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Post by aspieandy on Jul 30, 2024 10:39:22 GMT
I'm half expecting Prospero's books to burst out of Sigourney Weaver's chest cavity ... over to you, Jamie.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 30, 2024 10:59:40 GMT
Goodness How boring Particularly when the average person doesn’t even understand Shakespeare Dreadfully dull What would you have rather seen in the announcement parsley1? |
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Post by kathryn on Jul 30, 2024 11:16:43 GMT
Well, they’ve got my money - Hiddleston doing comedy and Shakespeare again!!
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Post by parsley1 on Jul 30, 2024 11:17:53 GMT
Goodness How boring Particularly when the average person doesn’t even understand Shakespeare Dreadfully dull What would you have rather seen in the announcement parsley1? A new play! A US transfer A revival of something that isn’t Shakespeare |
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Post by amyja89 on Jul 30, 2024 11:23:54 GMT
Sigourney! I was waiting for something to pop up for the 28th December as the second half of my London birthday trip!
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Post by nancycunard on Jul 30, 2024 11:36:32 GMT
Not too fussed about Hiddleston but Sigourney is amazing!!!
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Post by BVM on Jul 30, 2024 11:36:37 GMT
Great times!
Already excited by the deluge of complaints we’ll hear about ticket prices and Jamie Lloyd’s style 😭😱😂….
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Post by dr on Jul 30, 2024 11:37:04 GMT
What would you have rather seen in the announcement parsley1 ? A new play! A US transfer A revival of something that isn’t Shakespeare I think the idea is for it to be Shakespeare, symbolically returning his work to this great theatre for the first time since Gielgud's declaration in 1957. And I think Lloyd has done a great job at making it exciting: one of the greatest screen actors of all time making her West End debut in a role last played there by Gielgud himself is thrilling. And Hiddleston/Atwell are a great pairing for "Much Ado," especially given both of their previous working relationships with Lloyd. The subsidised sector and West End are full of new writing, US transfers and revivals - just look at this year's non-musical selection, and you'll see all of the above in abundance. There is a time and place for big revivals of Shakespeare, and this seems like a good opportunity to me - not to mention that it's an immense theatre, and I doubt much else would sell than the biggest-name playwright and the biggest name actors. |
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Post by alece10 on Jul 30, 2024 11:40:19 GMT
Wonder if they will do either of them in the round?
I know part of the refurbishment was to allow such a thing and could it make it a bit more intimate.
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Post by kallyloo on Jul 30, 2024 11:42:49 GMT
Tom Hiddleston in Much Ado (my favourite Shakespeare). Yes please.
Is The Theatre Royal an independent theatre? I’m just curious as to how they’re going to manage the onslaught when tickets go on sale.
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Post by Jan on Jul 30, 2024 11:44:21 GMT
What would you have rather seen in the announcement parsley1? A new play! A US transfer A revival of something that isn’t Shakespeare But none of those suggestions are any better, London is full of them (if by transfer you mean the play not the production). It’s a 2200 seat theatre, commercial considerations dictate what they can do. I could say why not transfers from UK regional theatres but that would be unlikely to work either. |
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Post by argon on Jul 30, 2024 11:48:52 GMT
I just hope they both have interval and not condensed down into these 2 hour indulgences.
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Post by viserys on Jul 30, 2024 11:57:39 GMT
Would love to see Sigourney Weaver on stage, but not sure I'm willing to fork out a fortune to see her sit around on a bare stage in her underwear for two hours because Jamie "One trick pony" Lloyd can surely be relied on to deliver the same tedious nonsense as always.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 30, 2024 12:00:47 GMT
Designed by soutra dullmour
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Post by claireyfairy1 on Jul 30, 2024 12:14:31 GMT
I don't know how, but I have a feeling Jamie Lloyd will make two of the best Shakespeares dull. But I'll pay for them, see them and complain about them all the same because he insists on casting people I like.
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Post by alece10 on Jul 30, 2024 12:24:54 GMT
Tom Hiddleston in Much Ado (my favourite Shakespeare). Yes please. Is The Theatre Royal an independent theatre? I’m just curious as to how they’re going to manage the onslaught when tickets go on sale. Owned by LW Theatres so no issue ticket wise, they have a very good online booking system for their theatres. |
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Post by longinthetooth on Jul 30, 2024 12:52:07 GMT
Only a couple of days ago I was telling myself never to book anything involving Jamie Lloyd again, yet here I am eating my words already!
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Post by Talisman on Jul 30, 2024 13:13:02 GMT
Great times! Already excited by the deluge of complaints we’ll hear about ticket prices and Jamie Lloyd’s style 😭😱😂…. I sometimes get the impression that the important thing is to be able to say you have seen it rather than the actuality. Being able to grumble about the production and prices is an exciting added extra. Being the saddo that I am I had a great time watching talented actors in a college production for £5 the other day so just like King Gama I have nothing to grumble about |
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Post by ncbears on Jul 30, 2024 13:30:06 GMT
from the Deadline article: deadline.com/2024/07/sigourney-weaver-west-end-tempest-1236026153/Working on The Tempest at Drury Lane will sort of complete a circle of coincidence for Weaver. She’ll be taking on a role last performed there by Gielgud. Her first Broadway credit in 1975 was to work on a revival of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, starring Ingrid Bergman. Weaver worked as an assistant stage manager and understudy. The production was directed by John Gielgud. |
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2024 13:31:32 GMT
I'd like to see Sigourney Weaver but otherwise I'm not overly excited by today's announcement. I'm a bit tired of Lloyd and Gilmour's stripped back aesthetic and it annoys me intensely that he screws anyone over 30 who is not a keyworker with utterly obscene pricing.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Jul 30, 2024 13:32:41 GMT
from the Deadline article: deadline.com/2024/07/sigourney-weaver-west-end-tempest-1236026153/Working on The Tempest at Drury Lane will sort of complete a circle of coincidence for Weaver. She’ll be taking on a role last performed there by Gielgud. Her first Broadway credit in 1975 was to work on a revival of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, starring Ingrid Bergman. Weaver worked as an assistant stage manager and understudy. The production was directed by John Gielgud. Yes. Everything has a history. Sometimes links are tenuous |
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Post by lolaluffneggle on Jul 30, 2024 14:19:40 GMT
I don’t know why I read it and thought both plays were on sale next week. It’s just The Tempest with Much Ado sale dates yet to be announced.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 30, 2024 14:21:56 GMT
I would have thought Jamie Lloyd could do 2 Shakespeare plays in repertoire with each other, he could have red plastic chairs for one and yellow plastic chairs for the other.
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Post by alessia on Jul 30, 2024 14:36:39 GMT
I'd like to see Sigourney Weaver but otherwise I'm not overly excited by today's announcement. I'm a bit tired of Lloyd and Gilmour's stripped back aesthetic and it annoys me intensely that he screws anyone over 30 who is not a keyworker with utterly obscene pricing. yep I am with you. especially about the pricing. Clearly wants to be seen as the good guy but then he makes up the lost income by hiking up the price for everyone else. Said this before. |
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Post by aspieandy on Jul 30, 2024 15:45:26 GMT
Though I like the key worker/on benefits aspect, I wonder if the 'under 30' thing is an industry strategy - it's daft enough to be one of those things someone proposed and everyone else was too worried to oppose for fear of looking bad or being 'outed' on social media.
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