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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2019 17:30:15 GMT
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Mar 25, 2019 20:35:13 GMT
Wonder how they'll do all the animals. Puppets? Maybe play with the angle that they all represented people that escaped on the ship?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 25, 2019 23:24:06 GMT
It will involve a lot of puppetry
So I suspect the success of the show will very much depend on how well that works
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Post by avenueqresident on Mar 26, 2019 13:15:56 GMT
Paws for thought on who they’ll get to play Richard Parker.
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 26, 2019 13:34:40 GMT
I must thank my very good friend BurlyBeaR for repeatedly doing my job for me! Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti. Movement and puppetry direction by Finn Caldwell, who has previously worked on The Elephantom, The Lorax, and The Grinning Man. (Along with some shows without the in the title, like Angels in America, War Horse and Groundhog Day.) Cast of 13. From tomorrow, Sheffield Theatres is launching a season ticket when three or more shows are booked at the same time, so, for example, Life of Pi, Guys and Dolls and Everybody's Talking About Jamie. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 26, 2019 13:54:59 GMT
I must thank my very good friend BurlyBeaR for repeatedly doing my job for me! No, it’s fine really. You sit with your feet up and I’ll cover Manchester AND Sheffield. Would you like me to bring you a newspaper and a cup of Camp coffee maybe? 😐 |
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 26, 2019 14:08:09 GMT
Classic! It's alright for you. I've still got all these hills to walk up. No (extra) sugar please, I'm sweet enough already.  And a biscuit, or two, would be nice, or perhaps something home-made. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 26, 2019 17:49:16 GMT
I must thank my very good friend BurlyBeaR for repeatedly doing my job for me! No, it’s fine really. You sit with your feet up and I’ll cover Manchester AND Sheffield. Would you like me to bring you a newspaper and a cup of Camp coffee maybe? 😐 Paws up surely? |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 27, 2019 16:17:59 GMT
Anyone seeing this? Public dress this week. Is it for kids do you think?
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 6, 2019 16:47:12 GMT
The reviews for this are some some of the best I've read since the world-famous Crucible Theatre's last smash hit...about two months ago! Even Carl Woodward has tweeted that it has made him "fall in love with theatre all over again". There is, it seems, a genuine, sincere, heartfelt standing ovation after every performance, not like those phooney air-kiss ones they have in London. You'd hate it, BurlyBeaR. 🙂 |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 6, 2019 17:05:56 GMT
I suspected that this was going to be a stunner. Sometimes you just get that feeling. I might put my aversion to puppetry aside and pop over. Slightly miffed because I’ve just got home from sheff after visiting my mum, so I could have hung about and seen the evening performance. Sadly TallPaul was characteristically late in posting about it so....... 🙂 |
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Post by robertb213 on Jul 6, 2019 17:06:54 GMT
This looks incredible from the photos released so far, I really hope they bring it to London
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 6, 2019 17:21:14 GMT
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Post by robertb213 on Jul 6, 2019 18:06:40 GMT
Thanks, I hadn't seen some of those! It looks fantastic 😀 |
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 7, 2019 13:06:48 GMT
At least I'm consistent, BurlyBeaR, just like a pint of Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter in the Brown Bear. 🍺 Consistency is often an underrated quality in a chap these days. Had you hung about, you could have had a go on the zipwire in Barker's Pool. Then you could have hung about some more! (And should we ask what else has given you 'that feeling' recently?) |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 7, 2019 13:26:22 GMT
A zipwire? On the doorstep of Sheffield’s iconic City Hall? Right under the noses of the customers of Sheffield’s premier department store Cole Brothers? What an absolute disgrace 😑
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 7, 2019 14:27:34 GMT
Yes, literally on the doorstep. You start in Barker's Pool, and end hopefully not in the Northern General, but outside that new Caribbean restaurant on Holly Street.
Directly outside Coles is one of the longest slides I've ever seen. You start on the same level as habidashery, and end down in perfumes. £2.50 for two slides, or £3 for three.
Our mutual friend, @theatremonkey, could have made a killing on 'Beat The Bar'. You pay £2, and if you can manage to hang from the bar for two minutes, you win £20.
Its 2019, you know. City centres aren't just for shopping anymore!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 7, 2019 18:59:42 GMT
You’d have to catch him on a day that he hasn’t chomped his way through a crate of Fyffes bananas 🍌
(Which is never!)
He calls it his Fyffes A Day 🙊
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Post by david on Jul 8, 2019 19:43:59 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 8, 2019 20:26:07 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 9, 2019 13:55:35 GMT
I've had a brilliant idea for next year's Cliffhanger festival. Forget paying £2 to Beat The Bar, I reckon there's even more money to be made charging punters to Beat The Bear. No prize...you literally just beat the bear! If anyone knows where I can find one burly enough, please let me know. 🙂
Anyway, back to the play...
The Yorkshire Post- 5🌟
What's On Stage - 5🌟
The Stage - 5🌟
The Guardian- 5🌟
North West End- 5🌟
And Adrian Lester liked it too, but he was always going to, if he knows what's good for him. 😉
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Post by Jon on Jul 10, 2019 17:52:47 GMT
I imagine this will have a future life somewhere. Maybe a limited run in London at somewhere like the Gillian Lynne or The Bridge?
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Post by david on Jul 11, 2019 22:39:40 GMT
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Post by Jon on Jul 12, 2019 0:23:48 GMT
The earliest it could be get a suitable theatre is January or February when the Piccadilly, Harold Pinter and Gielgud are available and the Gillian Lynne can't be ruled out either.
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Post by Rory on Jul 12, 2019 5:04:58 GMT
The earliest it could be get a suitable theatre is January or February when the Piccadilly, Harold Pinter and Gielgud are available and the Gillian Lynne can't be ruled out either. Uncle Vanya is going into the Pinter in January and To Kill a Mockingbird is strongly tipped for the Gielgud. Piccadilly possible but isn't Moulin Rouge tipped for there? Maybe the Duke of York's or Playhouse? |
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And a biscuit, or two, would be nice, or perhaps something home-made.
