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Post by cirque on Sept 19, 2016 15:11:50 GMT
have yet to see this one but seems to be lots of excitement around the place about it.wondered if anyone has seen it ....?
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Post by londonmzfitz on Sept 19, 2016 15:15:15 GMT
Guy at work has spent 10 mins of my lunch hour telling me about it. He said it was fabulous, spent a while building up then pow bam hit him in the face and he loved it.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Sept 20, 2016 14:37:20 GMT
He said it was fabulous, spent a while building up then pow bam hit him in the face and he loved it. Your avatar shows such a gentle looking person... Well, it was MY lunch hour he was intruding on ... |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Sept 20, 2016 14:41:16 GMT
I was trying to add, the colleague is in his mid-60's and lives in Eastbourne, one-step-away-from-being-dead land. So he started off by saying for the first 10 minutes the actors on stage were getting off their heads on drugs and then it started and there was a screen and smoke and stuff.
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Post by Jan on Sept 20, 2016 15:19:40 GMT
the colleague is in his mid-60's and lives in Eastbourne, Ah yes, Dover for the Continent, Eastbourne for the incontinent. I was there a couple of weeks ago. The lazy stereotyping of it is surprisingly accurate. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 20, 2016 16:10:23 GMT
The lazy stereotyping of it is surprisingly accurate. Tell me about it! I nearly went to Uni there, but two campus visits made me realise just how outnumbered we would be - and I didn't like the pointy look of teeth on some of those seniors I saw on my walk up from the station. Actually, I think the seafront and pier are beautiful, but live there, *shudder.* However the number of theatres per head of population must be the highest in the UK, I saw 4. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2016 16:24:18 GMT
I went to the theatre in Eastbourne when staying there one summer as a child
On the bill of this summer season extravaganza were Rod Hull and Emu, the Nolan Sisters, Moira Anderson and either Ken "Settle Down Now" Goodwin or Freddie "Parrot Face" Davies, I forget which
I sometimes think my theatregoing since then has been a forlorn attempt to recapture that experience
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Post by Jan on Sept 20, 2016 16:30:12 GMT
I went to the theatre in Eastbourne when staying there one summer as a child On the bill of this summer season extravaganza were Rod Hull and Emu, the Nolan Sisters, Moira Anderson and either Ken "Settle Down Now" Goodwin or Freddie "Parrot Face" Davies, I forget which I sometimes think my theatregoing since then has been a forlorn attempt to recapture that experience I suspect that as a child there I saw The Bruce Forsyth Show, The Rolf Harris Show, and "The Mating Game" starring James Beck out of Dad's Army. |
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Post by showgirl on Sept 20, 2016 16:32:37 GMT
We are getting off-topic but I actually think it's great that Eastbourne can support so man theatres, whatever we think of their programming - though in fact, some perfectly decent touring productions go there and if the trains weren't so awful, I'd consider visiting more often. I did go once this summer to see a highly-rated production which wasn't really touring (venues too limited), but it took most of the day and 6 trains in total, so I can't face making a habit of it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2016 17:52:30 GMT
I saw a summer revue at Newquay's Cosy Nook Theatre compered at the piano by Hylda Baker's sister.
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Post by Jan on Sept 21, 2016 6:35:53 GMT
I saw a summer revue at Newquay's Cosy Nook Theatre compered at the piano by Hylda Baker's sister. Was she billed as "the sister of TV's own Hylda Baker" ? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2016 15:31:06 GMT
I can't recall the detail of the billing, but she proudly told us so during the show, to the accompaniment of her piano riff.
I think this was my first experience of professional theatre (aged about 11 or 13) and the show was pretty feeble.
It was also my father's first experience of professional theatre (at least during my lifetime) and on the strength of this single night he declared with absolute, resigned certainty that theatre was dead.
However, I looked for the silver lining in the show and I was hooked.
There were very few of us in that audience at the Cosy Nook, but I was seated right beside an extraordinarily ugly elderly couple in full evening dress who attentively and indulgently appreciated the whole proceedings, and I remember feeling a mixture of pity and anticipatory admiration for the beneficent effect of a lifetime of theatregoing.
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Post by argon on Sept 22, 2016 9:58:33 GMT
Drug factories & paraphernalia, streetwise crews strutting the boards clad in Adidas and equivalents. Urban/street dancing (Diversity crew kind) to high beats per minute bass rhythms coupled with the old bit of reggae to accompany the cannabis farm. Cirque du Soleil type rigging, lights & smoke queue Imogen.
On walking out at the end of the show I looked up at the building just to check it was actually The Globe I had visited, but I enjoyed it more so than the recent Macbeth & The Taming of the Shrew.
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Post by alexandra on Sept 22, 2016 12:38:08 GMT
Yikes. So unlike the home life of our own dear King Cymbeline.
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Post by Jan on Sept 22, 2016 13:01:07 GMT
I can't recall the detail of the billing, but she proudly told us so during the show, to the accompaniment of her piano riff. I think this was my first experience of professional theatre (aged about 11 or 13) and the show was pretty feeble. It was also my father's first experience of professional theatre (at least during my lifetime) and on the strength of this single night he declared with absolute, resigned certainty that theatre was dead. However, I looked for the silver lining in the show and I was hooked. There were very few of us in that audience at the Cosy Nook, but I was seated right beside an extraordinarily ugly elderly couple in full evening dress who attentively and indulgently appreciated the whole proceedings, and I remember feeling a mixture of pity and anticipatory admiration for the beneficent effect of a lifetime of theatregoing. Back to the main discussion, In the recent Northern Broadsides "Merry Wives" the actress playing Mistress Quickly played her as Hylda Baker. |
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Post by ctas on Oct 1, 2016 21:55:40 GMT
Saw this today, purchased on a whim late yesterday. I really enjoyed it- I'm not familiar with Cymbeline at all but I liked the way this play kept up the high tension and drama. Not totally sure about some of the movement and setting choices but overall I think it worked. Love the idea of reclaiming/renaming the play. Now I just need to read all the programme notes for context...
