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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 13:57:43 GMT
The Hypocrite, a major new Richard Bean comedy set at the time of the English Civil War, a co-production between Hull Truck and the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be a centrepiece of 2017’s Hull City of Culture Festival, before transferring to the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Post by Jan on Aug 22, 2016 15:56:02 GMT
The Hypocrite, a major new Richard Bean comedy set at the time of the English Civil War, a co-production between Hull Truck and the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be a centrepiece of 2017’s Hull City of Culture Festival, before transferring to the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon. What does "major" mean in that press release ? Big cast ? |
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 22, 2016 16:36:58 GMT
Just looked it up in google and there is interview from couple of years ago mentioning the play and saying lead role had been written for Simon Russell Beale! If that still holds the it would fit in with him finishing Tempest.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 16:39:40 GMT
Ooh, Richard Bean would be interesting! I LOVED The Nap!
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Post by Jan on Aug 22, 2016 17:18:07 GMT
Ooh, Richard Bean would be interesting! I LOVED The Nap! Richard Bean provides a valuable service passing off as his own jokes from the 1970s so that a new audience can enjoy them again. Simon Russell-Beale delivered a few of them in his "improved" version of London Assurance so there is a connection |
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 22, 2016 18:21:42 GMT
Ooh, Richard Bean would be interesting! I LOVED The Nap! Richard Bean provides a valuable service passing off as his own jokes from the 1970s so that a new audience can enjoy them again. Simon Russell-Beale delivered a few of them in his "improved" version of London Assurance so there is a connection Ooh Jan, i take it you arent a fan? 😃 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 20:03:55 GMT
Richard Bean is a lazy writer. I can happily miss anything he's written.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 22, 2016 20:13:45 GMT
Tend to agree if im honest. One man etc was ok but the casting made it. I saw Pitcairn in chichester and thought it awful. That said if SRB is indeed in this then i will prob give it a go.
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Post by theatreliker on Aug 22, 2016 20:42:13 GMT
The Nap was the perfect mix of play and performance space which made for a brilliant theatrical experience. Still one of the best things I've seen this year.
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Post by bordeaux on Aug 22, 2016 21:53:29 GMT
Re the Richard Bean play:
This is from an interview with Mark Lawson in the Guardian in 2014: '...two scripts for Hull’s celebrations as City of Culture in 2017. The Hypocrite is a serious farce set during the English civil war, when the city was the first place to close its gates on Charles I; and there will be a “response play” to a 1970s script by a well-known northern dramatist, which Bean asks me to keep vague “because I haven’t written to ask his permission yet”.'
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? |
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Post by Jan on Aug 23, 2016 5:59:30 GMT
Re the Richard Bean play:
This is from an interview with Mark Lawson in the Guardian in 2014: '...two scripts for Hull’s celebrations as City of Culture in 2017. The Hypocrite is a serious farce set during the English civil war, when the city was the first place to close its gates on Charles I; and there will be a “response play” to a 1970s script by a well-known northern dramatist, which Bean asks me to keep vague “because I haven’t written to ask his permission yet”.'
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? A response to the 1970s TV series The Comedians is more likely because that's where he gets his jokes from. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 13:07:17 GMT
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? Yes, he was reported in interview with Hull Daily Mail that it is indeed Comedians by Trevor Griffiths. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 23, 2016 13:11:47 GMT
O dear, Bean. Was chatting t'other day about SRB and his next role and was hoping for something modern. This sounds like using an historic context to push a comtemporary concept...again already. Oh well, hope for the best.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 23, 2016 13:22:10 GMT
O dear, Bean. Was chatting t'other day about SRB and his next role and was hoping for something modern. This sounds like using an historic context to push a comtemporary concept...again already. Oh well, hope for the best. Never fear Lynette im hoping rsc have lured him back with a couple of parts in 2017. So the Bean play and say Morose in Jonson's Silent Woman. I can only hope! Wish rsc would just 'king announce the season😕😕 |
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Post by Jan on Aug 23, 2016 15:48:21 GMT
'Well-known northern dramatist' suggests Alan Bennett or Trevor Griffiths to me: a response to Habeas Corpus or The Comedians? Yes, he was reported in interview with Hull Daily Mail that it is indeed Comedians by Trevor Griffiths. Hmmm ... I wonder if the old Marxist will give permission for the writer of England People Very Nice to "respond" to his most notable play ? Seems unlikely. Maybe Bean ought to get on and finish The Count of Monte Cristo instead, an NT commission he completed to such an inadequate standard they had to cancel the production. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 24, 2016 17:40:53 GMT
'Respond' you mean mess with and/or ruin.
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Post by martin1965 on Aug 27, 2016 11:52:49 GMT
Anybody else received the letter from the RSC re membership? Firstly the £10 increase, i guess i will continue but have to say if it went up again to £80 or £90 i would expect more benefits. However it does say that there will be FOUR plays in next years mainhouse season, prob the only way Doran can keep to his six year timetable. App the Swan season will have new works, hmmmm what happened to the Jacobethans? Oh well hopefully not long to wait for the announcement😉
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2016 22:23:18 GMT
Lynette and all other devoted fans of Maria Aberg will be keen to catch her premiere production of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox, a "huge theatrical feast with music and songs." "For all the family Ages 5+" Touring from November to June. (Not RSC)
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Post by cirque on Sept 10, 2016 7:17:34 GMT
2017 all revealed monday.
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 10, 2016 9:09:45 GMT
2017 all revealed monday. Amen!! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 17:33:10 GMT
Ooooooh, that's exciting!
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 12, 2016 7:19:12 GMT
Doran obvs likes China. Lije the sound of the Romans, presumably with one ensemble. Jacobethans having a break fron the Swan😒
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2016 7:55:41 GMT
Who is directing ? Doran has directed all four of those Roman plays before. Two of them (Coriolanus and Antony & Cleo) are also notoriously difficult to cast, so we need to see the actors - I expect they'll be a long time announcing casting.
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Post by theatreliker on Sept 12, 2016 8:36:57 GMT
Sounds likes a good season. Haven't seen those Shakespeare plays and I like much of Richard Bean's work. Wonder if Doran is directing elsewhere next year.
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