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Post by chameleon on Sept 15, 2017 22:25:54 GMT
This is an excellent play - subtle, funny, angry and moving - and though it was written (and is set) in the Fifties, it could have been written yesterday. Some fine performances, too. Highly recommended.
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Post by showgirl on Sept 16, 2017 4:56:58 GMT
Agree - I really enjoyed this when I made a special trip to Bath in order to see it last December. If only I had known that it would be the one play of all the many from the Studio at the Theatre Royal, Bath, to transfer to London! But I'd waited, and continue to wait for even one of the rest and I, too, recommend this.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 9:30:25 GMT
Agree - I really enjoyed this when I made a special trip to Bath in order to see it last December. If only I had known that it would be the one play of all the many from the Studio at the Theatre Royal, Bath, to transfer to London! But I'd waited, and continue to wait for even one of the rest and I, too, recommend this. Each year, Laurence Boswall programmes four plays in the Ustinov Studio, two in the spring and two in the autumn. Spring 2016 - Right Now was co-produced with the Bush and Traverse and played at both theatres straight after Bath. Autumn 2016 - Trouble in Mind has now transferred to the Print Room at the Coronet. Spring 2017 - The Mentor transferred to the Vaudeville. So precisely HALF of the recent productions have transferred to London. |
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Post by showgirl on Sept 16, 2017 9:58:36 GMT
Just not those I wished to see - which I omitted to explain/list. Sod's Law but this transfer is very welcome. Same with the RSC not transferring the new work with the best reviews, but we've had that discussion.
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Post by Jan on Sept 16, 2017 12:45:58 GMT
This is an excellent play - subtle, funny, angry and moving - and though it was written (and is set) in the Fifties, it could have been written yesterday. Some fine performances, too. Highly recommended. I have been thinking about going to this - as a local resident it seems I get a discount - what's the running time (I assume it's still their rotten rows of chairs instead of proper seats) ? |
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Post by showgirl on Sept 16, 2017 13:18:42 GMT
Hope someone else can advise as the only running time I recall is for my limping sprint back to the station afterwards -but I think the play was c 2 h 30.
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Post by chameleon on Sept 16, 2017 13:37:29 GMT
About 2h30, yes. & I was expecting those chairs, but they have proper seats these days...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2017 16:10:11 GMT
It was about 2h 40m in Bath. (This is etched on my memory because it was too late for the last train home so I had to get a train to Bristol then trek to the coach stop for an onward coach home - I'm so dedicated to theatre)!
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 16, 2017 16:40:17 GMT
Agree - I really enjoyed this when I made a special trip to Bath in order to see it last December. If only I had known that it would be the one play of all the many from the Studio at the Theatre Royal, Bath, to transfer to London! But I'd waited, and continue to wait for even one of the rest and I, too, recommend this. Each year, Laurence Boswall programmes four plays in the Ustinov Studio, two in the spring and two in the autumn. Spring 2016 - Right Now was co-produced with the Bush and Traverse and played at both theatres straight after Bath. Autumn 2016 - Trouble in Mind has now transferred to the Print Room at the Coronet. Spring 2017 - The Mentor transferred to the Vaudeville. So precisely HALF of the recent productions have transferred to London. And this autumn there is another Kehlmann/Hampton/Boswell production - Christmas Eve, a 'thriller' - and a Broadway success The Open House by Will Eno directed by Michael Boyd. No casting announced yet. |
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Post by peelee on Sept 29, 2017 18:40:44 GMT
A nice ensemble production which I saw last week and thought I'd recommended already. This is worth seeing.
50 yards from Notting Hill Gate station (District, Circle, and Central lines) and buses stopping by the theatre door.
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Post by barelyathletic on Oct 11, 2017 9:57:01 GMT
This is brilliant. One of the best things I've seen this year. A superb cast and a very strong piece of writing that tackles similar themes to An Octoroon, but in a more naturalistic way. Hard to believe it was written in 1955. It feels very fresh and relevant. I thought the Print Rooms the perfect setting for this, as the action takes place in a Broadway Theatre. The architecture of the old Coronet cinema provides a very atmospheric backdrop. Tanya Moodie is absolutely outstanding, and should win every acting award she is eligible for. Catch it if you can before it ends on Saturday.
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Post by jadnoop on Sept 23, 2021 11:18:37 GMT
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Post by princeton on Sept 23, 2021 23:48:50 GMT
Different/new production - same leading actress (Tanya Moodie)
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Post by dlevi on Sept 24, 2021 7:57:02 GMT
I saw it at the Coronet and the play proved to be quite provocative if a little schematic and old-fashioned in its construction. Ms Moodie was terrific if a little over-the-top in the play-within-the-play sequences. I don't think Laurence Boswell staged it with the detail that the play requires, so I'll be interested to see what a new director brings to it. What a remarkable time for this "forgotten" play - a production on Broadway (starring La Chanze) in November and then here at the National a month later.
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