NT 2022

[TallPaul]

Richard Bean is currently busy working on 71 Coltman Street, a new play to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hull Truck. He can't be in two places at once!

[samuelwhiskers]

Nov 11, 2021 20:17:53 GMT meister said:

And again no sign of ‘Jack Absolute Flies Again’!!!!

That’s a shame, it’s the one I was most looking forward to.

[Jan]

Nov 12, 2021 8:33:49 GMT TallPaul said:

Richard Bean is currently busy working on 71 Coltman Street, a new play to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hull Truck. He can't be in two places at once!

Why would he have to be there ? - this is 2022 programming anyway. He’s not directing it and they’d already started rehearsals so the play exits. The problem is more likely to be availability of the TV-friendly cast they’d assembled, Caroline Quentin, James Fleet etc.

[TallPaul]

Shouldn't a playwright always be in the rehearsal room of a new piece, for last minute finessing?

71 Coltman Street opens on 17 February, so the National can have him back on the 18th...unless Caroline Quentin is in the middle of another house renovation! 🙂

[Jan]

Nov 12, 2021 15:35:51 GMT TallPaul said:

Shouldn't a playwright always be in the rehearsal room of a new piece, for last minute finessing?

That is a fairly recent innovation. In the past some of them turned up occasionally or not at all. John Osborne actively disliked the first director of one of his plays so didn’t show at all. However, Rufus Norris is a big fan of having the writer in there semi-permanently.

[Jon]

Jack Absolute I imagine is being saved for later in 2022, as Jan suggested, it's probably due to cast availability.

[Dave B]

Five and half minutes in the queue for public sale today. My better half quite keen on seeing Nicola Walker in The Corn Is Green so two front row £20 seats for later in the run.

Will see what the next few weeks bring and then see what reviews are like for the rest of the season.

[zahidf]

Dec 2, 2021 12:15:57 GMT Dave B said:

Five and half minutes in the queue for public sale today. My better half quite keen on seeing Nicola Walker in The Corn Is Green so two front row £20 seats for later in the run.

Will see what the next few weeks bring and then see what reviews are like for the rest of the season.

Same here, i got the Corn is green tickets. Ill Friday rush the rest    

[couldileaveyou]

[Someone in a tree]

Feb 22, 2022 9:22:41 GMT couldileaveyou said:

It's a bums on seats season

[mrbarnaby]

Kelvin Fletcher has joined the cast of Jack Absolute. Opens late summer.

Books front row immediately.

[juicy_but_terribly_drab]

Is this the last of the shows cancelled due to covid being done now, or is there something else they've yet to do still?

[jgblunners]

Official announcement:

[Mark]

Giles Terera will be in Blues for an Alabama Sky, definitely count me in for that!

[oxfordsimon]

Kelvin Fletcher??? He must have been taking a lot of acting lessons as he has never demonstrated any acting ability in any of his screen appearances.

[youngoffender]

In his Times interview, Norris acknowledges the challenge posed by the streamers in attracting writing talent and star names:

"There has been such an upsurge in television and film work in Britain, he explains, that it’s harder than ever to attract writers and directors. 'Most actors who would sell a theatre are now attached to some kind of contract with Netflix or Amazon. I’m very happy for them but it’s very real.'"

[drmaplewood]

Feb 22, 2022 9:34:05 GMT juicy_but_terribly_drab said:

Is this the last of the shows cancelled due to covid being done now, or is there something else they've yet to do still?

Callum Scott Howells was meant to be in Romeo and Julie, wasn't he? Though maybe that got canned after he became a household name from It's A Sin.

[Jan]

Simon Godwin (rightly) continuing as the NT’s go-to director for Shakespeare I see. RSC in the mud.

[TallPaul]

Who's going to look after the sheep when Kelvin is in that London? 🐑

[mrbarnaby]

Feb 22, 2022 15:07:56 GMT TallPaul said:

Who's going to look after the sheep when Kelvin is in that London? 🐑

That was my first thought when I found out.

[mrbarnaby]

Feb 22, 2022 15:07:56 GMT TallPaul said:

Who's going to look after the sheep when Kelvin is in that London? 🐑

That was my first thought when I found out.

[theoracle]

I like this programme. I’ll watch anything directed by Ian Rickson and just missed out on the show in 2020. John Heffernan and Katharine Parkinson will be divine together under the helm of Simon Godwin. And of course Giles Terera will be a great draw to the Hamilton fans - good to see him back treading the boards of NT!

[Phantom of London]

No Hex please, we’re British.

The Neptunium Farce.

[oxfordsimon]

I just watched the Facebook video launching Jack Absolute Flies Again.

The director informed us that the action has been updated to middle of the Battle of Britain. In 1941.

Which all sounds great unless you know that the Battle of Britain took place between July and October 1940.

Now everyone can mis-speak. But the marketing team should have checked before releasing the video.

Just shows sloppiness on the part of the director or the press/marketing department or both.

[justinj]

Fairly smooth booking process today. Got tickets to all three shows in the £20 category