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Post by londonpostie on Oct 2, 2019 12:49:07 GMT
UK Corporation tax is down from 30% to 19% over the most recent 15 years. I would imagine John McDonnell's team are already having a close look at the concept of corporate tax relief on qualifying contributions.
As we can see here, greening a corporate image can put organisations doing good work in an invidious, nee almost impossible, position. Times are changing ..
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Post by lynette on Oct 2, 2019 18:48:06 GMT
Corporate Tax relief on contributions to charities already exists.
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Post by learfan on Oct 3, 2019 19:25:12 GMT
At the very nice and informative Stich in Time event tonight, we were told the new season info would be with us in the next day or so. Lots of Shakespeares, there was mention of a "big period piece" that was going to involve a lot of the costume dept!
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Post by theatremad on Oct 3, 2019 21:27:44 GMT
At the very nice and informative Stich in Time event tonight, we were told the new season info would be with us in the next day or so. Lots of Shakespeares, there was mention of a "big period piece" that was going to involve a lot of the costume dept! Thank you Learfan. Henry VIII could be the period piece |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 3, 2019 21:36:19 GMT
Given that Hilary Mantel has completed the final novel in the trilogy, it could well be the third play in the Wolf Hall cycle - and probably a run of all three
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 3, 2019 22:05:56 GMT
Corporate Tax relief on contributions to charities already exists. I thought that was evident i.e. Labour is looking into how this is working in practice. |
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Post by learfan on Oct 3, 2019 22:41:31 GMT
Given that Hilary Mantel has completed the final novel in the trilogy, it could well be the third play in the Wolf Hall cycle - and probably a run of all three God, i hope not! |
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Post by rosmersholm on Oct 3, 2019 23:33:11 GMT
I’m fine with this as long as 16-25 year olds now pay for full price tickets without complaint. Decisions have consequences. Yes, punish the young people for trying to encourage institutions to take some moral responsibility. Really classy. 2020 inc. Richard III dir. Doran, Winter’s Tale dir. Wyman, and the Henry VIs. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 3, 2019 23:38:18 GMT
Given that Hilary Mantel has completed the final novel in the trilogy, it could well be the third play in the Wolf Hall cycle - and probably a run of all three I can’t imagine they’ll have the play adaptation done so soon given the Mirror and the Light isn’t being released until March. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 3, 2019 23:43:18 GMT
Given that Hilary Mantel has completed the final novel in the trilogy, it could well be the third play in the Wolf Hall cycle - and probably a run of all three I can’t imagine they’ll have the play adaptation done so soon given the Mirror and the Light isn’t being released until March. The manuscript will be ready by now. Audiobook version will be in production and so forth. Plus Mantel gets on well with Poulton |
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Post by Jon on Oct 4, 2019 0:01:25 GMT
I can’t imagine they’ll have the play adaptation done so soon given the Mirror and the Light isn’t being released until March. The manuscript will be ready by now. Audiobook version will be in production and so forth. Plus Mantel gets on well with Poulton November or December 2020 at the earliest is more likely than summer 2020 as I imagine the publishers of the book don’t want the play adaptation to hit the sales of the book in its first few months. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 5:42:40 GMT
. 2020 inc. Richard III dir. Doran, Winter’s Tale dir. Wyman, and the Henry VIs. Good news if true. Hopefully we get the three Henry VI plays rather than a cut-down two part version. Regarding "The Mirror and the Light" - "Bring Up the Bodies" was published May 2012, the RSC adaptation of the two books was announced in January 2013 and the plays premiered in December 2013. Appreciate Poulton would only have half the work to do this time, but I think a similar timeline is more realistic this time, so the book can stand on its own for a while. Also presumably the timing of a TV adaptation might affect this too. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 4, 2019 5:47:36 GMT
I’m fine with this as long as 16-25 year olds now pay for full price tickets without complaint. Decisions have consequences. Yes, punish the young people for trying to encourage institutions to take some moral responsibility. Really classy. So you want old people to be punished instead ? It's easy to take the moral high ground when the impact on you personally is zero - all I'm asking is that they take some financial responsibility too. |
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 6:11:34 GMT
Fab news if Henry VI does work out. Even worse please not a one part one like the Globe. Winters Tale by Whyman sounds promising.
However much Mantel be fab, I think will be winter 2020 as all the big boom adaptations have been that time of year pretty much.
