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Post by Rory on Sept 13, 2018 12:54:58 GMT
We've got a predictions thread for musicals but which plays do we think might arrive in 2019?
We're expecting All About Eve at the Noel Coward and hints on here suggest The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time will be returning, this time to the Piccadilly.
I would take a punt on Sonia Friedman transferring Othello with Mark Rylance from the Globe.
Can't see much coming in from Chichester or Bath, although many of their plays this season certainly deserve to.
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 13, 2018 13:02:44 GMT
I'm hoping Home, I'm Darling transfers.
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Post by Jan on Sept 13, 2018 13:06:25 GMT
I imagine the Robert Icke “Oedipus” from Amsterdam will make it to the Barbican at some point.
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Post by jadnoop on Sept 13, 2018 13:48:43 GMT
Ninagawa' s Kafka on the beach is playing in France in February so presumably that means a return to the Barbican.
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Post by jadnoop on Sept 13, 2018 14:11:38 GMT
Curious Incident is 29th November - 27th April at picadilly theatre.
It went onto the NT website along some Hadestown talks and a Michael Billington lecture.
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Post by Jon on Sept 13, 2018 14:22:40 GMT
Curious Incident is 29th November - 27th April at picadilly theatre. It went onto the NT website along some Hadestown talks and a Michael Billington lecture. It's interesting that Curious Incident is coming back so soon considering it only closed last year at the Gielgud. I do wonder how it'll fare in a venue which has a bigger capacity than both its previous homes. MrB mentioned in another thread it's two NT plays going to the Piccadilly so if Curious Incident is one of them, what's the other? I have a feeling Home, I'm Darling will transfer but probably not until February or March at the earliest. I wonder what happened to the play that was meant to star Emilia Clarke and directed by Thea Sharrock? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2018 14:22:59 GMT
Ninagawa' s Kafka on the beach is playing in France in February so presumably that means a return to the Barbican. Can't find it now but I'm sure I read around the time "Macbeth" was on at the Barbican last year that the plan was for his last Shakespeare production, Measure for Measure, to come to the UK along with (I think) Kafka. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2018 22:06:12 GMT
Wasn't A Dolls House part two rumliref for 2019?
Also on the theme of Laurie Metcalf unwound love three tall women to come over and as Glenda is busy on Broadway could I sugest Helen Mirren
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 14, 2018 5:04:22 GMT
Well, I'd like to see someone do Tracy Letts' The Minutes, according to Variety 'what is nearly certain to be the single work of art that best represents, but will also survive, the Trump era'. Originally a Steppenwolf production, apparently it's about a small-town council meeting that gets dark.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 7:13:09 GMT
I've severely gone off Tracy Letts recently.
I am hopeful that Kwame Kwei-Armah's Young Vic tenure will at some point include a production of his own Beneatha's Place. It would be nice to see it on this side of the Atlantic but not in Dutch.
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Post by theatreliker on Sept 14, 2018 8:27:38 GMT
The Minutes was meant to transfer to NY this February but it didn't go ahead. I think they perhaps want to work further on the text and so it's possibly not ready yet.
The Emilia Clarke one was rumoured ages ago - and I seem to remember the title being something like Sex with Strangers which was done at the Hampstead last year. Or maybe I'm confusing the two.
I'd like to see The Price from Bath come in. Sweat is doing such a short run at the Donmar that I'd be surprised if it doesn't transfer. Anyone know what else the Elliot Harper company are doing and if it will be straight after Company? I thought Yael Farber's Antigone was mentioned.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 8:38:35 GMT
I imagine the Robert Icke “Oedipus” from Amsterdam will make it to the Barbican at some point. The Toneelgroep Medea directed by Simon Stone is at the Barbican in March, so possible for later next year maybe?
The production of theirs that I really hope come over here is Ibsen House (again directed by Stone).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 9:03:46 GMT
How about In Praise of Love with Robert Lindsay & Tara Fitzgerald transferring from Bath?
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Post by rosmersholm on Sept 14, 2018 15:10:00 GMT
Richard II dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins, Macbeth dir. Robert Icke, both Almeida.
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Post by zahidf on Sept 14, 2018 15:53:16 GMT
barbican is VERY quiet at the moment...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 22:11:57 GMT
I'd love to see 'What's in a Name?' transfer in following its run in Birmingham last year, however I suppose it depends on the availability of Nigel Harman (who's now doing the Glengarry Glenn Ross tour in spring) and Sarah Hadland unless they get re-cast.
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 15, 2018 10:39:28 GMT
Richard II dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins, Macbeth dir. Robert Icke, both Almeida. Are these fantasies, or have they been rumoured? |
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Post by bordeaux on Sept 15, 2018 10:42:08 GMT
There's a Yasmina Reza play, Bella Figura, which hasn't been done in the UK. It premiered at the Schaubuhne, Berlin, directed by Thomas Ostermeier intriguingly enough (I would have thought she was too middle-brow for him). I'd love to see that.
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Post by learfan on Sept 15, 2018 12:54:03 GMT
There's a Yasmina Reza play, Bella Figura, which hasn't been done in the UK. It premiered at the Schaubuhne, Berlin, directed by Thomas Ostermeier intriguingly enough (I would have thought she was too middle-brow for him). I'd love to see that. Funny you mention Reza. There are two other plays of hers that havent been seen here, Winter Crossing is an early one and then there is a Spanish Play which premiered in NY more recently but got panned and so far as i am aware has disappeared. Bella Figura has been done elsewhere in Europe and it would seem ideal for the Donmar or Almeida. |
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Post by lynette on Sept 16, 2018 11:54:46 GMT
She had a play about a family coming together for a funeral. Almeida, was it? It was an early one. Anyone remember the title? I would like to see more of her work.
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Post by theatremad on Sept 16, 2018 11:56:44 GMT
She had a play about a family coming together for a funeral. Almeida, was it? It was an early one. Anyone remember the title? I would like to see more of her work. Conversations after a Burial? |
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Post by lynette on Sept 16, 2018 12:00:08 GMT
Yep, that's it. Thanks.
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Post by learfan on Sept 16, 2018 15:22:17 GMT
Yep, saw that, recall it being pretty good. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 8:18:42 GMT
Richard II dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins, Macbeth dir. Robert Icke, both Almeida. Are these fantasies, or have they been rumoured? Well the first has now been announced so, presumably, the second is in the pipeline. Better to wait a bit, though, given the number of productions it's having at the moment.
rosmersholm - thanks for the advance information, please contribute more if, and when, you can!
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Post by Jan on Sept 20, 2018 8:30:01 GMT
Are these fantasies, or have they been rumoured? Well the first has now been announced so, presumably, the second is in the pipeline. Better to wait a bit, though, given the number of productions it's having at the moment.
rosmersholm - thanks for the advance information, please contribute more if, and when, you can!
Macbeth remains a GCSE set text for many London schools at least up to 2020 so there is still a ready market for it. I would have thought that more of a risk this far out would be cancellation due to the director or preferred actors being offered something better in the interim. |
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