The Kid Stays in the Picture - Royal Court

[Deleted]

first four performances cancelled and press night put back til 20th

[foxa]

Yes - I had booked for the 10th. Just off the phone with the box office and have rescheduled.

[Marwood]

I'm not seeing it until the last week of it's run, but hopefully the delay is due to minor technical issues (as happened with Hangmen) rather than anyone in the cast having issues with the script or not being up to par.

[nash16]

It's probably issues with the director...

[perfectspy]

I had a ticket for this but they cancelled the dates. I got an email then another one two hours after informing me they have refunded me thus leaving me no time at all to re-book. I tried to phone up but couldn't get through. Pretty shabby of the Royal Court to be honest. I'll try for a Monday ticket for £12.

[bordeaux]

Mar 3, 2017 23:39:32 GMT nash16 said:

It's probably issues with the director...

I imagine the Royal Court has shorter rehearsal periods than McBurney is used to. Certainly compared to the Schaubühne, his last outing. And Complicité shows tend to develop over several months.

[n1david]

I have just had to put two tix on sale for this on the Noticeboard. 23 Mar, central row B.

[Deleted]

They've just added a new cast member, which would be an interesting developmemt at this late stage if only it were someone more charismatic than Christian Camargo.

[lonlad]

Christian is in it now? Fantastic -- and very easy on the eye:-)

[Deleted]

Starts today, anyone seeing it? I goes Monday

[Deleted]

Lasts 2 hrs 30 with interval coming 90mins in which is where I left. I have no idea if this is terrible or genius but a couple of words of warning

A) if u know little on the guy, his movies and other famous people at the time read up
B) if you're sat anywhere near the front ring the box office in the morning and get moved as far to the back as possible or even get moved into a circle
C) I think my flaw was I was concentrating too hard. There were genuine moments I thought I was gonna throw up, cry and scream but I think I was trying to process it all and there is a f*** of a lot to process. Constantly. Maybe have a drink before and just go for a ride?

My brother LOVED it, I was distressed by it. He said it was like a music video, I thought it was an overwhelming, sensory raping nightmare come to life. And I REALLY wasn't prepared for it. Bruv says I should go back in the last week and maybe I will but tonight I'm gonna go home, have a VERY strong drink and maybe punch myself in the face a few times to get over this evening

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Mar 13, 2017 21:24:57 GMT mrslovettsmeatpie said:

Lasts 2 hrs 30 with interval coming 90mins in which is where I left. I have no idea if this is terrible or genius but a couple of words of warning

A) if u know little on the guy, his movies and other famous people at the time read up
B) if you're sat anywhere near the front ring the box office in the morning and get moved as far to the back as possible or even get moved into a circle
C) I think my flaw was I was concentrating too hard. There were genuine moments I thought I was gonna throw up, cry and scream but I think I was trying to process it all and there is a f*** of a lot to process. Constantly. Maybe have a drink before and just go for a ride?

My brother LOVED it, I was distressed by it. He said it was like a music video, I thought it was an overwhelming, sensory raping nightmare come to life. And I REALLY wasn't prepared for it. Bruv says I should go back in the last week and maybe I will but tonight I'm gonna go home, have a VERY strong drink and maybe punch myself in the face a few times to get over this evening

Sister

Why you left?

And why not sit at front

I sittin front row

[Marwood]

hmm, I'll be sitting front row - who to listen to? 

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2017 21:58:53 GMT @parsley said:

Mar 13, 2017 21:24:57 GMT mrslovettsmeatpie said:

Lasts 2 hrs 30 with interval coming 90mins in which is where I left. I have no idea if this is terrible or genius but a couple of words of warning

A) if u know little on the guy, his movies and other famous people at the time read up
B) if you're sat anywhere near the front ring the box office in the morning and get moved as far to the back as possible or even get moved into a circle
C) I think my flaw was I was concentrating too hard. There were genuine moments I thought I was gonna throw up, cry and scream but I think I was trying to process it all and there is a f*** of a lot to process. Constantly. Maybe have a drink before and just go for a ride?

