The Crucible - National Theatre / NT Live Jan 23 / Gielgud

[samuelwhiskers]

Surely the whole point is that the people “taking Abigail’s side” don’t share your opinion that she’s a psychopath?

It’s just an opinion after all. We all have our own opinions and perspectives on plays and on characters.

[intoanewlife]

Oct 22, 2022 17:02:49 GMT samuelwhiskers said:

Surely the whole point is that the people “taking Abigail’s side” don’t share your opinion that she’s a psychopath?

It’s just an opinion after all. We all have our own opinions and perspectives on plays and on characters.

It's not my opinion, it is what the characters is and how she was written.

There is no opinion on someone being a psychopath, they are either a psychopath or they are not.

This is a fact, you can't have opinions on facts, they are just facts. Or have facts been cancelled now too and we should all just consider Hannibal Lector was someone who was really, really hungry?

Now you can feel sorry for the psychopath if you like, but you know...actually I don't know because I would never do it. That the vast majority of the the population has no idea what a psychopath actually is (ironically they think they are all like Hannibal Lector) how they operate or what they are capable of is the problem here and the play is trying to rectify that.

This is the whole point of giving her such an unlikeable 'opponent'. We dislike Proctor because he cheated on his wife and slept with a child and we dislike the wife for taking him back and kicking Abigail out of the house. Neither of these characters is likable, so our empathy for this child kicks in immediately and we stop paying attention to what she actually does throughout the play because our judgement has been purposely clouded. 

We are then given a 'hero' to help us decipher this, Mary Wallace, who knows exactly what is going on and tells everyone the truth but crumbles because no one around her will listen and apparently no one in the audience is listening to her either. 

The whole point of the play is that if you fall for the con woman you are complicit in the con and it's aftermath.

IE If you voted for Hitler or Donald Trump or Brexit, you are complicit in what happens next because you fell for the con.

In this case if you fall for Abigail's con and were there at the time, you would've been complicit in the hanging of these women.

[samuelwhiskers]

Oct 22, 2022 18:35:15 GMT intoanewlife said:

Oct 22, 2022 17:02:49 GMT samuelwhiskers said:

Surely the whole point is that the people “taking Abigail’s side” don’t share your opinion that she’s a psychopath?

It’s just an opinion after all. We all have our own opinions and perspectives on plays and on characters.

It's not my opinion, it is what the characters is and how she was written.

There is no opinion on someone being a psychopath, they are either a psychopath or they are not.

This is a fact, you can't have opinions on facts, they are just facts. Or have facts been cancelled now too and we should all just consider Hannibal Lector was someone who was really, really hungry?

Now you can feel sorry for the psychopath if you like, but you know...actually I don't know because I would never do it. That the vast majority of the the population has no idea what a psychopath actually is (ironically they think they are all like Hannibal Lector) how they operate or what they are capable of is the problem here and the play is trying to rectify that.

This is the whole point of giving her such an unlikeable 'opponent'. We dislike Proctor because he cheated on his wife and slept with a child and we dislike the wife for taking him back and kicking Abigail out of the house. Neither of these characters is likable, so our empathy for this child kicks in immediately and we stop paying attention to what she actually does throughout the play because our judgement has been purposely clouded. 

We are then given a 'hero' to help us decipher this, Mary Wallace, who knows exactly what is going on and tells everyone the truth but crumbles because no one around her will listen and apparently no one in the audience is listening to her either. 

The whole point of the play is that if you fall for the con woman you are complicit in the con and it's aftermath.

IE If you voted for Hitler or Donald Trump or Brexit, you are complicit in what happens next because you fell for the con.

In this case if you fall for Abigail's con and were there at the time, you would've been complicit in the hanging of these women.

It is literally just an opinion. Opinions that are not the same are yours are just as valid as yours.

It’s not physically possible to say whether a fictional character is a psychopath or not since they’re not, you know, real.

It’s all just a matter of how an individual audience member chooses to interpret a fictional character, which is itself dependent on the choices the particular director and actor make (one production’s Abigail might be a psychopath, a different production might create an Abigail that is completely different.)


I really don’t think we need to compare opinions on a fictional character, with supporting Hitler.

[intoanewlife]

Oct 22, 2022 19:14:58 GMT samuelwhiskers said:

Oct 22, 2022 18:35:15 GMT intoanewlife said:

It's not my opinion, it is what the characters is and how she was written.

