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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 14:33:50 GMT
I'd love to see the recent Broadway production transfer with Idris Eldba, Sophie Okonedo and Mica Paris!
There could be a great cast for this and it would be a good play to see in the west end
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 15:01:34 GMT
There was a touring production very recently with Ashley Zhangazha. It was absolutely stunning, I'd be very up for an opportunity to see it again.
Of course, now I finally have seen it, I have to wonder what on earth is wrong with Bruce Norris that he could look at such a beautiful play with such excellent characters, and respond with "yes, but I want to know more about that white man!".
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Post by peelee on Apr 19, 2016 19:17:33 GMT
That'll be because Bruce Norris is one of those playwrights who thinks a bit and lets his imagination run. Rather like Lorraine Hansberry all those years ago learned that Jean Genet had written a play called 'The Blacks' and that set her thinking about, researching and writing 'Les Blancs'. All have some worth to them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 19:37:50 GMT
There was a touring production very recently with Ashley Zhangazha. It was absolutely stunning, I'd be very up for an opportunity to see it again. Of course, now I finally have seen it, I have to wonder what on earth is wrong with Bruce Norris that he could look at such a beautiful play with such excellent characters, and respond with "yes, but I want to know more about that white man!". Id love to see a London show with a stellar uk cast! I haven't seen the show yet |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 19, 2016 20:02:56 GMT
I would love to see a West End revival.
Sure it will happen one day and probably soon, you have Les Blancs at the National, by the same author, it isn't lost on me that you have les Blanc and Ma Rainey's Black Bottoms on at the same time, both playwrights used that rich tapestry of African - American Language, which is/was a master stroke by Rufus Norris and something he hasn't been praised for.
I would also love to see Of Mice and Men come to London.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 20, 2016 11:42:54 GMT
Don't please, I wasn't seeing plays then. Now I would kill to see it, on my bucket list.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 12:16:35 GMT
Don't please, I wasn't seeing plays then. Now I would kill to see it, on my bucket list. , directed by Roxana Silbert at Birmingham Rep, is now halfway through its tour - in Brighton this week, then playing in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford and Leicester. touringconsortium.co.uk/show/of-mice-and-men/ |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 20, 2016 12:30:17 GMT
Thanks.
Which is even more gaoling as none of these are near me and I cannot get up to any of the venues. Hoping it might come inside the M25.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 21:26:37 GMT
Really hoped that this would transfer from Broadway with Sophie Okonedo! She's amazing in Undercover at the moment!!
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