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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 10:01:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 10:05:47 GMT
Oh look, Robert Icke is adapting a play for the Almeida and Juliet Stevenson is in it, that's unus...
... no, I can't keep a straight face, soz!
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Post by lynette on May 13, 2019 10:16:13 GMT
Imagine you are a renowned writer now dead, looking down at us from a cloudy throne and then think what it must be like to have your work ‘adapted’. Nay, ‘freely adapted’
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Post by londonpostie on May 13, 2019 10:19:26 GMT
'freely doctored'?
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 10:22:36 GMT
No, Lynette: VERY freely adapted.
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Post by zahidf on May 13, 2019 10:28:12 GMT
Oh look, Robert Icke is adapting a play for the Almeida and Juliet Stevenson is in it, that's unus... ... no, I can't keep a straight face, soz! Billed as ickes last one as associate director. |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 10:37:17 GMT
Stepping down because "it's become impossible to give the building the attention it deserves alongside my other work for theatre and the screen" - so sounds like he's aiming to focus on his freelance directing work rather than having another venue-based role in mind
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Post by bordeaux on May 13, 2019 11:28:58 GMT
Very exciting news. I have loved much of Icke's work. I love the little Schnitzler I've seen; Professor Bernhardi is near the top of my list of plays I'd love to see. I must admit I don't really like the 'very freely adapted' thing, but I'm sure it'll be interesting. And Vassa to follow - two rarely performed European classics: good to see in my view.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 11:35:16 GMT
Also, Ria Zmitrowicz who seems to have made the Almeida her home recently (Dance Nation and Three Sisters before this).
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Post by jek on Jun 2, 2019 12:39:57 GMT
For anyone interested Robert Icke was Michael Berkley's guest on Private Passions on Radio 3 this morning. Clearly a man from whom ideas pour out - found it quite difficult to keep up with what he was saying at some points. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005pkxSome nice choices of music from someone to whom music is clearly important. |
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Post by learfan on Jun 2, 2019 12:56:21 GMT
Also, Ria Zmitrowicz who seems to have made the Almeida her home recently (Dance Nation and Three Sisters before this). She was so awful in the Chekhov, its put me off this. I had to look up the play anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2019 13:35:11 GMT
Also, Ria Zmitrowicz who seems to have made the Almeida her home recently (Dance Nation and Three Sisters before this). She was so awful in the Chekhov, its put me off this. I had to look up the play anyway. I disagree completely, I thought she, and Pearl Chanda, stood out. She played the posh home counties teen perfectly (and I taught enough of them to know!) This is my revival of the year so far. |
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Post by learfan on Jun 2, 2019 14:14:33 GMT
She was so awful in the Chekhov, its put me off this. I had to look up the play anyway. I disagree completely, I thought she, and Pearl Chanda, stood out. She played the posh home counties teen perfectly (and I taught enough of them to know!) This is my revival of the year so far. Chanda was quite good but agree to disagree on Irina. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2019 14:19:40 GMT
I've loved Zmitrowicz in several productions before now, but I don't know what she was doing with Irina. I'm working on the assumption that was a one-off rather than her new way forward though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2019 16:18:32 GMT
Are people just not liking the role as adapted by Cordelia Lynn? As far as I can see she captures exactly how it has been rewritten (and a quick check or reviews show a number also highlighting her).
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Post by crowblack on Jun 2, 2019 21:50:27 GMT
I've loved Zmitrowicz in several productions before now Btw, she's also in 'Three Girls' which is back on iplayer at the moment. |
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Post by Fleance on Jun 2, 2019 22:28:50 GMT
I enjoyed a Schnitzler adaptation at the NT many years ago (Summer 1979): Undiscovered Country (Das Weite Land), by Arthur Schnitzler "in a version by Tom Stoppard." Cast included Dorothy Tutin, Greg Hicks, John Wood, Joyce Redman, Dermot Crowley, Marjorie Yates, Michael Bryant, and Sara Kestelman (who was indisposed). Directed by Peter Wood.
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Post by bordeaux on Jun 3, 2019 7:09:07 GMT
I enjoyed a Schnitzler adaptation at the NT many years ago (Summer 1979): Undiscovered Country (Das Weite Land), by Arthur Schnitzler "in a version by Tom Stoppard." Cast included Dorothy Tutin, Greg Hicks, John Wood, Joyce Redman, Dermot Crowley, Marjorie Yates, Michael Bryant, and Sara Kestelman (who was indisposed). Directed by Peter Wood. Would love to see a revival of that. I get the impression that he stuck much more closely to Schnitzler than he did to a couple of other adaptations he did at about the same time (Nestroy, Molnar). By the way, am I the only person bugged by the 'ph rather than the 'v' in the title of this thread?! Couldn't it be changed? |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Jun 3, 2019 17:17:43 GMT
Yes. That annoyed me but not as much as the title itself which should ideally read 'The Doctor - Almeida Theatre'  |
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Post by nash16 on Jun 4, 2019 0:05:15 GMT
Oh look, Robert Icke is adapting a play for the Almeida and Juliet Stevenson is in it, that's unus... ... no, I can't keep a straight face, soz! Billed as ickes last one as associate director. Thank goodness for that. |
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Post by zahidf on Jun 26, 2019 13:40:21 GMT
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Post by thyme2019 on Aug 13, 2019 20:22:11 GMT
Has anyone seen this/is going?
Heard it's 3 hours long and only review on the twits suggests its pretty dire, so keen to know!
Seeing tomorrow so can report back...
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Post by wannabedirector on Aug 13, 2019 21:33:49 GMT
Just out of this, will write something more substantial when I get home but for now all I’ll say is that I think this will definitely split opinion.
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Post by wannabedirector on Aug 13, 2019 22:09:09 GMT
On the whole I enjoyed this, although I must admit I think very highly of Rob Icke as a director. It’s at times a difficult watch, and like with all his productions I left feeling empty, in a cathartic sense.
It’s a play with a lot to say, although some might say it’s trying to squeeze too much into the about 3 hours (it runs at about 2:50 I’d say). The points of the play are not made solely through the script itself, there’s some interesting directorial choices in there as well, especially in terms of casting.
Juliet Stevenson gives a great performance, and there's some good lighting choices and sound design (the drummer was very good I must say), and it’s nice to see that the Almeida have got more use out of the tables and the benches from Icke’s Oresteia.
I’ve got no knowledge of the original play that this is based on, so I can’t say how faithful this is to the play. Going in blind however, it does seems a story for our times and I left with a lot to think about. This probably isn’t my best formulation of my thoughts from tonight in the slightest, I’ll probably need a while to think about it in more detail before I can fully understand it, and my opinions of it. Nonetheless, and despite my enjoyment of it, I feel people will come down on different sides of the fence on this one, I don’t expect the rave reviews of his Oresteia or his Hamlet (although I wouldn’t be surprised or disappointed if there was widespread praise of it). Some of the choices made will divide opinion, although I feel that is what makes it so thought provoking, and I think why I on the whole thought it was a good piece of theatre. It’s a shame to see it’s Icke’s last one of Artisitc Associate at the Almeida, I hope we don’t lose him to the continent entirely.
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Post by lynette on Aug 13, 2019 22:49:25 GMT
I think we have a thread on this so I’ll close yours if you don't mind and you can check out the one that is here and people have seen it. Welcome to board thyme2019.
there you go 😁
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