There is no opinion on someone being a psychopath, they are either a psychopath or they are not.

This is a fact, you can't have opinions on facts, they are just facts. Or have facts been cancelled now too and we should all just consider Hannibal Lector was someone who was really, really hungry?

Now you can feel sorry for the psychopath if you like, but you know...actually I don't know because I would never do it. That the vast majority of the the population has no idea what a psychopath actually is (ironically they think they are all like Hannibal Lector) how they operate or what they are capable of is the problem here and the play is trying to rectify that.

This is the whole point of giving her such an unlikeable 'opponent'. We dislike Proctor because he cheated on his wife and slept with a child and we dislike the wife for taking him back and kicking Abigail out of the house. Neither of these characters is likable, so our empathy for this child kicks in immediately and we stop paying attention to what she actually does throughout the play because our judgement has been purposely clouded. 

We are then given a 'hero' to help us decipher this, Mary Wallace, who knows exactly what is going on and tells everyone the truth but crumbles because no one around her will listen and apparently no one in the audience is listening to her either. 

The whole point of the play is that if you fall for the con woman you are complicit in the con and it's aftermath.

IE If you voted for Hitler or Donald Trump or Brexit, you are complicit in what happens next because you fell for the con.

In this case if you fall for Abigail's con and were there at the time, you would've been complicit in the hanging of these women.

It is literally just an opinion. Opinions that are not the same are yours are just as valid as yours.

It’s not physically possible to say whether a fictional character is a psychopath or not since they’re not, you know, real.

It’s all just a matter of how an individual audience member chooses to interpret a fictional character, which is itself dependent on the choices the particular director and actor make (one production’s Abigail might be a psychopath, a different production might create an Abigail that is completely different.)


I really don’t think we need to compare opinions on a fictional character, with supporting Hitler.

I have seen 6 production of this play and the film and Abigail is portrayed as a psychopath in all of them, including this production.

Of course people can take away what they like from any piece of art, but when something has a very distinct message and people are missing that message am I not allowed to steer them in the right direction?

I stand by the Hitler comparison (as well as the other examples) as he used the exact same methods of manipulation to get into power and commit his atrocities as Abigail deploys in the play to get what she wants.

Lets hear from the author and his inspiration behind writing the play...

'Fear doesn’t travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory’s truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next. I remember how in 1964, only twenty years after the war, Harold Clurman, the director of “Incident at Vichy,” showed the cast a film of a Hitler speech, hoping to give them a sense of the Nazi period in which my play took place. They watched as Hitler, facing a vast stadium full of adoring people, went up on his toes in ecstasy, hands clasped under his chin, a sublimely self-gratified grin on his face, his body swivelling rather cutely, and they giggled at his overacting.

Likewise, films of Senator Joseph McCarthy are rather unsettling—if you remember the fear he once spread. Buzzing his truculent sidewalk brawler’s snarl through the hairs in his nose, squinting through his cat’s eyes and sneering like a villain, he comes across now as nearly comical, a self-aware performer keeping a straight face as he does his juicy threat-shtick.

“The Crucible” was an act of desperation. Much of my desperation branched out, I suppose, from a typical Depression-era trauma—the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it had brought to power. But by 1950, when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors’ violations of civil rights, were fearful, and with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly.

In any play, however trivial, there has to be a still point of moral reference against which to gauge the action.

The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding images of common experiences in the fifties: the old friend of a blacklisted person crossing the street to avoid being seen talking to him; the overnight conversions of former leftists into born-again patriots; and so on. Apparently, certain processes are universal. When Gentiles in Hitler’s Germany, for example, saw their Jewish neighbors being trucked off, or farmers in Soviet Ukraine saw the Kulaks vanishing before their eyes, the common reaction, even among those unsympathetic to Nazism or Communism, was quite naturally to turn away in fear of being identified with the condemned. As I learned from non-Jewish refugees, however, there was often a despairing pity mixed with “Well, they must have done something.” Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable And so the evidence has to be internally denied.'

[Mr Crummles]

Oct 22, 2022 22:43:32 GMT intoanewlife said:

Oct 22, 2022 19:14:58 GMT samuelwhiskers said:

It is literally just an opinion. Opinions that are not the same are yours are just as valid as yours.

