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Post by lynette on Oct 11, 2019 11:43:51 GMT
There is something on twitter about a sequel for a David Hare play. He seems to be asking if a play could generate a sequel. I don't know if it is really him asking- I’m not expert on the twittersphere- but it is an interesting question. To be honest I can’t think of any of his actual plays he could follow up on but he has all those ‘voice’ efforts, one of which is on now at the Vaults, the Permanent Way, about the scandal of the poorly maintained railway system. So he could update one of those. A bit boring though. So what about updating anyone else’s work with a sequel?
My nasty cynical self is thinking he has already written it. And the revival of the railways one has encouraged this bold move.
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2019 15:04:25 GMT
Oh I imagine whatever he comes up with the NT will put it on immediately so he has no real need to prepare the ground first.
What was he asking anyway ? Lots of plays have generated sequels, particularly in Shakespeare’s day, The Taming of the Shrew, Westward Ho ! (Two sequels), there are loads. Modern writers have written sequels to classic plays too, there was one fairly recently continuing A Doll’s House just as an example.
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Post by lynette on Oct 11, 2019 15:51:36 GMT
It was asking if you can have a sequel to a play years after the original.
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 11, 2019 18:04:25 GMT
Well famously Phantom had Love Never Dies what was it, thirty years later? I can't think which Hare play needs a sequel. Pravda perhaps given the prescience of politics and the press?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Oct 11, 2019 20:49:02 GMT
Lol, it’s not David Hare. I don’t think he’s on Twitter. It was the (excellent) playwright Isley Lynn who tweeted about sequels. She changed her display name to David Hare recently as a joke but if you look at the username it’s @isleylynn.
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Post by pledge on Oct 13, 2019 8:11:08 GMT
There was a "sequel" to The Browning Version at the Pentameters about ten years ago - can't recall the title, but it was actually not bad; an older Taplow goes to visit the now retired Crocker-Harris.
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Post by lynette on Oct 13, 2019 8:33:15 GMT
Lol, it’s not David Hare. I don’t think he’s on Twitter. It was the (excellent) playwright Isley Lynn who tweeted about sequels. She changed her display name to David Hare recently as a joke but if you look at the username it’s @isleylynn. Right I thought it was weird. So what is her shtick? With the David Hare thing? Anyway does she have a sequel plan in her desk drawer I wonder. |
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Post by learfan on Oct 13, 2019 15:21:45 GMT
Lol, it’s not David Hare. I don’t think he’s on Twitter. It was the (excellent) playwright Isley Lynn who tweeted about sequels. She changed her display name to David Hare recently as a joke but if you look at the username it’s @isleylynn. Who? |
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Post by Jan on Oct 14, 2019 8:19:41 GMT
Now that I check I think the 2017 play A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath is worth a production here. It’s had a few USA productions including on Broadway and by Steppenwolf. Somewhere like Jermyn Street should do it. It is set 15 years after the end of A Doll’s House and starts with Nora walking back in through the door she slammed.
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Post by learfan on Oct 14, 2019 8:25:28 GMT
Now that I check I think the 2017 play A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath is worth a production here. It’s had a few USA productions including on Broadway and by Steppenwolf. Somewhere like Jermyn Street should do it. It is set 15 years after the end of A Doll’s House and starts with Nora walking back in through the door she slammed. Agreed, it sounded interesting when on Broadway. Hampstead might be another option or straight to the WE if they could get a name. |
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