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Post by zahidf on Oct 4, 2019 6:19:54 GMT
Yes, punish the young people for trying to encourage institutions to take some moral responsibility. Really classy. So you want old people to be punished instead ? It's easy to take the moral high ground when the impact on you personally is zero - all I'm asking is that they take some financial responsibility too. That's probably not the attitude the theatre will want to put across Anyway, it's a way to bring young people into the RSC, so cheaper tickets for them will probably stay for that reason. I'm sure young people just don't bother going if it's too expensive for them. |
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 10:07:04 GMT
RST:
The Winter's Tale: Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, Director Erica Whyman imagines a world where the ghosts of fascist Europe collide with horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale, before washing up on a joyful seashore.
The Comedy of Errors: A fairytale farce of everyday miracles, mistaken identity and double vision, directed by comedy master Phillip Breen
Pericles: Blanche McIntyre returns to direct Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation, located in a familiar world of precarious journeys and treacherous alliances
SWAN
Europeana - a breathless race through the chaotic kaleidoscope of 20th century history, from the book by Patrik Ouředník. Adapted by Maria Åberg and Judith Gerstenberg. Directed by Maria Åberg
Peer Gynt - Acclaimed Swiss director Barbara Frey reimagines Ibsen’s epic European myth for the 21st century
Blindness and Seeing - One afternoon, a city’s inhabitants are suddenly overcome by an epidemic of blindness in this poetic and evocative vision for the future by Nobel Prize winning Portuguese novelist José Saramago, directed by Tiago Rodrigues
Not sure about Comedy after Provoked but Pericles and Winter's sound interesting.
I love Peer Gynt so that's a must and the rest sound fab
Sounds like the Swan finishes July which may suggest Henry VI etc goes in there
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 4, 2019 10:22:32 GMT
Looks a strong season, always loved The Comedy of Errors for its pure silliness and have found Pericles to be continually under appreciated.
Now need to see the schedule to see if I can see all the plays over 2 three play weekends my preference or whether will have to make 3 visits.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 4, 2019 10:29:55 GMT
I can't say that the descriptions of WT or CE sound anything like the plays I know and have seen many times. Particularly WT which sounds like a very heavy-handed concept being imposed on quite a delicate play.
Europeana sounds the most interesting thing in the Swan.
At least there is Shakespeare in the season. But we shouldn't have to be grateful for that
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Post by David J on Oct 4, 2019 11:01:04 GMT
I called it on this ‘lost families in far away lands’ season with Errors, Winters Tale and Pericles
Looking at the description of Winters Tale..........No, just No. This looks too obvious and heavy handed
I’ll watch Errors and pericles in the cinema
Peer Gynt I’d love to see. Blindness and Seeing looks interesting. I’d make a trip for the weekend for those two
Fingers crossed HVI is in the swan. A hopeful sign that Doran will leave it to someone with more vision
Heck can we just have another revival of Michael Boyds version pretty please! It did start off in the swan after all
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 4, 2019 11:06:41 GMT
No real juicy Shakespeare’s plays here, just 3 obscure ones.
Was hoping for one of his more popular plays.
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 11:13:14 GMT
Got it wrong, Swan ends september
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Post by lynette on Oct 4, 2019 11:30:50 GMT
Why does Peer Gynt get so much attention? Another reimagining! Get over yourself. So many other good plays out there. Happy about Pericles, agreed, Neil, underrated and such a good study for students looking at other plays cos it is not usually a main syllabus play. The Winter’s Tale idea does sound a bit forced. Given that Hermione is the most vociferous woman, ok maybe one of them, in the whole canon, I’ll be intrigued to see how they work the Handmaid’s Tale into it, not to mention Paulina, every man’s nightmare of a middle aged ‘friend’. But they do go for trendy don’t they, these directors?
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Post by theatremad on Oct 4, 2019 11:35:26 GMT
Miles Jupp to play one of the Antipholuses
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Post by David J on Oct 4, 2019 12:00:19 GMT
But they do go for trendy don’t they, these directors? It’s like what I said with the ‘issue plays’. Where the director cant just make a straight up good show that leaves the audience to make up their minds about what it’s about. Instead they want to make a statement about patriarchy, me too, racism, trump, far right, immigration, brexit or whatever is being screamed about on the streets these days. Stuff that the playwright may or may not have have talked about back in his time, but stuff like the description of WT sounds very forced Now I may be overreacting. I’ll wait till reviews to see whether I want to see in the cinemas. Maybe it will be more subtle than the blurb suggests. Maybe it will be an ok production that is less than it aimed to be (which I think will be the case with Erica Whyman directing) But just look at how the blurb compares to Errors and Pericles. The other two remains vague without aggrandising any statements they are aiming to make. And they don’t make uninspired references to tv shows |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 12:12:27 GMT
Miles Jupp to play one of the Antipholuses I will definately be booking as he was brilliant in The Life I Lead! |
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