It’s not physically possible to say whether a fictional character is a psychopath or not since they’re not, you know, real.

It’s all just a matter of how an individual audience member chooses to interpret a fictional character, which is itself dependent on the choices the particular director and actor make (one production’s Abigail might be a psychopath, a different production might create an Abigail that is completely different.)


I really don’t think we need to compare opinions on a fictional character, with supporting Hitler.

I have seen 6 production of this play and the film and Abigail is portrayed as a psychopath in all of them, including this production.

Of course people can take away what they like from any piece of art, but when something has a very distinct message and people are missing that message am I not allowed to steer them in the right direction?

I stand by the Hitler comparison (as well as the other examples) as he used the exact same methods of manipulation to get into power and commit his atrocities as Abigail deploys in the play to get what she wants.

Lets hear from the author and his inspiration behind writing the play...

'Fear doesn’t travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory’s truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next. I remember how in 1964, only twenty years after the war, Harold Clurman, the director of “Incident at Vichy,” showed the cast a film of a Hitler speech, hoping to give them a sense of the Nazi period in which my play took place. They watched as Hitler, facing a vast stadium full of adoring people, went up on his toes in ecstasy, hands clasped under his chin, a sublimely self-gratified grin on his face, his body swivelling rather cutely, and they giggled at his overacting.

Likewise, films of Senator Joseph McCarthy are rather unsettling—if you remember the fear he once spread. Buzzing his truculent sidewalk brawler’s snarl through the hairs in his nose, squinting through his cat’s eyes and sneering like a villain, he comes across now as nearly comical, a self-aware performer keeping a straight face as he does his juicy threat-shtick.

“The Crucible” was an act of desperation. Much of my desperation branched out, I suppose, from a typical Depression-era trauma—the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it had brought to power. But by 1950, when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors’ violations of civil rights, were fearful, and with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly.

In any play, however trivial, there has to be a still point of moral reference against which to gauge the action.

The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding images of common experiences in the fifties: the old friend of a blacklisted person crossing the street to avoid being seen talking to him; the overnight conversions of former leftists into born-again patriots; and so on. Apparently, certain processes are universal. When Gentiles in Hitler’s Germany, for example, saw their Jewish neighbors being trucked off, or farmers in Soviet Ukraine saw the Kulaks vanishing before their eyes, the common reaction, even among those unsympathetic to Nazism or Communism, was quite naturally to turn away in fear of being identified with the condemned. As I learned from non-Jewish refugees, however, there was often a despairing pity mixed with “Well, they must have done something.” Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable And so the evidence has to be internally denied.'

This is a very interesting discussion. I think most people balk at Intoanewlife's description of Abigail as a psychopath because they probably have in mind the more stereotypical characteristics of a male psychopath. I was a bit confused myself, to be honest, and then decided to google it. This is what I found in www.choosingtherapy.com/female-psychopaths/:

1. They Develop Relationships With Their Victims
2. They Use Indirect Forms of Aggression
3. They Play the Victim Card
4. They Can’t Hold in Their Anger for Long
5. They Use Deceptive Tactics to Get What They Want
6. They Want Acceptance, but Sabotage Relationships
7. They Leverage Secrets & Personal Information
8. They Get Other People to Do Their Dirty Work
9. They Are Emotionally Unstable
10. They Are Good at Pretending

From what I remember of the play, Abigail does tick most, if not all, of these points.

[nottobe]

I saw this last night and I have to say I found it very dull and did not connect to it at all. This is the third Miller I have seen and my least favourite, but I have never really loved his work.

For me this production is the sort of thing a non theatre fan would think theatre is and hence be turned off. Lots of people standing around talking and moving thier hands alot as the speak. I really wanted to love it but especially in act 2 found my mind wondering a lot.

[edi]

Oct 23, 2022 9:31:41 GMT Mr Crummles said:

Oct 22, 2022 22:43:32 GMT intoanewlife said:

I have seen 6 production of this play and the film and Abigail is portrayed as a psychopath in all of them, including this production.

Of course people can take away what they like from any piece of art, but when something has a very distinct message and people are missing that message am I not allowed to steer them in the right direction?

I stand by the Hitler comparison (as well as the other examples) as he used the exact same methods of manipulation to get into power and commit his atrocities as Abigail deploys in the play to get what she wants.

Lets hear from the author and his inspiration behind writing the play...