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Post by peggs on Oct 2, 2016 14:54:36 GMT
Any idea of a running time please?
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Post by sondheimhats on Oct 2, 2016 15:19:04 GMT
I saw this last week and really loved it. Granted, the Globe was almost certainly the wrong space for this production, but I thought it was excellent regardless. Powerfully modernized, perfectly cast, compellingly staged, and done in a way that was very clear. I was somewhat familiar with Cymbeline going in, but my friend who saw it with me wasn't at all. She agreed with my that it was very easy to follow, especially given how many twists and turns there are in the plot.
Among the many things I loved about this production, was the casting of William Grint, a deaf actor, as one of the kidnapped brothers. Casting a deaf actor in the role, and choosing to make the character himself deaf within the story, really brought a lovely added level of dimensionality to not only his character, but also to his relationships with others. And an encouraging example of inclusivity as well!
Running time was about 2h 50m when I went last week. A tad long, but it totally flew by, even from the Yard.
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Post by peggs on Oct 2, 2016 15:41:23 GMT
Thanks sondhimhats for running time. From what I've seen and heard about this every bit of me thinks this isn't for me but I'm hoping to have my pre show thoughts shattered (I suspect part of it is its very difference from what I've seen in the Globe before), it's not a play I've seen before which I think might work in it's favour at least, will report back.
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Post by dramaqueen on Oct 7, 2016 16:18:06 GMT
Saw this last week and really enjoyed it, as did my niece who has now been turned on to Shakespeare.
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Post by peggs on Oct 8, 2016 23:41:17 GMT
Quite an odd day at the Globe, saw Merchant at the matinee, a classic of the old regime which has lost none of it's uncomfortableness and raw pain on tour, both Pryces on fire and then went to Imogen in the evening which was seemingly very much of the new regime, fast paced, loud, modern, brash, lacking any subtly in it's portrayal of characters and yet i loved both. Imogen was such that if you hadn't known it was shakespeare and it's so unglobe like compared to my experience that you could almost forget you were there that you might not realised it was and i mean that as a compliment. Whatever it's shortcomings and I certainly wouldn't want to see all my Shakespeare like that, I think schools should have been hot footing it there as it was utterly accessible, couldn't have seemed more relevant, undull. Seeing the space used like that was really interesting and by the end it felt rather more like I was at a club that a theatre, I've never heard the crowd make that much noise, it was as if we'd all seen a band we loved. I didn't know the play which I suspect helped as any changes mostly passed me by, I knew odd characters had, had their gender changed and that Imogen had some of Cymberline's lines at the end, but otherwise I wasn't going to be bothered by things not being as I thought they should. I've seen other modern Shakespeare but not quite like this and yes some of that was the use of dance type movements, the wires and such like but it just rolled along once it got going so much so that I didn't think of my poor legs once which has to be a first. There was some very strong acting and whilst not very interactive as i've come to expect there the groundlings had that collective force feel which I love and there were loads of young people there which surely has to be good.
So if that's part of the new Emma Rice look and it can go alongside some of the more traditional stuff hopefully I'll be going back.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2016 13:05:03 GMT
I saw this last night, three days after the RSC's Cymbeline. This production of Imogen is really good at setting up the story at the start (unlike the baffling RSC concoction), and then tells it as clearly as possible. It seemed to me that the setting is just a very successful way of telling the story of the play, and it doesn't seek to impose any external ideas or issues about contemporary urban life. Personally, I don't find the play particularly interesting all the time, but I quite agree with Peggs that the Shakespeare's Globe audience was hanging on every twist of the story. The modern setting has probably attracted many of the audience to come to see it, and they weren't patronised by the show or misled by the publicity, but were given a straightforward and engaging production of the original play.
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Post by Coated on Oct 12, 2016 21:40:48 GMT
I enjoyed Imogen a lot more than I thought I would, but I wish that directors could move on from the adidas-stripes-for-edgy-plebs trope.
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Post by partytentdown on Oct 15, 2016 11:29:44 GMT
have yet to see this one but seems to be lots of excitement around the place about it.wondered if anyone has seen it ....? The director Matthew Dunster has tweeted the finale jig. it's certainly energetic! |
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Post by cirque on Oct 17, 2016 9:57:24 GMT
I do believe if WS had been at Imogen last night he would have been thrilled at his reaching all sections of audience.....wild cheers,delight,fear,anger,disbelief ...the ancient and the modern collide in this show and takes our possibilities with making work to a new level.It is as radical and experimental as Original Practices and as important.
This is Shakespeare being taken very seriously and certainly not a patronising yoof take.......Dunster is good choice as Associate Director and reflecting on the season it looks like Emma Rice had brought wonder to many people....some for whom the plays must have previously seemed rather remote.
Looking forward to announcement for 2017 and ,perhaps,news of transfers or reruns.
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