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Post by michalnowicki on Aug 30, 2017 12:47:49 GMT
Thanks so much! Every day is a school day! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 23:08:38 GMT
Well. There's some lovely accents on show here. Shame none of them hit anywhere near Mississippi.
Jack O'Connell almost heads there via Peckham and downtown Melbourne but he's got a delicious body and he shows it off so frequently that I'm happy to forgive him. I'm pleased to confirm that even from further back in the stalls I had no need of my binoculars. Oh my. I must say that normally I'd have been disappointed when he put on some clothes but he looked so fetching in his white silk pyjamas that I quite acquiesced. To be fair to him, he really does kick into gear from the second act and gives rather a wonderful performance.
Sienna Miller, God loves a trier however I don't know if she'd read the play before tonight but I very much doubt it. Having said that, I very much liked her sparkly frock. Liza Minnelli would like it back at the end of the run though. Some very gratuitous nudity from her though.
Lisa Palfrey as Big Mama was terrific too. Simple set. A couple of kids who clearly screwed up the audition for 'Annie' and ended up round the corner and some dedicated crutch acting from Jack to appreciate too. And crotch acting too while we're at it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 8:49:45 GMT
Lisa Palfrey as Big Mama was terrific too. Hasn't she withdrawn due to a surgical emergency with her appendix? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 10:13:20 GMT
Lisa Palfrey as Big Mama was terrific too. Hasn't she withdrawn due to a surgical emergency with her appendix? Has she? She's still in the programme. Well whoever is standing in for her was smashing. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 10:20:54 GMT
Hasn't she withdrawn due to a surgical emergency with her appendix? Has she? She's still in the programme. Well whoever is standing in for her was smashing. You were right in your first post! Lisa Palfrey tweeted yesterday: "Big Mama's back in town" so you were lucky to see her back after a week's recovery from her emergency appendectomy! |
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Post by michalnowicki on Aug 31, 2017 18:37:41 GMT
Looks like we'll get an NT Live of the Cat! |
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 31, 2017 18:44:16 GMT
Wow....didn't realise there was so much demand! Thinking aloud; will there ever have been so much full-frontal nudity in an NT Live before? And considering how these filmed performances can 'live on'...!
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Post by n1david on Aug 31, 2017 19:12:16 GMT
Wow....didn't realise there was so much demand! Thinking aloud; will there ever have been so much full-frontal nudity in an NT Live before? And considering how these filmed performances can 'live on'...! Although remember the NT Live Frankensteins had loincloths, which they didn't on unfilmed nights, for exactly that reason... |
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 31, 2017 19:23:06 GMT
Wow....didn't realise there was so much demand! Thinking aloud; will there ever have been so much full-frontal nudity in an NT Live before? And considering how these filmed performances can 'live on'...! Although remember the NT Live Frankensteins had loincloths, which they didn't on unfilmed nights, for exactly that reason... Ah! That's interesting, as I haven't seen Frankenstein. Will be interested to see how they get around it for this, if that's their plan. Not that it's the most important thing about the production & screening, of course..... |
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Post by Rory on Aug 31, 2017 22:15:26 GMT
Well hopefully the live capture will preserve the whole spirit of the production as it is being seen by audiences. If they have faith in their artistic decision to have nudity in the show in the first place then they should have the courage of their convictions for the NT Live. Loincloths be damned!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2017 23:01:24 GMT
EDIT: Didn't realise NTLive was announced before Baz tweeted it - apologies!
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Post by nash16 on Aug 31, 2017 23:45:43 GMT
Wow....didn't realise there was so much demand! Thinking aloud; will there ever have been so much full-frontal nudity in an NT Live before? And considering how these filmed performances can 'live on'...! Based on past NTLive's with nudity (thinking Frankenstein here when B & JL had to wear a weird sort of y fronts), they won't be allowed to be naked as it reduces sales to certain countries. The big schlong will be wrapped up one fears. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 10:32:31 GMT
Both Frankensteins were live NT Lives.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will be shown several months after recording. It can be pixellated for "certain territories".