'Fear doesn’t travel well; just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory’s truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next. I remember how in 1964, only twenty years after the war, Harold Clurman, the director of “Incident at Vichy,” showed the cast a film of a Hitler speech, hoping to give them a sense of the Nazi period in which my play took place. They watched as Hitler, facing a vast stadium full of adoring people, went up on his toes in ecstasy, hands clasped under his chin, a sublimely self-gratified grin on his face, his body swivelling rather cutely, and they giggled at his overacting.

Likewise, films of Senator Joseph McCarthy are rather unsettling—if you remember the fear he once spread. Buzzing his truculent sidewalk brawler’s snarl through the hairs in his nose, squinting through his cat’s eyes and sneering like a villain, he comes across now as nearly comical, a self-aware performer keeping a straight face as he does his juicy threat-shtick.

“The Crucible” was an act of desperation. Much of my desperation branched out, I suppose, from a typical Depression-era trauma—the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it had brought to power. But by 1950, when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors’ violations of civil rights, were fearful, and with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly.

In any play, however trivial, there has to be a still point of moral reference against which to gauge the action.

The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding images of common experiences in the fifties: the old friend of a blacklisted person crossing the street to avoid being seen talking to him; the overnight conversions of former leftists into born-again patriots; and so on. Apparently, certain processes are universal. When Gentiles in Hitler’s Germany, for example, saw their Jewish neighbors being trucked off, or farmers in Soviet Ukraine saw the Kulaks vanishing before their eyes, the common reaction, even among those unsympathetic to Nazism or Communism, was quite naturally to turn away in fear of being identified with the condemned. As I learned from non-Jewish refugees, however, there was often a despairing pity mixed with “Well, they must have done something.” Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable And so the evidence has to be internally denied.'

This is a very interesting discussion. I think most people balk at Intoanewlife's description of Abigail as a psychopath because they probably have in mind the more stereotypical characteristics of a male psychopath. I was a bit confused myself, to be honest, and then decided to google it. This is what I found in www.choosingtherapy.com/female-psychopaths/:

1. They Develop Relationships With Their Victims
2. They Use Indirect Forms of Aggression
3. They Play the Victim Card
4. They Can’t Hold in Their Anger for Long
5. They Use Deceptive Tactics to Get What They Want
6. They Want Acceptance, but Sabotage Relationships
7. They Leverage Secrets & Personal Information
8. They Get Other People to Do Their Dirty Work
9. They Are Emotionally Unstable
10. They Are Good at Pretending

From what I remember of the play, Abigail does tick most, if not all, of these points.

Yes it's a very interesting discussion indeed, and I think the reason I did not think of Abigail as a psychopath because I saw her role as a catalyst, the town had lots of brewing issues between the adults and Abigail just triggered the subsequent witch allegations.

Simply, I saw it from a completely different view point, I wasn't putting the blame on a single "psychopath " person, male or female.

For example the person who became a victim for reading books... This kind of nonsense was perpetuated by adults, many of them were apparently much better educated than the children, and they should have known better. But they were also driven by revenge and greed and prejudice.

The beauty of art and theatre is that none of these are "facts" and we can interpret it differently, based on our life experience, expectations, etc. I heavily relied on the real Salem events to formulate my opinion.

[couldileaveyou]

I think both things can be true. Arthur Miller clearly doesn't have sympathy for Abigail and I don't think he was planning for us to feel any. In the play she definitely is a villain - or maybe even THE villain - but a 2022 audience can also acknowledge that she's been "seduced" and abandoned by a much older man, suffered public disgrace for it, she had no ally or mother-figure she could confide with, no autonomy, and no rights. Her "confessions" during the trials are the only moments in her life in which she experiences power and people listen to her. If they hanged Abigail at the end I wouldn't feel sorry for her, but just like we feel more sympathy for Clytemnestra now than Aeschylus' intended audience ever did, we can probably also look at her as more than just pure evil

[intoanewlife]

Oct 23, 2022 10:39:39 GMT couldileaveyou said:

I think both things can be true. Arthur Miller clearly doesn't have sympathy for Abigail and I don't think he was planning for us to feel any. In the play she definitely is a villain - or maybe even THE villain - but a 2022 audience can also acknowledge that she's been "seduced" and abandoned by a much older man, suffered public disgrace for it, she had no ally or mother-figure she could confide with, no autonomy, and no rights. Her "confessions" during the trials are the only moments in her life in which she experiences power and people listen to her. If they hanged Abigail at the end I wouldn't feel sorry for her, but just like we feel more sympathy for Clytemnestra now than Aeschylus' intended audience ever did, we can probably also look at her as more than just pure evil

Both could be true...but...that is not what happens in the play.