My brother LOVED it, I was distressed by it. He said it was like a music video, I thought it was an overwhelming, sensory raping nightmare come to life. And I REALLY wasn't prepared for it. Bruv says I should go back in the last week and maybe I will but tonight I'm gonna go home, have a VERY strong drink and maybe punch myself in the face a few times to get over this evening

Sister

Why you left?

And why not sit at front

I sittin front row

How random, I was talking about u to my Bruv in the bar before hand!

Was the second act done in the same style?

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Mar 13, 2017 22:34:43 GMT mrslovettsmeatpie said:

Mar 13, 2017 21:58:53 GMT @parsley said:

Sister

Why you left?

And why not sit at front

I sittin front row

How random, I was talking about u to my Bruv in the bar before hand!

Was the second act done in the same style?

Sorry

My awful grammar and

Line spacing

Has lead to confusion

I am sitting front row but not seeing until
Next week

So was relying on MLMP for spoilers

Do advise please!!
Thanks

[foxa]

Interesting - I originally booked for the 10th and then changed to the 20th when they cancelled the previews. Box Office recommended front of circle rather than whatever stalls seats were available saying 'we don't know yet what the set will be like' so went for that. So maybe a good thing.

I read the book this was based on which was partly why I was interested in it. Evans did a lot of cocaine - I wonder if they were trying to capture that. He had a wild life: 7 marriages, big hit films, tremendous fall from grace.

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2017 22:50:06 GMT foxa said:

Interesting - I originally booked for the 10th and then changed to the 20th when they cancelled the previews. Box Office recommended front of circle rather than whatever stalls seats were available saying 'we don't know yet what the set will be like' so went for that. So maybe a good thing.

I read the book this was based on which was partly why I was interested in it. Evans did a lot of cocaine - I wonder if they were trying to capture that. He had a wild life: 7 marriages, big hit films, tremendous fall from grace.

I will wave to you

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Mar 13, 2017 22:41:17 GMT @parsley said:

Mar 13, 2017 22:34:43 GMT mrslovettsmeatpie said:

How random, I was talking about u to my Bruv in the bar before hand!

Was the second act done in the same style?

Sorry

My awful grammar and

Line spacing

Has lead to confusion

I am sitting front row but not seeing until
Next week

So was relying on MLMP for spoilers

Do advise please!!
Thanks

Oh good I'm glad I didn't miss u.

visually it is very full on. Think there are 4 surfaces things can b projected onto, and this is not to say different things aren't projected at the same time onto these surfaces. Example - the main surface may have an actor on stage projected onto it, at the same time as some bull fighting is projected but then they do a sort of hall of mirrors effect so so it's repeated  for miles, and then there is a photo of a face projected onto all of this at the same time. This may last a few seconds before it changes. And bear in mind there are another 3 surfaces which will all prob have separate things going on

and on top of this is a cast of BILLIONS (7 actors) who may be well doing lots of other things whilst the above is going on

oh and the script is broadcast on screens for the actors to "read" (not sure if this is coz of the cancelled previews or a device) which gets reflected in the main surface so if u can read backwards u can join in with them!

oh and each cast member has a microphone on their face (musical theatre style) and a normal mic which are so big u can never see who is speaking. It's all so very disorientating 

maybe be all of this is done specifically? I'm guessing maybe it is, so maybe this is hands down the most exciting thing u will see this week. Or maybe it's a mess. The fact u don't get to "see" the main guy until 89mins......genius?

iv been having a hard time sleeping and relationship issues this last week, got a sh*tter of a mouse problem in my bedroom and I cannot listen to both lyrics and music in songs at the same time (music always wins) so maybe this played into it somewhat. Maybe I should go again. I'm kinda hoping everyone hates it 

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2017 22:50:06 GMT foxa said:

Interesting - I originally booked for the 10th and then changed to the 20th when they cancelled the previews. Box Office recommended front of circle rather than whatever stalls seats were available saying 'we don't know yet what the set will be like' so went for that. So maybe a good thing.

I read the book this was based on which was partly why I was interested in it. Evans did a lot of cocaine - I wonder if they were trying to capture that. He had a wild life: 7 marriages, big hit films, tremendous fall from grace.

