec

[barrowside]

Lovely cast for Dancing at Lughnasa. Siobhan McSweeney should be perfect as Maggie.

[Jon]

Three Derry Girls alumni in Dancing at Lughnasa as well.

[jek]

Just had an easier time than expected booking for Dancing At Lughnasa and The Motive and The Cue as a Priority Member. It may be that there are just less members now but I was assigned a place in the 300s at midday after having joined the waiting room earlier. I was let in to book at 12.25.

[barrowside]

Got tickets for Dancing at Lughnasa. It seems to be selling very strongly. I wonder will it sell out before it opens. Beautiful play - much loved.

[londontg]

I think this is around the time the NT announces their summer shows, isn't it? Any rumours of what will be programmed? I only know of "The Witches" but that seems to be later in the year so it will be announced at a later date.

[bordeaux]

Feb 19, 2023 15:47:54 GMT londontg said:

I think this is around the time the NT announces their summer shows, isn't it? Any rumours of what will be programmed? I only know of "The Witches" but that seems to be later in the year so it will be announced at a later date.

Based on the original book or the new bowdlerized versions, as reported in yesterday's press?!

[londontg]

Feb 19, 2023 15:54:22 GMT bordeaux said:

Feb 19, 2023 15:47:54 GMT londontg said:

I think this is around the time the NT announces their summer shows, isn't it? Any rumours of what will be programmed? I only know of "The Witches" but that seems to be later in the year so it will be announced at a later date.

Based on the original book or the new bowdlerized versions, as reported in yesterday's press?!

Good question! Looking forward to seeing how it is interpreted. 

[nicolaa]

Feb 19, 2023 15:54:22 GMT bordeaux said:

Feb 19, 2023 15:47:54 GMT londontg said:

I think this is around the time the NT announces their summer shows, isn't it? Any rumours of what will be programmed? I only know of "The Witches" but that seems to be later in the year so it will be announced at a later date.

Based on the original book or the new bowdlerized versions, as reported in yesterday's press?!

Considering he was a massive anti-semite, a massive misogynist and a tad racist its very lucky that anything of his still gets performed or published.

And all of those changes will have been agreed by the Dahl estate - as long as that lovely lovely lucre keeps coming in they'll allow anything to happen to the original text.

[Jon]

This isn't even the first time Roald Dahl's books have been edited for modern audiences, the Oompa Loopas were originally pygmies from Africa.

[mrnutz]

Feb 20, 2023 12:03:43 GMT nicolaa said:

Feb 19, 2023 15:54:22 GMT bordeaux said:

Based on the original book or the new bowdlerized versions, as reported in yesterday's press?!

And all of those changes will have been agreed by the Dahl estate - as long as that lovely lovely lucre keeps coming in they'll allow anything to happen to the original text.

The Dahl estate is now fully owned by - and a division of - Netflix.

[londonpostie]

Considering he was a massive anti-semite, a massive misogynist and a tad racist its very lucky that anything of his still gets performed or published.

Indeed, it's not like an audience can form a view for themselves.

We do need to leave this sort of thing to a particular class of expensively educated, righteous community gatekeepers, for the common good. Not least because such people do know what is best for us all.

[bordeaux]

Feb 20, 2023 12:21:36 GMT Jon said:

This isn't even the first time Roald Dahl's books have been edited for modern audiences, the Oompa Loopas were originally pygmies from Africa.

True, but he agreed to those changes, I believe.  The changes to the new versions go far beyond excising the author's racism, and I'm sure go far further than most people would regard as necessary.  My 18 and 16 year olds were appalled at the idea of the changes and are glad they have versions where the author's cruelty and humour were on full display which they can read to their children in 20 years' so.

Yes, he was a racist, but horrible views don't seem to prevent one from being able to create wonderful works in for adults and children. 

[Someone in a tree]

I'm team Pullman

www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-editing-philip-pullman

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Well this thread went off the rails quickly.