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Oct 24, 2017 11:14:13 GMT
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Post by jason71 on Oct 24, 2017 11:14:13 GMT
Found out yesterday that Macbeth is going to be done without an interval. I'll wait for the moaning about this to commence
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2017 12:07:02 GMT
Interesting! The 1970s Trevor Nunn / Ian McKellen / Judi Dench version was 2 hours 15 minutes with no interval. Also the 2000 Anthony Sher version was 2 hours 10 straight through.
Moaning probably justifiable in this case (depending on the eventual running time) unlike Follies although on the other hand it may make life easier for travelling back from Stratford afterwards!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 24, 2017 12:37:40 GMT
It actually doesn't make getting back from Stratford any easier by train
Your options are 21.39 or 23.15
So your only hope for getting the 21.39 one is for it to be a 7pm start - and as evening shows are 7.15pm starts for this production, I would resign yourself to a bit of a wait... or hope for a tight 2 hour run time and a taxi waiting to get you to the station!
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Oct 24, 2017 16:20:59 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 24, 2017 16:20:59 GMT
Excellent! Macbeth is shortish and def suits being done straight through.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:03:55 GMT
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Post by Jan on Oct 24, 2017 18:03:55 GMT
Excellent! Macbeth is shortish and def suits being done straight through. Agree. I like Tempest straight through too. There was one famous John Barton production where they did Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus as a double bill with a single interval between them (I think It was those two plays). |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2017 18:23:16 GMT
It was. Rumour (or publicity) had it at the time that the Dulux dog from Comedy of Errors trotted on stage during Titus Andronicus and ate the pies containing the family members.
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Oct 24, 2017 19:09:58 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Oct 24, 2017 19:09:58 GMT
Excellent! Macbeth is shortish and def suits being done straight through. Agree. I like Tempest straight through too. There was one famous John Barton production where they did Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus as a double bill with a single interval between them (I think It was those two plays). Seen a few Tempests dont recall one without an interval. Julius Caesar is of course the other biggie best done straight through. |
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Post by lynette on Oct 24, 2017 21:37:09 GMT
I can’t recall seeing any without an interval. Maybe the Macbeth in German I once saw, the one with the chicken stabbing mentioned many times here..
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Oct 24, 2017 21:42:00 GMT
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Post by Polly1 on Oct 24, 2017 21:42:00 GMT
The Donmar all female Tempest was straight through, as indeed was their JC.
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Post by lynette on Oct 24, 2017 21:44:10 GMT
The Donmar all female Tempest was straight through, as indeed was their JC. Ok, saw the JC. Obs didn’t bother me. |
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Oct 25, 2017 3:31:52 GMT
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Post by Jan on Oct 25, 2017 3:31:52 GMT
Agree. I like Tempest straight through too. There was one famous John Barton production where they did Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus as a double bill with a single interval between them (I think It was those two plays). Seen a few Tempests dont recall one without an interval. Julius Caesar is of course the other biggie best done straight through. Just off the top of my head I think the Peter Hall/Michael Bryant Tempest has no interval. I just heard something about an old production of Tempest, it was outdoors beside an ornamental lake. At the end when Ariel is released he ran off across the surface of the lake, they’d rigged up some hidden stepping stones just below the surface. Imagine seeing that effect. Similar to that Almeida one where Ariel first emerged from the middle of an on-stage pool. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 5:42:00 GMT
The Old Vic Bridge Project Tempest had no interval
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Oct 25, 2017 6:48:51 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 25, 2017 6:48:51 GMT
Seen a few Tempests dont recall one without an interval. Julius Caesar is of course the other biggie best done straight through. Just off the top of my head I think the Peter Hall/Michael Bryant Tempest has no interval. I just heard something about an old production of Tempest, it was outdoors beside an ornamental lake. At the end when Ariel is released he ran off across the surface of the lake, they’d rigged up some hidden stepping stones just below the surface. Imagine seeing that effect. Similar to that Almeida one where Ariel first emerged from the middle of an on-stage pool. That was Coghill's production staged in the gardens of Worcester College just down the road from me here in Oxford. It is a wonderful setting and that production has gone down in local history. I think it was in the late 40s and people still talk of that moment |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 11:05:47 GMT
The Duchess of Malfi is fantastic. A real crackle of scandal before the interval. Act 2 quite literally a bloodbath. Strong performances all around, with Joan Iyiola outsanding as the Duchess. Amanda Hadinque as her waiting-woman also great - wily and compassionate. May well make a return visit in a few weeks for the open understudy rehearsal.
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Post by martin1965 on Mar 7, 2018 12:09:01 GMT
The Duchess of Malfi is fantastic. A real crackle of scandal before the interval. Act 2 quite literally a bloodbath. Strong performances all around, with Joan Iyiola outsanding as the Duchess. Amanda Hadinque as her waiting-woman also great - wily and compassionate. May well make a return visit in a few weeks for the open understudy rehearsal. Oh good, going on saturday week, love the play but was a bit nervous after the White Devil farrago a couple of years back. |
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Post by moelhywel on Mar 7, 2018 14:17:48 GMT
Glad to hear a good report of this as we're going on Monday, having had to rebook my tickets from Friday last when we couldn't go because of the snow.
Would it be possible to have separate threads for each of the plays being performed at Stratford as it makes it much easier to read comments on each of them?
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Post by lynette on Mar 7, 2018 15:38:34 GMT
The Duchess of Malfi is fantastic. A real crackle of scandal before the interval. Act 2 quite literally a bloodbath. Strongt don’t rate this director. performances all around, with Joan Iyiola outsanding as the Duchess. Amanda Hadinque as her waiting-woman also great - wily and compassionate. May well make a return visit in a few weeks for the open understudy rehearsal. Oh good, going on saturday week, love the play but was a bit nervous after the White Devil farrago a couple of years back. I didn’t book for this because we walked out of the The White Devil and I just don’t rate this director. So good to know this is ok and I’m sorry I will be missing it. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2018 10:45:39 GMT
Mentioned in a couple of individual production threads already, but London transfers have been announced for Macbeth, Merry Wives of Windsor and Romeo and Juliet to the Barbican, plus Imperium to the Gielgud. Barbican member's booking for the first three opens on 22nd March - hopefully the front row £10 seats will be available again  |
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