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Post by Rory on May 3, 2024 9:25:37 GMT
Lily Allen playing Hedda Gabler directed by Matthew Dunster.
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Post by nash16 on May 3, 2024 9:33:23 GMT
I mean, classic Theatre Royal Bath going for names, but seriously?!
Dunster going downhill as fast as Herrin.
And then it’s coming to the West End? Eurgh…enough.
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Post by adamkinsey on May 3, 2024 9:49:06 GMT
Saw an article for this. Headline uses that word 'reimagined'. All we see these days is 'reimagined'. Can people find other words, please, and can some directors stop 'reimagining' and just give us what the dramatist intended?
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 3, 2024 10:08:21 GMT
No and then more no.
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Post by Being Alive on May 3, 2024 11:17:15 GMT
Make it stop for the love of god she's not an actress
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Post by andthelight on May 3, 2024 12:21:39 GMT
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 3, 2024 12:28:49 GMT
Oh wow. This is depressing.
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Post by Being Alive on May 3, 2024 16:03:49 GMT
Dunster is obsessed with this woman.
Telling that she's not worked with another director at all though 😂
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Post by bordeaux on May 3, 2024 19:32:05 GMT
Saw an article for this. Headline uses that word 'reimagined'. All we see these days is 'reimagined'. Can people find other words, please, and can some directors stop 'reimagining' and just give us what the dramatist intended? Yes, it reminds me of a quote I read recently from Kenneth Tynan decades ago railing against the demand that theatre be 'relevant'. As he said, what narcissism it is to think that all plays should be about us. They're not - they're about other people, in other situations at other times. One reason we got to art, surely, is that we want to engage imaginatively with people who are not us, who are not like us, whose lives and experiences are very different. I want to know what it feels like to be a provincial Russian at the end of the 19th century, to be a young man growing into kinghood, a young woman on the Regency marriage market. Now sometimes a reimagining can be great, and so can a production which aims to put on stage as much of the original play as possible - I loved both Ostermeier's Enemy of the People and Nunn's Uncle Vanya. It all depends on the quality of the work. But you've really got to be good to muck around with a great classic. And I suspect that most of us are more interested in Chekov or Ibsen's mind than that of any contemporary reimaginer. |
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