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Post by Dave B on May 28, 2024 22:50:43 GMT
Announced in the new OT brochure is Tom Littler directing a 250th anniversary production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals next year. More info and on-sale date due in the Autumn.
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Post by Jan on May 29, 2024 6:42:27 GMT
I like the tradition of using an anniversary as the excuse to revive a classic. The NT used to do it years ago. Now only Tom Littler is keeping the tradition alive, he was the only one to mark the 350th anniversary of Moliere’s death with a rehearsed reading at Jermyn Street, major European playwrights being of apparently no interest to the subsidised sector and not worth celebrating.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 29, 2024 7:58:13 GMT
@jan if only Strindberg had written a play damming boris and praising the nhs. Why couldnt he forsee this?
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Post by Jan on May 29, 2024 8:15:43 GMT
@jan if only Strindberg had written a play damming boris and praising the nhs. Why couldnt he forsee this? My memory was at fault - in fact what was celebrated in 2022 was the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, so even more significant. This was a huge celebration in France with all sorts of theatres and organisations getting involved but nothing at all from the Little Englanders running the NT - the same ones who were apparently opposed to Brexit - it would take a good American playwright anniversary to get them interested. |
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Post by aspieandy on May 29, 2024 10:06:48 GMT
Tom Littler cocking a leg early on this and marking the territory. Look forward to it!
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Post by aspieandy on Sept 30, 2024 11:41:03 GMT
Just a heads up. Booked this morning; the 8-week run of Twelth Night is selling pretty well (23 November 2024 to 25 January 2025) >>
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Post by Jan on Sept 30, 2024 14:14:52 GMT
Just a heads up. Booked this morning; the 8-week run of Twelth Night is selling pretty well (23 November 2024 to 25 January 2025) >>
On the face of it a 1940s setting doesn't seem too obvious - the last time he directed it it was set in the Victorian era which makes immediate sense. This is quite a milestone for the OT - only the second time in its history it's staged a full Shakespeare play (ie. not a schools version) and the cast of 10 is the largest they've ever had. |
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Post by aspieandy on Sept 30, 2024 17:08:03 GMT
Good knowledge @jan . The largest cast for Littler, also?
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Post by Jan on Sept 30, 2024 17:36:23 GMT
Good knowledge @jan . The largest cast for Littler, also? I don't know but I would guess some of his Guildford Shakespeare Company productions might have had more. At Jermyn Street he was planning a pre-Covid production of Three Sisters, it is borderline whether you could do that with less than 10 actors and it didn't happen after Covid because of the expense of having such a large cast. Just by the way the current Menier "The Cabinet Minister" has a cast of 12 which suggests to me that it isn't intended as a one-off Menier show, it surely must be intended to transfer and/or tour. |
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Post by zahidf on Oct 14, 2024 10:36:29 GMT
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Post by Rory on Oct 14, 2024 10:47:40 GMT
Some excellent stuff in there.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 14, 2024 11:43:58 GMT
New season is looking good and a lot more appealing than what the Nash are offering.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 14, 2024 11:50:11 GMT
Very glad that Ben and Imo is getting another outing. I did love that in Stratford and explains why Mr Littler was at the press night for The New Real last week.
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Post by Jan on Oct 14, 2024 11:59:44 GMT
I was at the season launch this morning - lots going on in addition to the main house plays. Their foyer/entrance rebuild is fairly firmly scheduled for 2026 but it is planned the theatre will stay open during it.
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Post by lt on Oct 14, 2024 12:28:18 GMT
Seems I'll be booking a number of OT shows next year, looks to be some really interesting productions.
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Post by marob on Oct 14, 2024 13:48:54 GMT
Looks pretty good. Not sure the world needs another version of Hedda Gabler though.
Happy to see they’re still committed to streaming as many of them as they can too, even if I still haven’t actually watched a stream yet.
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Post by Jan on Oct 14, 2024 14:43:56 GMT
Looks pretty good. Not sure the world needs another version of Hedda Gabler though. Yes I agree, and there are 60 other Strindberg plays I’d like to see before another Dance of Death but for commercial reasons their programming has to be somewhat conservative in its choices I suppose. BTW they said Roger Allam lives locally - someone speculated on another thread (Jon ?) that that was a factor in their casting. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 14, 2024 17:59:26 GMT
I was at the season launch this morning - lots going on in addition to the main house plays. Their foyer/entrance rebuild is fairly firmly scheduled for 2026 but it is planned the theatre will stay open during it. I wonder how they'll get the audience into the auditorium while work is going in, it's a pretty tight space already! BTW they said Roger Allam lives locally - someone speculated on another thread (Jon ?) that that was a factor in their casting. Living locally plus being a familiar face to the OT audience is a win win all round. |
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Post by Dave B on Oct 14, 2024 22:42:45 GMT
I wonder how they'll get the audience into the auditorium while work is going in, it's a pretty tight space already! During the pandemic, they brought people in by the stage loading door to the left of the main stairs in. It was an excellent system, there was a lot more space (even with less people visiting) for coming in and out. I did mean going straight through the backstage area so they didn't keep it afterwards. Which is a shame as the bottleneck to get out of there is often frustrating especially with gaps in mainline train timetables. But anyways, I assume they'll use that again. |
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Post by parsley1 on Oct 14, 2024 22:55:14 GMT
The April De Angelis play
Has previously received less than glowing reviews
Some of the other programming looks good
Tanika Gupta is known for adapting known works
And often setting them in a colonial or otherwise south asian setting not cultural lens
She has done this with Hobsons Choice (very well received and revived)
And
A Dolls House
I also suspect after her success at the NT we will see more from her in general
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Post by Jan on Oct 15, 2024 6:59:30 GMT
I wonder how they'll get the audience into the auditorium while work is going in, it's a pretty tight space already! During the pandemic, they brought people in by the stage loading door to the left of the main stairs in. It was an excellent system, there was a lot more space (even with less people visiting) for coming in and out. I did mean going straight through the backstage area so they didn't keep it afterwards. Which is a shame as the bottleneck to get out of there is often frustrating especially with gaps in mainline train timetables. But anyways, I assume they'll use that again. Yes that is what they are planning on doing, same access as during the pandemic. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 15, 2024 7:02:34 GMT
The April De Angelis play Has previously received less than glowing reviews Some of the other programming looks good Tanika Gupta is known for adapting known works And often setting them in a colonial or otherwise south asian setting not cultural lens She has done this with Hobsons Choice (very well received and revived) And A Dolls House Yes I saw A Doll's House - just a straightforward version of the play but set in India - the setting didn't particularly add anything but unlike other adaptions it didn't detract from the original either. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 15, 2024 7:06:21 GMT
BTW they said Roger Allam lives locally - someone speculated on another thread (Jon ?) that that was a factor in their casting. Living locally plus being a familiar face to the OT audience is a win win all round. Roger Allam playing Churchill is near perfect Orange Tree programming, it could only have been improved if the play had been written by Noel Coward instead of Howard Brenton. |
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Post by joem on Oct 15, 2024 19:44:24 GMT
A new play by Brenton with Roger Allam in it and one of the few Rattigans I haven't seen on stage? What's not to like !?!
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 15, 2024 21:31:04 GMT
Roger treacle voiced Allam does the darkest hour-iiish. Book early.
Probably only me, but I feel TL is on an almost inevitable trajectory that should land him, in 7-8 years, on the roof of that v large brutalist building next to Waterloo Bridge southside.
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