SHE seduced a married man with 2 children and another on the way. She admits this in scene 2 and then tries and fails to seduce him again right before our very eyes.

She saw an opportunity while his wife was pregnant and unable to fulfill certain 'needs', (which he'd have probably quite happily gone without and was used to until it was offered to him) and decides to take advantage of that situation and steal her husband. The seduction of this man was her intent. You could also say it is the intent of the young girls casting love spells on the adult males in the village...but I digress, as these are innocent children we are talking about here...soooo....

When Abigail fails and is put out (and what woman wouldn't have done that) she enlists the help of someone who could probably be described as a witch (certainly in those times) to cast a death curse on a woman with whom she has an axe to grind. The death of this woman is now her intent.

The irony of course being that the only people in the town practicing witchcraft were the ones accusing everyone else of doing so...but once again these are innocent children here...soooo...

Lets take a second here to discuss this man too. He is not a well educated misogynist stockbroker from Shoreditch with 6 kids to 4 different women shagging himself senseless and abusing women left right and centre. He is John Proctor, not Boris Johnson or Donald Trump. He is a simple (probably VEEEEEERY simply) puritanical farmer in the 1600's and he suffers great guilt for what he did and is quite frankly far nicer to her than most would've been initially. The age of consent at the time was 12, so regardless of what you think their age gap and the fact they didn't exactly have children rights back then, he didn't actually do anything wrong to this girl, he did something wrong to his wife.

Lets also be real here, although modern thinking is that someone who is 16 years old is still a child, C'mon. 16 year olds are not that sweet and innocent and I know this because I've been 16 years old. I also have 6 nieces and nephews who have been 16 loooong after I was and every single one of them was 16 going on 30. Most 16 year olds make bad decisions on an almost hourly basis, but most don't decide to destroy the world because they did so, no matter what time period they live in. 

Now, it is true this girl has not had a great start in life that cannot be denied. But a non disordered person wouldn't have gone into the situation with intent. They wouldn't keep trying to seduce a married man, they would accept his decision and move on. They would take the wives feelings into consideration, not try and have her killed. At every twist and turn thrown at her, she takes the route of dishonesty and the destruction of anyone who crosses her path.

She also did not suffer public disgrace. No one in the town knew about the affair apart from the children and the only reason they knew was because she told them so she could manipulate them. It also probably had a fair bit to do with why the children were casting spells on adult men, instead of boys their age, because they'd been manipulated into thinking it was normal after hearing about Abigail's affair. The Proctors did not tell anyone for very obvious reasons, so once again her first natural instinct to manipulate got herself into that situation. A non disordered girl would've felt the same shame John Proctor did, accepted they'd made a terrible mistake, moved on and never told a living soul. 

As for her not having anyone. She did have a family (though not a very nice one) and a roof over head, so pretty much the same basics as everyone else of the time. If she didn't cause such mayhem, she wouldn't have needed support and she'd have only lied and manipulated whoever was supporting her anyway. Tituba (an adult) and all the children were already brainwashed by her and totally under her control, so she had them all at her disposal...literally.

All of this is by the by, because any simple change to the original scenario of these 3 individuals does not alter the central theme of the play. If John DIDN'T fall for Abigail's advances, we would still have had the same outcome. He'd have told his wife and she would've been removed from the house. She could've never even met him, became fixated on him and STILL done the same thing. This girl wanted this man and she would've always done what she ended up doing. Her actions will always be the same because of her personality disorder.

If we focus on all of this stuff however, we are missing the central point of the play, which is how one 'person' (disordered or not) with a cross to bear (or no cross to bear) can gain great power through manipulation and destroy an entire population by weaponising their own fears and prejudices and turning them against them. And if we've played a part of that destruction, we have to share responsibility.

I think this is more a case of people focusing too much on their own personal feelings about the moral ambiguity of the situation that triggers this 'event' and that is clearly clouding their judgement of the event itself.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it is an entirely natural reaction, but it is an incorrect interpretation of the material and that is all I am trying to point out here. You are still completely free to feel however you like about the play, I am just trying to a have a discussion on a discussion board because I find it very interesting that this is happening about this particularly play.

