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Post by Dave B on Mar 15, 2024 11:17:34 GMT
Just announced for September
All tickets £10 for the next 48 hours.
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Post by Talisman on Jul 1, 2024 12:33:36 GMT
Production at Southwark Playhouse has just been cancelled - announced by Lazarus company today.
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Post by Dave B on Jul 1, 2024 12:42:49 GMT
Do you have a link please?
Lazarus Theatre Company are doing Cable Street, Julius Caesar is from Icarus Theatre Collective?
ta!
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Post by Talisman on Jul 1, 2024 13:02:02 GMT
I’m confused as Lazarus announced their JC at Southwark and the email about cancellation was from them, not Icarus.
Are Icarus and Lazarus the same thing?
Nothing on SP website about cancellation yet and tickets are still being sold.
Has production been taken on by some one else?
No mention of Cable st on Icarus site, listed by different company on SP website
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Post by Dave B on Jul 1, 2024 13:18:28 GMT
Are Icarus and Lazarus the same thing? No I don't think so. Icarus have a tour of JC and a Southwark run later in the year. I am booked for it already and have had not email or any notification of any changes so far... |
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Post by Talisman on Jul 1, 2024 13:42:17 GMT
Lady in box office confused when I enquired.
Said they will look into it!
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Post by Talisman on Jul 1, 2024 14:49:09 GMT
Very helpful box office have confirmed that the Lazarus production has been taken over by Icarus. Info from both companies suggests that it will be very similar
Hope so as i have enjoyed previous imaginative Lazarus productions
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 1, 2024 16:45:59 GMT
Very helpful box office have confirmed that the Lazarus production has been taken over by Icarus. The other way round would have been much more suitable from a nominative determinism point of view! |
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Post by Talisman on Jul 1, 2024 16:52:20 GMT
Nice!
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Post by Dave B on Jul 17, 2024 9:58:39 GMT
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Post by Dave B on Jul 17, 2024 9:59:21 GMT
BurlyBeaR could you merge or otherwise tidy up with this thread please?
thanks as ever!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 17, 2024 10:12:10 GMT
Merged
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Post by Talisman on Jul 17, 2024 10:18:15 GMT
Thanks for this..
I booked when it was under Lazarus and was totally confused when I received an email cancelling it. When I called the box office they were confused and came back later in the morning to tell me it was still on. Communication regarding this has been rather foggy.
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Post by aloysius on Sept 8, 2024 22:17:36 GMT
Saw this at the weekend. Absolutely remarkable. The worst Shakespeare production I've ever seen.
I have absolutely no idea what's happened behind the scenes at the Playhouse but I would love to know, if anyone can share information. When I booked this play it was a modern-day adaptation, set in a government spin room, exploring the interplay between politicians and the media. Which sounded right up my street. Then in July the theatre emails to say a completely new creative team was now taking this on, the staging redesigned to be end rather than thrust, and now the inspiration was Black Mirror and Minority Report.
It certainly felt like being thrust into an episode of Black Mirror. Caesar is played by a pre-recorded actor as a projection onto the staging (when the staging was placed in the right position by the actors, sometimes he just disappeared into the void). The real life actors often communicated with each other by miming the throwing of speech bubbles which then appeared on screen as written words. There was a toy gun fight which went on for ages. Caesar, when killed, was represented by a blood red sheepskin coat. The full text of the play appeared as sur-titles, designed like an AI chat bot. It was all very confusing indeed.
Reading the last paragraph back, I think I've made this production sound a lot more fun than it felt in the flesh. I suspect this is its major problem - fun when written down, awful when performed in reality. Perhaps with a bit more notice they could have produced something with more cohesive vision. I would dearly love to know how this ended up on stage instead of a production I was really looking forward to seeing though.
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Post by Jan on Sept 9, 2024 8:01:56 GMT
Saw this at the weekend. Absolutely remarkable. The worst Shakespeare production I've ever seen. I have absolutely no idea what's happened behind the scenes at the Playhouse but I would love to know, if anyone can share information. When I booked this play it was a modern-day adaptation, set in a government spin room, exploring the interplay between politicians and the media. Which sounded right up my street. Then in July the theatre emails to say a completely new creative team was now taking this on, the staging redesigned to be end rather than thrust, and now the inspiration was Black Mirror and Minority Report. It certainly felt like being thrust into an episode of Black Mirror. Caesar is played by a pre-recorded actor as a projection onto the staging (when the staging was placed in the right position by the actors, sometimes he just disappeared into the void). The real life actors often communicated with each other by miming the throwing of speech bubbles which then appeared on screen as written words. There was a toy gun fight which went on for ages. Caesar, when killed, was represented by a blood red sheepskin coat. The full text of the play appeared as sur-titles, designed like an AI chat bot. It was all very confusing indeed. Reading the last paragraph back, I think I've made this production sound a lot more fun than it felt in the flesh. I suspect this is its major problem - fun when written down, awful when performed in reality. Perhaps with a bit more notice they could have produced something with more cohesive vision. I would dearly love to know how this ended up on stage instead of a production I was really looking forward to seeing though. Oh. I was considering this but I don't think I'll bother now. Did I see the running time was 2hrs ? That means extensive cuts. |
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Post by Dave B on Sept 14, 2024 22:09:08 GMT
This was dreadful with an already small audience a lot smaller after the interval.
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 14, 2024 22:17:01 GMT
Wow, was it performed in Greek?
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Post by showgirl on Sept 15, 2024 4:01:48 GMT
I despair of SWP: as if a seemingly endless run of mediocre musicals with the odd political play thrown in wasn't enough (yes, generalisation but I haven't wanted to see, let alone liked, anything since Berlusconi), they're now jumping on the Shakespeare bandwagon when there are already umpteen productions elsewhere. On the other hand, they're saving me from using any of my PAYG tickets & trying to identify dates for which I'm free to book.
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Post by tmesis on Sept 15, 2024 5:52:19 GMT
This is absolutely ghastly.
I actually felt sorry for the actors involved as it is well played but the concept and presentation is laughably bad and totally trivializes a great play.
Agree SWP is going through a bad patch. Maybe they’re spreading themselves too thin with two venues to fill and therefore three productions to keep running.
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Post by Dave B on Sept 15, 2024 8:22:54 GMT
From the digital programme Note the transcended the physical realm ... so you'd expect bloody hands and Caesar's body to be updated right? Nope, after they kill the 'entity' there is a bloody body brought out and this continues just as normal with his blood as important a piece as ever.
It's just ... ugh ugh ugh.
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Post by matty on Sept 15, 2024 9:34:45 GMT
I've got a ticket for this next week, but these reviews are making me think I may save myself a journey and give this a miss.
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Post by aspieandy on Sept 15, 2024 17:15:28 GMT
Yup, think I might transcend this one.
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 15, 2024 20:04:48 GMT
They did a bland production of Hamlet 2 years back. On the upside it cannot be as bad as anything performed at the Globe.
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Post by smithfield on Sept 16, 2024 0:34:26 GMT
Have tickets for Thursday night, but now, owing to this thread, I just bought standing tickets for the Orange Tree's Here in America instead. There goes 30 quid.
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Post by Jan on Sept 16, 2024 6:22:10 GMT
They did a bland production of Hamlet 2 years back. On the upside it cannot be as bad as anything performed at the Globe. They did a rather good (in fringe terms) production of As You Like It in 2014 with Simon Lipkin. |
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