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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 10:22:57 GMT
This was interesting. I enjoyed it; great cast, but boy is it long!
Greig fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 10:41:48 GMT
This was interesting. I enjoyed it; great cast, but boy is it long! I had a date like that once but that's for another day. |
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Post by drmaplewood on Nov 14, 2016 11:39:08 GMT
Managed to see it on the 2nd attempt on Friday - enjoyed it a lot but yes it can certainly do with a trim. Found the last act particularly wearing but maybe that's because I was knackered. Greig is just superb though as was most of the cast. Polite applause at the end rather than ovation but again, everyone was probably knackered. Glad I caught it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 15:03:32 GMT
Pile of sh*t
Dated characters
Wearing awful awful clothes
All obnoxious
Speak they like are reciting a mandate
Unrealistic and pathetic
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 15:04:51 GMT
Well this was splendid! Seemed right to be seeing it on the day Trump was elected and there was a point in the play where the whole audience groaned (as one of the characters was saying a democrat would soon be elected and then things would get better!) I am so glad I saw it...absorbing, fascinating play and performances from all the actors were stunning! Audience groaning from this sort of cheap trick Is so sad |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 15:12:09 GMT
I just don't get it
Characters who think they are intelligent
Speak in the most affected way
Yet dress like crap and all seem to have major mental health issues
All with first world problems
Most of which are sexually rooted
The playwright is all over this like a sh*t stain
And not in a good way
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 15:12:52 GMT
I don't think a coincidence of the line in the play with real world events can be called a 'cheap trick' more an 'interesting and unexpected moment'
On a similar note there's a lovely essay by David Roman about going to see Angels in America the night Clinton got elected and what that meant to him and his companions.
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Post by quine on Nov 18, 2016 13:22:33 GMT
Really enjoyed this last night. Must admit to being distracted by Tamsin Greig's toned arms. I need that exercise regime.
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Post by peggs on Nov 18, 2016 15:00:22 GMT
Really enjoyed this last night. Must admit to being distracted by Tamsin Greig's toned arms. I need that exercise regime. Yep when I was there, there was similar toned arm envy. |
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Post by Polly1 on Nov 18, 2016 19:23:20 GMT
Judging by the time of Parsley's posts, I would guess his comments were made at the first interval of Wed's matinee? I wonder if he stayed for the much discussed scene at the end of the 2nd act, which was one of the most exhilarating things I've seen on a stage. If Michael Boyd doesn't win a slew of best director awards, there is no justice. Play is a bit too clever for it's own good (if Stoppard makes you feel inadequate, I'd avoid this) but never less than engrossing, thanks to the top-notch acting. Greig and Calder no surprise but Luke Newberry was new to me and tremendous. Effective set too. An afternoon well spent.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 19:33:47 GMT
Yes I was there until the painful end
The scene at the end of second act was stupid
None of the scenes were realistic
People don't speak like that
And if they do
They don't wear the same awful outfit that Tamsin Greig wore for the whole play
Toned arms maybe
Needs some under eye serum urgently though
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 19:35:48 GMT
Judging by the time of Parsley's posts, I would guess his comments were made at the first interval of Wed's matinee? I wonder if he stayed for the much discussed scene at the end of the 2nd act, which was one of the most exhilarating things I've seen on a stage. If Michael Boyd doesn't win a slew of best director awards, there is no justice. Play is a bit too clever for it's own good (if Stoppard makes you feel inadequate, I'd avoid this) but never less than engrossing, thanks to the top-notch acting. Greig and Calder no surprise but Luke Newberry was new to me and tremendous. Effective set too. An afternoon well spent. Effective set? Have you ever been inside a brownstone? It doesn't look like a car park stairwell |
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Post by martin1965 on Nov 18, 2016 20:57:19 GMT
God you are a right misery! Why did you even go?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 21:18:27 GMT
God you are a right misery! Why did you even go? Paid to do so |
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Post by DuchessConstance on Nov 18, 2016 21:52:36 GMT
You had me at "too clever for its own good."
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Post by n1david on Nov 19, 2016 0:49:32 GMT
Well I liked this very much. It's what I would call a 'chewy' play - lots to think about afterwards.
Yes, it's a bit long and not all the characters ring entirely true but saying that "none of the scenes were realistic" - well, if I wanted realism I'd stick to life, but when I go to theatre I'm not fazed by characters who play roles which might not be realistic in order to drive drama.
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Post by mallardo on Nov 19, 2016 9:43:12 GMT
"Too clever for its own good"? In what way? There's none of Stoppard's intellectual dandyism - no knock on him, he's brilliant at it - just a lot of solid talk about subjects and points of view that may, perhaps, be particularly American of a certain place and time and may not be familiar to many. The programme interview with Kushner helps set the scene. These are intelligent working class people, the world is full of them.
A novel that inhabits a similar world - Brooklyn communists - from a different perspective is Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens which I would recommend to all.
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Post by jason71 on Nov 23, 2016 12:28:38 GMT
Today's matinee has been cancelled due to cast illness
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Post by popcultureboy on Nov 23, 2016 12:44:29 GMT
And the evening too.
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Post by lonlad on Nov 23, 2016 12:51:11 GMT
And it's all sold out and closing Saturday so there will be a lot of playgoers who presumably won't get into see it ... I wonder who it is who's ill?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 23, 2016 13:06:09 GMT
Oh no I was looking forward to seeing this. I'm supposed to go tonight and I haven't received any email so far.
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Post by jason71 on Nov 23, 2016 13:58:30 GMT
I received my email at 1030
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 13:58:34 GMT
Yikes, bit of a cursed production. D: Wonder if the afflicted cast member will recover by Saturday, or if I'll have to find myself another show to see.  |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 23, 2016 14:22:57 GMT
Just got my email. Do you remember when theatres used to have understudies? Good times, good times.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 14:28:11 GMT
Hampstead, the Royal Court, etc. have never been able to afford to have understudies. Often, actors (and sometimes directors or playwrights!) step up at short notice to read in for an absent actor but the performance of this play sounds (from reviews) to be much too complex for that to be satisfactory in this case.
The cancellation is a shame, but best to see it as a reminder of the magic of live theatre.
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