There is an excellent Netflix doc from a few years back called Casting JonBenet which actual covers this subject extremely well and how it affects out justice systems, I highly recommend people having a look at it.

[Being Alive]

Somehow never seen the play before (although I have definitely read it), despite it being heralded as one of the best plays of the 20th century...you would sadly not know this based on the current production in the Olivier.

The main issue is this is a show designed for the Lyttleton, that has inexplicably been put on the Olivier. The pay off is the final scene, which I grant looks gorgeous, but the 2 and a half hours leading up to that are so at odds with the space that it drove me nuts. Oh, and I should have learnt by now that a rain curtain at the Nash means the production won't be very good...

Didn't think much of any of the actors really - everyone, with barely any exception, doing terrible accents. Erin Doherty screaming her way through a role that there is definitely some nuance in - she's super talented but this was not it. Brendan Cowell (?) was a good Proctor but the whole production just feels at odds with itself. Thought a lot of the rest of the cast were wildly Miscast (especially reverend Hale) but did like the girl from Our Generation as Mary Warren.

For all its faults, it did fly by at the nearly 3 hour running time. But it's in the wrong auditorium.
That said, full Olivier auditorium, which is a lovely sight.

[ThereWillBeSun]

Saw this on Monday - I thought the set was very Nash but a bit of a gimmick. The sound felt quite faint as well. The accents I was a bit unsure of; it was like a hybrid American/English - but reminded me of Newfoundland a bit?! Whether that was their intention or not... I was sat next to someone whose ancestors were convicted in the actual Salem Witch Trials; and her great great great x great aunt was a character in the play. Cool insight. Despite my critiques - I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a show at the National (HEX and Wuthering Heights were awful) The Normal Heart was possibly the last time I did walk away feeling it was something worth seeing. For me, I'm so happy I finally watched The Crucible. Packed house too - but it was Halloween so not surprising.

[stevemar]

I enjoyed this recently but felt that Brendan Cowell was very underpowered. Unfortunately I had the Old Vic version with Richard Armitage’s electric performance and in the round where the atmosphere of frenzy built up. I can see how this was rather static at the National. Still, once you got into it, the tension really built.

Re: the discussion above, whilst she is young, I did see Abigail as manipulative and acting maliciously, though of course she can only take some responsibility as the frenzy of blame built up.

[BurlyBeaR]

Any thoughts on the cinema presentation?

[intoanewlife]

Jan 26, 2023 20:50:26 GMT BurlyBeaR said:

Any thoughts on the cinema presentation?

Unless they have cameras filming on the stage I imagine it'll be mostly people stood with their backs to the camera...

[Rory]

Transferring to the Gielgud, according to the BBC.

[zahidf]

7th June until 2nd September in the west end

[londonpostie]

From set exam text to peak tourist season, and good luck to them.

[NorthernAlien]

When something like this transfers, is it usually the same cast?

[alicechallice]

Feb 21, 2023 12:54:01 GMT NorthernAlien said:

When something like this transfers, is it usually the same cast?

Not necessarily, depends how many of the cast may have got other jobs in the interim. 

I expect they will have tried to secure most of the principals at least, for the transfer. 

But one can only wait so long in the current climate. 

[maggiem]

www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/the-crucible-to-transfer-to-the-west-end

this page says casting is still to be announced.

[intoanewlife]

They need to worry more about finding a decent director than a cast....

[Dave B]

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[londonpostie]

Full houses at HQ and - I think - this will be the third show playing up west (Lehman, Ocean at the End of the Lane)?

Happy days for the lyricist of Hex.

[Dave B]

Mar 9, 2023 12:19:20 GMT londonpostie said:

Full houses at HQ and - I think - this will be the third show playing up west (Lehman, Ocean at the End of the Lane)?

Happy days for the lyricist of Hex.

Ocean is gone on tour, just Lehman currently open from NT in WE.

[teamyali]

Bummed that Erin Doherty may not be joining the West End transfer as she’s working on a Disney+ series at the moment…

http://instagram.com/p/Cp2DJ52NWmv

She would have been at least a draw to the theatregoer crowd due to being in The Crown previously. Oh well.