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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 22:13:42 GMT
Gemma Artherton returns to the West End from December 9th! 
A fantastic Actress in everything she does, I can't wait.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 22:19:10 GMT
It was originally going to be Cush Jumbo. Gemma Arterton's great, but I'm still disappointed. What happened?  |
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Post by nash16 on Jun 30, 2016 23:44:40 GMT
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Post by Jon on Jul 1, 2016 0:37:07 GMT
Cush Jumbo is in the Good Wife spin-off so I imagine she couldn't make the dates work.
Didn't Ann Marie Duff do Saint Joan at the NT a few years ago?
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Post by lynette on Jul 1, 2016 14:02:14 GMT
Yep Duff was very good. One of Shaw's better plays but still a bit ponderous.
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Post by peggs on Jul 1, 2016 18:24:28 GMT
Yep Duff was very good. One of Shaw's better plays but still a bit ponderous. One of my early theatre going experiences that, it blew me away but I rather put that down a lot to the casting, no slight on Gemma Arterton who I've not seen live but I imagine would be rather a good fit for this potentially. |
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Post by Marwood on Jul 2, 2016 19:20:59 GMT
Anyone know when tickets for the new seasons go on sale, couldn't see anything on the Donmar website (only want to see this, not the Muhammad Ali play)
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Post by addictedtotheatre on Jul 3, 2016 9:49:20 GMT
I tweeted the Donmar several days ago about the booking dates and have yet to receive a reply. They can be maddeningly high-handed sometimes, even though it seems their glory days have passed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 10:08:55 GMT
I believe it's Friday 22nd July. Not sure where I read it, but I remember being distinctly relieved because it's after payday. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 12:59:19 GMT
Production is set to be screened live in cinemas on February 16th!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 13:58:22 GMT
Hooray! Wasn't sure if this was for me or not, and if it's not, it's easier to leave a cinema unobtrusively than a theatre...
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Post by demonbarber on Sept 1, 2016 15:09:31 GMT
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Post by zak97 on Sept 1, 2016 15:17:51 GMT
Ah, I had completely forgotten Gemma had said that. I haven't seen anything, aside from 'The Vote' that has been filmed live at the Donmar. Does the intimacy of the small space do the cameras any favour with regards to the quality of filming shots. Providing the cinema tickets aren't too expensive, I'll probably try this, I thought Gemma was fabulous in Nell Gwynn, if I have no luck with the front row. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 28, 2016 10:05:13 GMT
Just got my Barclays ticket! Front row of the stalls, it never happened to me before, I'm quite excited. Love this play, I can't wait to see it.
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Post by Phantom of London on Nov 28, 2016 10:07:50 GMT
Ditto
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 9, 2016 19:09:59 GMT
Ugh, modern scenery
They say it should be 2 hour and 45 minute long including interval, if you're interested.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 9, 2016 20:56:49 GMT
There is a conference table on an ever-spinning revolve like in the young vic 'Streetcar Named Desire' and three screens that shows the news, the weather, medieval and renaissance paintings... Joan recognizes the Dolphine on Skype while she's alone on stage and all the others characters were offstage. Some bits of the text are incredibly modern, but the play itself seems to be too involved with medieval political and religious life to be staged in this way.
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Post by argon on Dec 10, 2016 0:42:08 GMT
Goddams (Play Pun) Revolve but needed it to prevent watching actors backs. Finished @ 22.19 with that rare thing these days an interval. It had its moments but never really hit the stratosphere. Standouts Levey,Keenan & Stone-Fewings but Gemma Arterton lacked a certain je ne sais quoi ( preview aside ) I just didn't see the depth of emotion I would expect from this protagonist.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 10, 2016 10:27:58 GMT
The choice of having it set in modern times is just so weird. You obviously see the post-brexit and post-Trump parallels but all the thing with the church makes no sense and it's not fully developed, so the whole thing is a gimmick rather than a concept. There is a new ending that doesn't involve Charles.
Fisayo Akinade as the Dauphin delivers the best performance on stage, he's truly a fantastic character actor. Also, Elliot Levey is a very good Cauchon. On the other hand, Gemma Arterton was not good. She essentially played a Disney princess for the whole time and she was goodish only in the trial scene (btw, the trial scene and the previous scene are so masterfully written - you really cannot do them wrong, that writing could save the scenes from the worst actors in the universe). And yet, even in the trial scene, she totally gave away that gorgeous speech where she retracts her abjuration: it was flat and really poorly acted. It's very hard to see something inspirational or even miraculous in her Joan, she plays a childish girl and it's very easy to think she's totally insane. The choice of having her dressed in period clothes while the rest of the cast wears modern ones is not very smart... you see what they're trying to do, but at the end of the day it just makes Joan look mad as a hatter.
The flaws are intrinsically linked to the direction, they are not something that will naturally improve during previews unless they totally reconsider some aspects of it.
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Post by lynette on Dec 10, 2016 16:22:00 GMT
O dear.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 11, 2016 2:06:29 GMT
I thought Gemma Atherton was quite magnificent in this, I liked her more here than Neil Gwyne.
However the production seemed to be lacklustre, which was done in modern dress in projections of Renaissance paintings.
I found the constant revolve to be insufferable and really was more gimmick than affect.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 9:24:12 GMT
Microwave Theater
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 11, 2016 9:47:05 GMT
Well Josie Rourke IS a rubbish director and Gemma Arterton is hardly Denise Gough.
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 11, 2016 13:51:31 GMT
To be fair it would need a better actress to surpass Ann-Marie Duff at the National. One of the best nights ever at the theatre for me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 20:07:39 GMT
Well Josie Rourke IS a rubbish director and Gemma Arterton is hardly Denise Gough. Thank god. Denise Gough has to be one of the most irritating actresses around to watch. It's all ticks and mannerisms signposted from a mile off. |
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