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Post by theatreliker on Dec 7, 2016 20:48:15 GMT
Dominic Dromgoole will lead a season of Wilde's works at a Nimax Theatre next Autumn starting with A Woman of No Importance. It's part of a broader series called the 'Proscenium Arch' series. According to Baz.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 21:44:06 GMT
This could please the revivals brigade.
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Post by lynette on Dec 7, 2016 22:16:12 GMT
Fun. Any dark horses in the oeuvre?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 22:22:04 GMT
Fingers crossed for "Vera, or The Nihilists" and "The Duchess of Padua"
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Post by Jon on Dec 7, 2016 23:44:42 GMT
I wonder what theatre they'll go to, I assume it'll be the Garrick or Apollo
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 8, 2016 6:57:45 GMT
Fingers crossed for "Vera, or The Nihilists" and "The Duchess of Padua" I think we all know they wont happen, bit puzzled by this season. Why?? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 7:03:47 GMT
It does seem odd - would make more sense if this was a season put on by Dromgoole, starting with the Wilde play. Which maybe is what it is.
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Post by stefy69 on Dec 8, 2016 7:33:00 GMT
Ooh ! Well I'm pleased and excited by the prospect  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 9:28:39 GMT
It does seem odd - would make more sense if this was a season put on by Dromgoole, starting with the Wilde play. Which maybe is what it is. In 2009, Dominic Dromgoole published a book: "The Mirror Behind the Curtain: A Century of Great Dramatists (Diaries, Letters and Essays): Perspectives on Leading Playwrights Writing for the Proscenium Stage". It sounds as though this is a commercial project of West End productions from this body of plays, curated by Dromgoole and with some directed by him, and commencing with a look at Oscar Wilde. I guess he can move on to other playwrights when it seems right, depending on how the Wilde plays go down. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 12:04:01 GMT
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 8, 2016 12:25:15 GMT
He could try giving it a bit of an edge. Maybe set it in a women's prison? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 12:28:45 GMT
Will wait to hear more details but this sounds duller than a very dull thing. As Baemax says, these three plays are performed regularly, and usually in a Proscenium Arch theatre so what's he trying to do here?
"There's only one thing worse than a season of Oscar Wilde plays produced by Dominic Dromgoole, and that's a season of Oscar Wilde plays NOT produced by Dominic Dromgoole"
"Very witty, Wilde"
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Post by nash16 on Dec 8, 2016 12:39:30 GMT
It sounds like the Proscenium is a bit of a red herring and these will actually be played at Nimax's new theatre nr Tottenham Court Road maybe? It should be open by then.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 13:06:40 GMT
It sounds like the Proscenium is a bit of a red herring and these will actually be played at Nimax's new theatre nr Tottenham Court Road maybe? It should be open by then. Nica Burns said: “I am delighted to announce a new collaboration with former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole. Together, we are creating a new company, named Classic Spring, dedicated to celebrating the work of some of our greatest proscenium playwrights in the architecture that they wrote for, and exploring how the change that they effected in their own day still resonates today.” So, nash16 thinks the press launch is some cunning double bluff?! WHY?! |
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Post by stefy69 on Dec 8, 2016 13:35:59 GMT
I may be wrong but I didn't think the new Astoria Theatre on Tottenham Court Road was due to be started until late 2017 ?
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 8, 2016 13:57:39 GMT
Just read the Stage article, it promises a season of Shaw to follow Wilde,much more interesting esp if they pick some of the lesser done plays.
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Post by Jon on Dec 8, 2016 15:11:53 GMT
I may be wrong but I didn't think the new Astoria Theatre on Tottenham Court Road was due to be started until late 2017 ? The new Astoria won't be ready until 2020 at the earliest |
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Post by zak97 on Dec 8, 2016 15:22:10 GMT
I suspect this will be for the Garrick. If, as the Stage article suggest, the plays will be a theatre Wilde had written for, and as An Ideal Husband was due to go into the Garrick, before being rejected by the manager, I suspect the season will be there. I believe two of the other plays mentioned in the article went into the now non-exist St James.
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Post by theatremadness on Dec 8, 2016 15:22:17 GMT
Just read the Stage article, it promises a season of Shaw to follow Wilde,much more interesting esp if they pick some of the lesser done plays. Bet they do Pygmalion!!! |
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 8, 2016 15:48:27 GMT
I suspect this will be for the Garrick. If, as the Stage article suggest, the plays will be a theatre Wilde had written for, and as An Ideal Husband was due to go into the Garrick, before being rejected by the manager, I suspect the season will be there. I believe two of the other plays mentioned in the article went into the now non-exist St James. I thought A Woman of No Importance was premiered in the Theatre Royal Haymarket, as was an Ideal Husband (presumably the latter after rejection from the Garrick as you say). There is a plaque (from the Oscar Wilde Society) on this on the wall near the stage door of the TRH, which lists both as first performances there. But that's my limit of information! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 15:51:48 GMT
TRH isn't a Nimax theatre.
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 8, 2016 15:55:22 GMT
TRH isn't a Nimax theatre. I know - it was about premier location of the 2 plays! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 15:57:20 GMT
Yes, and the discussion was also about how that might influence the choice of revival theatre.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 16:00:19 GMT
Presumably it was due to confusion with the well-known play that they didn't call the production company "Warhorse Productions"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 16:05:15 GMT
Classic Spring.
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