90 mins in I think they may mention a marriage? No cocaine. Zips through the movies

[callum]

I was also there tonight - Simon McBurney came out before it started and said that there hadn't been a dress rehearsal before Saturday so Saturday's performance was the 'dress rehearsal' and this was thought of as the first preview. I'm wondering what went wrong in the rehearsal process for the amount of line fluffs and technical errors that happened. The script was also up on a screen which was extremely visible from the slips where I sat. More or less, the first act was 75 mins, interval 15 mins, second act 60 mins - finished at 10.

For the show itself, it is a wild animal, constantly feeling volatile and raw and rough but crucially, never dull. None of the cast play one particular character, with Evans himself having his lines divided between the cast, though Danny Huston playing him in the autumn of his life and narrating the events on stage from behind a screen like Oz. The rest of the cast tell the story of Evans' childhood, his role in the making of Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Chinatown and The Cotton Club and his personal issues like his marriages and drug addiction. There are characters like Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway (ironically this time she read the right lines!), Robert Shapiro, Henry Kissinger and Richard Gere. The staging is very particular and wonder if it may change during the rest of the previews. It's extremely difficult to describe.

Definitely if you have tickets hold on to them, it's a wild ride but totally worth it.

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2017 23:13:16 GMT callum said:

I was also there tonight - Simon McBurney came out before it started and said that there hadn't been a dress rehearsal before Saturday so Saturday's performance was the 'dress rehearsal' and this was thought of as the first preview. I'm wondering what went wrong in the rehearsal process for the amount of line fluffs and technical errors that happened. The script was also up on a screen which was extremely visible from the slips where I sat. More or less, the first act was 75 mins, interval 15 mins, second act 60 mins - finished at 10.

For the show itself, it is a wild animal, constantly feeling volatile and raw and rough but crucially, never dull. None of the cast play one particular character, with Evans himself having his lines divided between the cast, though Danny Huston playing him in the autumn of his life and narrating the events on stage from behind a screen like Oz. The rest of the cast tell the story of Evans' childhood, his role in the making of Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Chinatown and The Cotton Club and his personal issues like his marriages and drug addiction. There are characters like Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway (ironically this time she read the right lines!), Robert Shapiro, Henry Kissinger and Richard Gere. The staging is very particular and wonder if it may change during the rest of the previews. It's extremely difficult to describe.

Definitely if you have tickets hold on to them, it's a wild ride but totally worth it.

The second act was in the same style then? I was kind of hoping it wud all be set in that room with the tv in at end of act 1 and wud make a full turn around and become a nice gentle comedy

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2017 23:07:17 GMT mrslovettsmeatpie said:

Mar 13, 2017 22:41:17 GMT @parsley said:

Sorry

My awful grammar and

Line spacing

Has lead to confusion

I am sitting front row but not seeing until
Next week

So was relying on MLMP for spoilers

Do advise please!!
Thanks

Oh good I'm glad I didn't miss u.

visually it is very full on. Think there are 4 surfaces things can b projected onto, and this is not to say different things aren't projected at the same time onto these surfaces. Example - the main surface may have an actor on stage projected onto it, at the same time as some bull fighting is projected but then they do a sort of hall of mirrors effect so so it's repeated  for miles, and then there is a photo of a face projected onto all of this at the same time. This may last a few seconds before it changes. And bear in mind there are another 3 surfaces which will all prob have separate things going on

and on top of this is a cast of BILLIONS (7 actors) who may be well doing lots of other things whilst the above is going on

oh and the script is broadcast on screens for the actors to "read" (not sure if this is coz of the cancelled previews or a device) which gets reflected in the main surface so if u can read backwards u can join in with them!

oh and each cast member has a microphone on their face (musical theatre style) and a normal mic which are so big u can never see who is speaking. It's all so very disorientating 

maybe be all of this is done specifically? I'm guessing maybe it is, so maybe this is hands down the most exciting thing u will see this week. Or maybe it's a mess. The fact u don't get to "see" the main guy until 89mins......genius?

iv been having a hard time sleeping and relationship issues this last week, got a sh*tter of a mouse problem in my bedroom and I cannot listen to both lyrics and music in songs at the same time (music always wins) so maybe this played into it somewhat. Maybe I should go again. I'm kinda hoping everyone hates it 

Good god

Sounds interesting!

