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Post by TallPaul on Feb 6, 2019 10:58:56 GMT
Presumably in the Minerva. 😉
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Post by emsworthian on Feb 6, 2019 11:07:52 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester?
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Feb 6, 2019 11:56:49 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester? I'm sure it will have been done at some point! I think we need a Macbeth AND Hamlet ban as they are done farr too much in place of other lesser Shakespeare plays such as Pericles. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 12:23:19 GMT
Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, As You Like It, and Midsummer Night's Dream. And maybe Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra.
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Post by learfan on Feb 6, 2019 18:27:06 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester? Shakespeare is one writer Chichester dont tend to go for. Productions were very few until recently when there was the Patrick Stewart Macbeth /12th Night. Kim Cattrall in Antony&Cleopatra and the two Minerva Lears. Don't think they have ever done Hamlet. |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 6, 2019 22:38:36 GMT
Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, As You Like It, and Midsummer Night's Dream. And maybe Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra. Yay more Pericleses |
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 14, 2019 0:35:20 GMT
Today’s the day.
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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 14, 2019 4:01:46 GMT
Mmmmm….I have a feeling that there will be nothing to get especially excited about. I hope I am proved wrong.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 14, 2019 5:02:33 GMT
Yes, mixed feelings: if there's little or nothing of appeal, it will save me the cost of renewing my membership, the stress of booking (9 am on a Saturday, when many regular theatregoers would normally be en route to see something) and fraught journeys with GTR. But I do, travel aside, really enjoy my trips to Chichester, as it's so much more pleasant than yet another visit to London; the shops are worth a look provided it's not too often and there are great exhibitions at Pallant House gallery.
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 14, 2019 6:46:15 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester? I'm sure it will have been done at some point! Surprisingly, it never has. One of life's great mysteries. It took them 50 years to do Private Lives. |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 14, 2019 8:07:02 GMT
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Post by Rory on Feb 14, 2019 8:09:23 GMT
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Post by Rory on Feb 14, 2019 8:10:17 GMT
8 Hotels looks good. Otherwise, a disappointing lack of new writing.
Very disappointed no reprisal for The Watsons or news of a transfer.
Plenty of revivals (no pun intended).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 8:10:26 GMT
Well, that's..... something less than overwhelming.
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Feb 14, 2019 8:11:42 GMT
Am I the only one very disappointed by the planned rep? As already mentioned The Deep Blue Sea, Oklahom & Macbeth all done within living memory at CFT! It will be lovely to see Shadowlands though.
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Post by learfan on Feb 14, 2019 8:17:15 GMT
Plenty has been on my list for ages. 8 hotels and the Hedda look interesting. Not overwhelming but not too bad.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 14, 2019 8:21:12 GMT
Probably one of the most boring Theatre seasons in the history of Theatre seasons in the whole wide world ever. And they can quote that on the posters  |
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Feb 14, 2019 8:27:41 GMT
Probably one of the most boring Theatre seasons in the history of Theatre seasons in the whole wide world ever. And they can quote that on the posters I think they should! Others have mentioned this before, but CFT has lost its shine since Jonathan Church left.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 8:35:24 GMT
I mean, none of it sounds like it's going to be bad, if I lived in Chichester I would probably book everything, but I just don't see anything that's worth travelling to Chichester for from the outside. (And I say that as someone who dearly loves Nancy Carroll and still considers her performance in a Rattigan play one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. Did it have to be The Deep Blue Sea? How many more times must we be tormented with this play?) But then, I guess, it's nice for Chichester to be able to lure audience members from all over the place, but the programming really should be (and presumably is) aimed at providing for the people who actually live there.
(Although, speaking of being tormented multiple times with a single play, MACBETH? Yeah, maybe I wouldn't book *everything* if I were a Chichester resident...)
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Feb 14, 2019 8:43:02 GMT
Does someone need to have a word with Daniel Evans and tell him that Shakespeare wrote more than a handful of plays?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 9:06:24 GMT
Peak Chichester and very underwhelming! Deep Blue Sea is a great play but they did it in 2011 - other Rattigan plays are available!
3 out of 12 plays are by women, one of those is Ibsen "in a version by ..", another is an adaptation of a Michael Morpugo book, and the third is the youth theatre production. 78 year old white man Nicholas Wright and 75 year old white man Richard Eyre give us their hot take on Paul Robeson. All the main stage plays are by white men, I think. There's only one play (the Roy Williams in the Spiegeltent) not by a white writer.
Anyway, good news for me as I find Chichester a real pain to get to! Only been there a few times, the first being the previous "Deep Blue Sea".
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Post by Polly1 on Feb 14, 2019 9:59:57 GMT
Hugh Bonneville as C.S.Lewis (Shadowlands) is bizarre casting. There was a very good tour a couple of years ago with Stephen Boxer which I'm pretty sure must have visited Chi so another very recent revival.
Expected more from Evans after his work in Sheffield, he must be under very different pressures here - I wonder how long before he gets itchy feet.
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Post by emsworthian on Feb 14, 2019 10:09:34 GMT
Hugh Bonneville as C.S.Lewis (Shadowlands) is bizarre casting. There was a very good tour a couple of years ago with Stephen Boxer which I'm pretty sure must have visited Chi so another very recent revival. Expected more from Evans after his work in Sheffield, he must be under very different pressures here - I wonder how long before he gets itchy feet. I seem to remember a production of "Shadowlands" at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, a few years ago. That might be the one that you are referring to. I think Tony Slattery had a role in it.
Why blame "the powers that be" for Evans' dud selections? Jonathan Church managed to come up with far more exciting seasons. Sure, Church had a few duds but he seems to have had a far higher hit rate than Evans so far.
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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 14, 2019 10:10:42 GMT
You don't have to be as old as me to have seen all the revivals recently - Oklahoma, Deep Blue Sea, Shadowlands, Plenty, etc. There are OTHER plays and musicals! But on a positive note it will save me a heap of money. As @baemax said if I lived there I would probably go but nothing worth a train trip.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 10:11:42 GMT
I guess things like "The Deep Blue Rinse" will appeal to the core audience there!  Actually not particularly objecting to them putting on this type of thing, but reviving shows they've done themselves so recently seems very odd. |
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