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Post by learfan on Aug 20, 2018 7:16:08 GMT
I would rather sit through 3.5 hours of something brilliant than 90 minutes of something dire. I have had some epic days in the theatre that flew by in what seemed like seconds. And some short trips that felt like an age. Quality over quantity - sure. But a great piece of theatre can command your attention for 4 hours - it just has to be great! Agree. For example the Trevor Nunn Othello was over 4 hours but totally engrossing. It was long wasn't it? But as you say v good. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 8:25:33 GMT
Angel Station is closest tube? Haven’t been here before and trying to expand from West End. Saw his Hamlet production last year and loved it. Yep, its pretty much equidistant from Angel and Highbury & Islington. Short walk. I find the street from Highbury & Islington is usually slightly less crowded than the street from Angel, and my favourite places to eat are on that side as well, though there are plenty of eateries on the walk from Angel, and the green is a nice place to sit if you're running a little ahead of schedule (because lord knows there's not that much foyer space at the Almeida if you like to sit down while waiting to see a play). It also depends, if you're travelling by tube, what your journey looks like. If I had a matinee at the Bridge Theatre, I'd be on the Northern line therefore getting off at Angel (which apparently has the longest escalator in the London underground system, if you're interested in that kind of thing), but if I were coming from the Victoria direction, then it's just easier to stay on the tube until Highbury & Islington than to change at King's Cross. (If you can, avoid changing lines at King's Cross like the plague, the signs they've put up to direct the flow of foot traffic usually means that you'll be going a really roundabout route to get to your next train unless you've read up on sneaky shortcuts beforehand.) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 9:06:54 GMT
Oh, the big ol' hoardings around H&I station are down now, you can walk straight up to it again. Last I went, anyway.
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Post by Polly1 on Aug 20, 2018 9:07:28 GMT
How are renovations going at Highbury and Islington? Both the station and streets around it were very congested during the early summer, so I used Angel. Not sure if they have finished the works now, but for a while you couldn't use some exits from the station, and outside everybody had to shuffle in single file in a small area of the road. Pretty sure they've finished now, I don't remember any hoardings last time I went (for The Writer). I think it is a shorter walk from H&I. |
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Post by n1david on Aug 20, 2018 9:15:07 GMT
Oh, the big ol' hoardings around H&I station are down now, you can walk straight up to it again. Last I went, anyway. They're back. TfL have started the project to remove the roundabout at H&I, and pedestrianise the Western arm (the one outside McDonalds). So pedestrians are caged in again, and there will be changes to walking routes at H&I until the end of next year. To add insult to injury, additionally they're having to re-lay all the new paving outside H&I station, as that was done wrongly, so the contractor will be re-doing all that paving for the next couple of months. |
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Post by Jan on Aug 20, 2018 13:56:32 GMT
Agree. For example the Trevor Nunn Othello was over 4 hours but totally engrossing. It was long wasn't it? But as you say v good. The billed running time was four hours and the actual time when I saw it was a little longer. But it seemed much less. |
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Post by foxa on Sept 3, 2018 18:25:06 GMT
I think Lyndsey Marshall and Nicholas Farrell are the only actors in that list whose work I know. (From their credits there is at least one other I have seen, but I have no recollection of them.)
Which is fine.
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2018 6:26:00 GMT
I think Lyndsey Marshall and Nicholas Farrell are the only actors in that list whose work I know. (From their credits there is at least one other I have seen, but I have no recollection of them.) Which is fine. I like Nicholas Farrell, haven't seen him for a while. The rest I'm not familiar with. Casting is very important in this particular play, it is more of an ensemble piece than a star vehicle, so the lack of any big names is not a problem. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2018 21:09:14 GMT
Some posts have been removed from this thread at the request of Robert Icke’s agent.