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Post by crabtree on Sept 2, 2017 11:04:44 GMT
The Chekhov gun is a great rule of drama - like a superhero having a talent, he has to use somewhere along the way. Or with Dorothy's friend singing about only having a heart, they have to follow that through. In the original Half Sixpence, as I remember, they ignored this rule. Kipps went on about having money to burn and buying a banjo. well he had money to burn, but methinks the banjo was forgotten. Or, linking this idea to this production loosely, in the film boogie nights they witter on about Dirk Diggler's, er, talent. We would have felt cheated if there had been ne'er a glimpse. And a piano on stage has to get played.
And as for loinclothgate with Cat, I guess subtle camera angles will be the answer, sadly.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 14:43:05 GMT
I mean, I'm enjoying it thus far. Ita a fantastic text and the production is great to look at in the design aspects. Jack is the standout of the two leads, which I kinda expected based on word of mouth. Though he doesn't say much, he is fully in character throughout, you cant help but watch him. It helps to he is pretty much naked in the shower, or in a towel on the bed the whole time. Its a great performance, with him really going for it in the final scene of Act I, it was great. Sienna, credit and respect where due, it's a star vehicle role that doesn't demand too much acting wise but having to remember a whole act which is pretty much monologue and she never leaves the stage, its impressive! Accent is good, she's consistently in character, she looks great and when she gets her boobs out, they look great too. I'm enjoying it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 16:24:44 GMT
Not too much to add, I enjoyed it, a perfectly respectable production of a stellar play. The cast are good all around, Jack is stellar, truly fantastic. A nice afternoon |
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Post by michalnowicki on Sept 2, 2017 20:19:41 GMT
And as for loinclothgate with Cat Every time I see the word "loincloth" I read it as "lioncloth". |
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Post by bee on Sept 3, 2017 7:36:03 GMT
I saw this yesterday afternoon. On the whole I thought it was very good. Siena Miller, Jack O'Connell and Colm Meaney were very impressive. I'm not sure the nudity was really necessary but it didn't bother me. I did think the final act dragged on a bit, but that might have been because by that point my ability to maintain interest in the play was starting to be overwhelmed by the pain in my legs, caused by the medieval torture device which passes for a seat on the dress circle.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 16:38:38 GMT
Watching the show and sitting at the interval, I couldn't help but think how its a good production, but it is pretty much sold out for the entire run, or just single seats left and I just wish that those people were going to something a bit, well, better quite frankly. Apologia has struggled selling, but I thought it was much better than this and deserves much more!
I'm also somewhat surprised that it has done so well, as Sienna and Jack, yes they are names, but they are not A List, first class style names at the moment, so its amazing these two have managed to sell out a run. Although granted its a name playwright and play in a small theatre so that comes into play too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 17:56:08 GMT
Sienna and Jack, yes they are names, but they are not A List, first class style names at the moment, so its amazing these two have managed to sell out a run. Is there are a universal A list anymore? Jack O'Connell is as A list as you can get for some people, and Sienna Miller also has her fans! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 18:03:27 GMT
Sienna and Jack, yes they are names, but they are not A List, first class style names at the moment, so its amazing these two have managed to sell out a run. Is there are a universal A list anymore? Jack O'Connell is as A list as you can get for some people, and Sienna Miller also has her fans! Evidently! I'm just surprised they had the amount of selling power they actually do. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 18:08:25 GMT
Also, I expect that many people booked on the strength of it being a Young Vic production.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 18:13:05 GMT
Also, I expect that many people booked on the strength of it being a Young Vic production. To the general public does thst make much of a differenc though really? Because even being a theatre fan, I didnt even realise it was a Young Vic production until I read my programme in the theatre. |
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Post by callum on Sept 3, 2017 19:48:12 GMT
To a lot of the Instagram-obsessed, Vogue-reading, Made in Chelsea-watching women in their 20s that frankly can afford theatre tickets, Sienna Miller is as A-list as they come.
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Post by Maz on Sept 11, 2017 22:08:14 GMT
Finally got a todaytix ticket. Will read up what everyone thought about it, and share a few of my own thoughts tomorrow. {Spoiler - click to view}What a waste of cake though. And that carpet... 😬 Shake & vac? |
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