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Post by bordeaux on Jun 30, 2022 15:54:26 GMT
Cheek by Jowl have just announced this with some Spanish and French dates. Co-production with the Barbican so with any luck it will be arriving here some time next year. In Spanish.
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Post by Jan on Jun 30, 2022 20:11:52 GMT
Cheek by Jowl have just announced this with some Spanish and French dates. Co-production with the Barbican so with any luck it will be arriving here some time next year. In Spanish. Seen this play twice (Donmar & RSC). Doubt that seeing it in Spanish will make it any better. Spanish Golden Age plays are difficult. |
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Post by bordeaux on Jun 30, 2022 21:46:11 GMT
Cheek by Jowl have just announced this with some Spanish and French dates. Co-production with the Barbican so with any luck it will be arriving here some time next year. In Spanish. Seen this play twice (Donmar & RSC). Doubt that seeing it in Spanish will make it any better. Spanish Golden Age plays are difficult. Yes, they can be. I don't remember particularly enjoying this the one time I saw it. But I've seen several Lope de Vega plays which worked very well: Fuente Ovejuna (Donellan at the NT in about 1990, I would guess) and Peribanez and the Young Vic about 20 years ago directed by a young Rufus Norris. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 30, 2022 21:52:07 GMT
Cheek by Jowl at their least impressive are often better than most other companies.
Their Andromaque was utterly mesmerising
Ubu Roi was forensic and intriguing
Didn't care much for their Russian Measure for Measure. But their Tempest also in Russian was the best version of the play I have seen
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Post by Jan on Jul 1, 2022 5:51:05 GMT
Cheek by Jowl at their least impressive are often better than most other companies. I haven't found that. I'd say what you get from them are competent good-but-not-great productions that recycle staging ideas that were fresh in the 1980s but are over-familiar now. Always worth seeing though. About the best I've seen from them is their final scene in Cymbeline which played it absolutely seriously and was surprisingly moving. |
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Post by bordeaux on Jul 1, 2022 13:50:22 GMT
Cheek by Jowl at their least impressive are often better than most other companies. I haven't found that. I'd say what you get from them are competent good-but-not-great productions that recycle staging ideas that were fresh in the 1980s but are over-familiar now. Always worth seeing though. About the best I've seen from them is their final scene in Cymbeline which played it absolutely seriously and was surprisingly moving. With a brilliant Tom Hiddleston playing both Cloten and Posthumus. |
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Post by bordeaux on Apr 14, 2023 10:00:01 GMT
I enjoyed this very much last night. I had only the vaguest memories of the play having seen a version in the 90s that came down to London from Scotland, I seem to remember. There are elements of Shakespeare's late plays in there (foolish fathers and their children), but the play is very much sui generis, though as a former German student the whole dream-reality thing is very much part of that culture too (I did think of Kleist on occasion!). Played straight through for two hours with no interval (good decision). I'd be interested to hear what Spanish people who know the play thought; the audience loved it, and in that continental way managed to come on for five bows at the end, a constrast to the stingy one bow I had earlier in the day at Streetcar.
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Post by alessia on Apr 14, 2023 10:11:45 GMT
I'm going to see this on Sunday with a Spanish friend, I will report back! And I look forward very much now.
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Post by barelyathletic on Apr 14, 2023 10:40:02 GMT
Seeing it tonight. Their production of Tis Pity She's A Whore a few years back was sensational, in the very best way. I'm happy enough to read surtitles but I would love to see another English language production from Cheek by Jowl. They seem to have rather given up on that, though their sense of theatre remains unbeatable.
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Post by alessia on Apr 16, 2023 21:18:34 GMT
Both my friend and I loved this. He's Spanish so had seen this play before and studied it at school- it was great fun hearing his thoughts at the end. He felt that the additional surreal/dream like elements like the music that were added to the religious core element of the original, worked well. we both loved the acting and the way it was staged. We were in the stalls and near the isle so got approached a couple of times by the mad prince, all adding to the atmosphere.
I'm sure (my friend confirmed this) that I've missed quite a lot by having to read the subtitles, but I felt that I still got a lot out of it. I thought it was fabulous.
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