Let’s move on please.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2018 22:05:49 GMT
What do i mean when using the word 'long?' A play that clocks in at over three hours. After 10.30,self indulgent. We all know that by now. You’re very generous lynette! 9:45 max. At that point I’m gathering up my shopping, shaking the last ice cubes from the bottom of my plastic glass and heading for the bus! |
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Post by Jan on Sept 6, 2018 7:15:42 GMT
Here's an interesting published article about Robert Icke where he sticks the boot into critics "A lot of them, they just aren't good enough at criticism" and where he says he walks out of shows (by other directors) at the interval "all the time" because "Certainly more evenings at the theatre are boring than non-boring". www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2017/07/cruel-be-kind-radicalism-robert-ickePretty good at dishing out criticism isn't he ? |
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Post by Polly1 on Sept 6, 2018 9:19:07 GMT
Here's an interesting published article about Robert Icke where he sticks the boot into critics "A lot of them, they just aren't good enough at criticism" and where he says he walks out of shows (by other directors) at the interval "all the time" because "Certainly more evenings at the theatre are boring than non-boring". www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2017/07/cruel-be-kind-radicalism-robert-ickePretty good at dishing out criticism isn't he ? Has anyone ever seen Robert Icke and Parsley in the same room? |
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Post by Jan on Sept 6, 2018 9:36:18 GMT
Here's an interesting published article about Robert Icke where he sticks the boot into critics "A lot of them, they just aren't good enough at criticism" and where he says he walks out of shows (by other directors) at the interval "all the time" because "Certainly more evenings at the theatre are boring than non-boring". www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2017/07/cruel-be-kind-radicalism-robert-ickePretty good at dishing out criticism isn't he ? Has anyone ever seen Robert Icke and Parsley in the same room? I did wonder About That |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 10:00:13 GMT
Has anyone ever seen Robert Icke and Parsley in the same room? I did wonder About That Oh has his agent been complaining on The Humans thread as well?! No Opinions On Anything Allowed (yeah yeah this will be deleted in like 30 seconds, because comments about women/working class people/general derogatory behaviour is fine but commenting on that behaviour isn't) Anyway the roadworks are still up at H&I I blame the directors for that too. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 10:54:42 GMT
I'm going to re-post the link to the casting announcement so that discussion of those who have been cast makes sense in the context of the thread. In deference to the deletions however, I won't name any of the actors who have previously worked for this director, at this theatre, on more than one occasion, whose absences from the cast list could be considered more of note than their inclusion would have been, which regular theatre-goers therefore might like to make a light-hearted remark about. www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/wild-duck-almeida-casting-robert-icke_47506.html(And if even *that's* too much for Mr Icke's agent, then please feel free to edit the post (as I know mods are able to do and have done previously) - rather than delete it - so that only the link remains.) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 11:10:50 GMT
We'll have none of your frivolity about casting HERE young lady. Only SERIOUS discussions of the SERIOUS art.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 13:35:06 GMT
Ooooh, there might actually be a real duck in this. How smashing.  Just not tonight. It's been cancelled. I hope it's actually one of the cast and not because everyone is tucking into duck a l'orange. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 13:49:47 GMT
Yep, not just a promotional thing, there is a duck clearly visible (well, incredibly blurrily visible because it's in the extreme foreground of one shot, but still) in at least one of the rehearsal images.
Hoprefully the production hasn't sold so well that the people who were planning to go tonight can't rearrange to a different performance!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 13:58:12 GMT
Is one able to actually train a duck?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 14:04:40 GMT
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Post by lynette on Oct 15, 2018 15:25:41 GMT
If you are the first living creature a duck sees when hatched, then you are imprinted and it will follow you wherever you go.
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Post by n1david on Oct 15, 2018 16:20:02 GMT
Walked past the Almeida a little while ago en route to Company.
The main lobby area is still filled with equipment/props/set. So wouldn’t have been an especially comfortable night for audiences with no lobby space.
Shame about that cast illness.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 16:23:52 GMT
Walked past the Almeida a little while ago en route to Company. Goodness. That's a walk and a half. I get worn out walking from the Almeida to Ottolenghi opposite for a cake never mind to London's glitzy West End. Do you do that power walking that they do in the Olympics?  |
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Post by n1david on Oct 15, 2018 22:01:00 GMT
Oh honey, you have no idea what speed I can attain when I get a wiggle on. I can do it in 40 minutes if there's a camp Jonathan Bailey at the end of the rainbow...
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Post by numtuckety on Oct 17, 2018 9:41:08 GMT
Hello, I'm a lurker but saw the first preview of this last night and thought I'd post to say how incredible I thought it was. Definitely worth getting a ticket for if you haven't - it didn't feel like 3 hours at all and I felt so absorbed throughout and would go back and see it again in a heartbeat. The way it's been deconstructed is absolutely fascinating and all the actors were brilliant. Not sure how to do the spoiler thing so won't say anymore on the show. And of course, the use of songs are beautiful.
One thing about the Almeida seating - the first two rows in the stalls have no rake at all and the third/fourth row have such a minimal rake that it makes the stalls seats really hard to see from including if you're of a normal height like I am. Everyone around me was craning to look at the action as the stage wasn't raised and I missed quite a lot of blocking that happened when people sat down onstage. I don't go to every show at the Almeida so I'm not sure how normal this is but I am really surprised how they've managed to get away with having either a) no rake or b) a very minimal rake which could not have been more than about 60mm. A couple of people around me who we were shorter just sort of gave up on trying to see the stage and just listened instead to some scenes.
If I was going back, I definitely sit at the front of the dress circle. If anyone else has had any experience of this at the Almeida I'd love to hear it as I'm intrigued about whether it's just for this show or not.
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