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Post by alnoor on Jan 30, 2016 14:36:17 GMT
The next all female production from Phyllida Lloyd starts in New York on 24 May until 26 June 2015, at Free Shakspeare in the Park. Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Stars Janet McTeer and Cush Jumbo.
Brilliant casting.
I wonder when Donmar will get it?
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Post by Jan on Feb 1, 2016 18:49:10 GMT
Not a very imaginative choice, all-female Shrews are not that unusual, even I've seen one.
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Post by caa on Feb 1, 2016 20:01:17 GMT
Can't say this sounds all that great to me, I wonder how much will be cut and what the setting will be?
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Post by Polly1 on Feb 1, 2016 20:52:52 GMT
Can't say this sounds all that great to me, I wonder how much will be cut and what the setting will be? Female prison? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 9:05:38 GMT
Well, it initially does sound like a rehash of the all-female Shrew Phyllida Lloyd already directed for the Globe starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio, also open-air Shakespeare audiences tend to be a little less forgiving of innovation, so I'd imagine that - male actors aside - it's very likely to be a pretty traditional production.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 2, 2016 9:34:48 GMT
What a bizarre assumption!! Well, it initially does sound like a rehash of the all-female Shrew Phyllida Lloyd already directed for the Globe starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio, also open-air Shakespeare audiences tend to be a little less forgiving of innovation, so I'd imagine that - male actors aside - it's very likely to be a pretty traditional production. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 9:51:10 GMT
I call it "looking at the available clues and making an educated guess". We'll find out in summer, when I'll either graciously concede I was wrong or less graciously await your apology.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 9:58:25 GMT
The Public Theater promises "an all-female cast and a bold new take."
Baemax educatedly guesses "it's very likely to be a pretty traditional production."
Who will be right? The producing theatre or the forum member?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 10:05:17 GMT
You say that like those two ideas can't possibly exist alongside each other. I'm predicting standard period costuming the whole way (as opposed to, say, prison fatigues ), and though I'm not sure whether I think they're going to play the ending for laughter or horror, there'll certainly be a ton of humour before they get there (and whichever way they take the ending could be claimed as being bold, lord knows I've seen several productions for each approach). |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 2, 2016 18:53:52 GMT
The clue is in "bold new take" I suspect. And if it was to be set in a prison again, I hardly think P Lloyd would choose to stage it in the Park.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 2, 2016 19:11:59 GMT
Set in and around a lesbian pool tournament ?
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