Thanks

I will have to look out for Foxa

[Deleted]

Mar 13, 2017 23:13:16 GMT callum said:

I was also there tonight - Simon McBurney came out before it started and said that there hadn't been a dress rehearsal before Saturday so Saturday's performance was the 'dress rehearsal' and this was thought of as the first preview. I'm wondering what went wrong in the rehearsal process for the amount of line fluffs and technical errors that happened. The script was also up on a screen which was extremely visible from the slips where I sat. More or less, the first act was 75 mins, interval 15 mins, second act 60 mins - finished at 10.

For the show itself, it is a wild animal, constantly feeling volatile and raw and rough but crucially, never dull. None of the cast play one particular character, with Evans himself having his lines divided between the cast, though Danny Huston playing him in the autumn of his life and narrating the events on stage from behind a screen like Oz. The rest of the cast tell the story of Evans' childhood, his role in the making of Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Chinatown and The Cotton Club and his personal issues like his marriages and drug addiction. There are characters like Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway (ironically this time she read the right lines!), Robert Shapiro, Henry Kissinger and Richard Gere. The staging is very particular and wonder if it may change during the rest of the previews. It's extremely difficult to describe.

Definitely if you have tickets hold on to them, it's a wild ride but totally worth it.

I hate this sort of excuse making

Oh we are doing your heart transplant

But it's the first one we have done

Don't worry though

We have the instructions pinned up on the wall

Theatre can be so twatty

[callum]

Mar 13, 2017 23:18:31 GMT mrslovettsmeatpie said:

Mar 13, 2017 23:13:16 GMT callum said:

I was also there tonight - Simon McBurney came out before it started and said that there hadn't been a dress rehearsal before Saturday so Saturday's performance was the 'dress rehearsal' and this was thought of as the first preview. I'm wondering what went wrong in the rehearsal process for the amount of line fluffs and technical errors that happened. The script was also up on a screen which was extremely visible from the slips where I sat. More or less, the first act was 75 mins, interval 15 mins, second act 60 mins - finished at 10.

For the show itself, it is a wild animal, constantly feeling volatile and raw and rough but crucially, never dull. None of the cast play one particular character, with Evans himself having his lines divided between the cast, though Danny Huston playing him in the autumn of his life and narrating the events on stage from behind a screen like Oz. The rest of the cast tell the story of Evans' childhood, his role in the making of Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Chinatown and The Cotton Club and his personal issues like his marriages and drug addiction. There are characters like Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway (ironically this time she read the right lines!), Robert Shapiro, Henry Kissinger and Richard Gere. The staging is very particular and wonder if it may change during the rest of the previews. It's extremely difficult to describe.

Definitely if you have tickets hold on to them, it's a wild ride but totally worth it.

The second act was in the same style then? I was kind of hoping it wud all be set in that room with the tv in at end of act 1 and wud make a full turn around and become a nice gentle comedy

At the interval I thought from then on it would be Danny Huston playing Evans on stage

SPOILER: Click to show

but the second half is identical to the first in terms of style - you only see him as Evans behind the screen or hear him making voice over. Act II is more focused on Evans' personal life but still has the rotating door of celebrity name-dropping and archival soundbites.

 If you didn't like the first half, you wouldn't have liked the second.

Perhaps I'm being too spoilerific in these posts so admin feel free to edit what you think is appropriate.

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Nov 4, 2016 23:41:14 GMT @honouredguest said:

Everything in the season is tantalisingly promising but also highly unpredictable, with so little information available about any of the shows. Even with Road, a very wellknown text, we know absolutely nothing about the planned production except that John Tiffany is directing and it's the traditional audience seating configuration. But Simon McBurney's and Alice Birch & Katie Mitchell's shows could both be absolutely anything at this stage.

I'm only reading this thread because I hadn't intended to see this show. I would definitely have avoided this thread if I were going, and would've tried to keep clear of any details elsewhere.

It sounds as if it's well within the strand of Simon McBurney's Complicite shows, but perhaps at the busier end of the spectrum than The Encounter was?

Actually, I'm intrigued now to see it!