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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 17:20:42 GMT
The Other Place is reopening next month for the latest Mischief thing. I don’t call that opening. I call this opening: THE OTHER PLACE (2001) A Russian in the Woods (Peter Whelan) The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Martin McDonagh) The Prisoners Dilemma (David Edgar) |
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 17:21:50 GMT
Swan has opening pencilled in. Let’s see. Building works traditionally overrun (and cost more). |
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Post by richardh on Sept 4, 2022 17:58:25 GMT
March reopening is the plan for The Swan, according to an RSC staff member last week.
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Post by cirque on Sept 4, 2022 17:59:40 GMT
Mischief. What on Earth is that all about.
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Post by cavocado on Sept 4, 2022 18:01:34 GMT
They're announcing their spring season in the next couple of weeks, so it will be interesting to see if the Swan is reopening as promised - I think they said March 2023.
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Post by Jon on Sept 4, 2022 19:11:21 GMT
I'm sure the usual suspects will be writing the RSC's obituary whoever is announced as AD.
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Post by Jan on Sept 4, 2022 19:58:08 GMT
I'm sure the usual suspects will be writing the RSC's obituary whoever is announced as AD. And I’m sure the usual suspects will be saying “Let’s give her a chance” when it’s Whyman, who has been there nine years already. There are plenty of people who could rescue the RSC even amongst the quite short list of people who might be interested - Goold, Godwin, Warner, Church, Littler. But it’s not going to be any of them is it ? All’s Well has been running for a while now yet no one here seems to have seen it yet. That’s how irrelevant they’ve become. |
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Post by lichtie on Sept 4, 2022 20:21:59 GMT
Mischief. What on Earth is that all about. It's Whyman's baby isn't it? Didn't she kick it off? There have been a couple of good things amongst the forgettable tosh... But that kind of small scale drama is probably what the Other Place is best used for. |
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Post by tributary on Sept 4, 2022 20:48:44 GMT
My instinct is that the new artistic director will 100% be from our current roster of British Theatre Artistic Directors. It won't be someone with a body of work of Shakespeare productions. I'm thinking either Nadia Fall, Daniel Evans, Indhu Rubasingham or Tamara Harvey. Two of these names are right. It’s not Erica. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 5, 2022 6:23:15 GMT
Mischief. What on Earth is that all about. It's Whyman's baby isn't it? Didn't she kick it off? There have been a couple of good things amongst the forgettable tosh... But that kind of small scale drama is probably what the Other Place is best used for. Some of their best Shakespeare productions have been in the Other Place - the McKellen Macbeth, Simon Russell-Beale Richard III, Ben Kingsley Hamlet, Deborah Warner's King John, Katie Mitchell's Henry VI Part 3. |
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Post by lynette on Sept 5, 2022 15:49:52 GMT
I'm sure the usual suspects will be writing the RSC's obituary whoever is announced as AD. And I’m sure the usual suspects will be saying “Let’s give her a chance” when it’s Whyman, who has been there nine years already. There are plenty of people who could rescue the RSC even amongst the quite short list of people who might be interested - Goold, Godwin, Warner, Church, Littler. But it’s not going to be any of them is it ? All’s Well has been running for a while now yet no one here seems to have seen it yet. That’s how irrelevant they’ve become. Seeing it end of Sept. Couldn’t get there earlier. 😁 |
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Post by cirque on Sept 15, 2022 12:21:34 GMT
A plea to new AD when in post
Please stop calling RSC the Royal Shakespeare Community……is it not a company ?
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Post by Jan on Sept 15, 2022 17:49:41 GMT
A plea to new AD when in post Please stop calling RSC the Royal Shakespeare Community……is it not a company ? No. It isn't. Doran made it quite clear when he took over he was de-emphasising the company aspect - one of the few promises that he kept. I heard vague rumours about Daniel Evans for this job - I wouldn't be opposed to that. Incidentally, why on earth is it taking so long to appoint somebody ? It is absurd - we have had a new PM and a new Monarch installed in the time they have been deliberating. |
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Post by cirque on Sept 16, 2022 15:47:17 GMT
i heard too Daniel Evans......should know soon.lots of rumours but thats all.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 16, 2022 17:47:16 GMT
Wouldn’t any one of those four names have needed to give notice on their current directorships though? It would be bad form to just jump ship so swiftly, wouldn’t it?
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Post by imstillhere on Sept 16, 2022 18:09:12 GMT
My final guess is Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey. Which wonderfully leaves Nadia Fall or Indhu Rubasingham open for the NT!
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Post by tributary on Sept 16, 2022 18:27:03 GMT
Your guess is correct.
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Post by Jon on Sept 16, 2022 19:43:52 GMT
My final guess is Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey. Which wonderfully leaves Nadia Fall or Indhu Rubasingham open for the NT! Indu Rubasingham would be interesting for the NT but it's a much bigger challenge compared to the Kiln. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 16, 2022 20:23:10 GMT
What’s the connection between them ? Can’t recall that they’ve ever worked together. |
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Post by cirque on Sept 16, 2022 21:57:04 GMT
Believe Tuesday may be something…..
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Post by lorne81 on Sept 17, 2022 18:25:14 GMT
My final guess is Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey. Which wonderfully leaves Nadia Fall or Indhu Rubasingham open for the NT! Interesting. One of those is possibly the nicest person I’ve ever met in theatre, and the other is one of the worst bullies I’ve ever encountered..! |
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Post by David J on Sept 17, 2022 18:50:51 GMT
Interesting really.
As Artistic Director at Chichester Daniel Evans hasn't made the greatest impact. But then again he had big shoes to fill after Jonathan Church.
And the output Chichester has made was generally better than what the RSC has done in the last 5 years. So I can give Daniel Evans a chance.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 17, 2022 18:56:27 GMT
My final guess is Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey. Which wonderfully leaves Nadia Fall or Indhu Rubasingham open for the NT! Interesting. One of those is possibly the nicest person I’ve ever met in theatre, and the other is one of the worst bullies I’ve ever encountered..! Do tell... In private if necessary!! |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 17, 2022 19:02:03 GMT
Daniel Evans hasn't directed much Shakespeare but he has at least done some. He has acted in a good number.
Plus he knows how to put on a big crowd pleasing show which should help RSC finances if he can find the right musical.
I suspect he has a pretty decent little black book of high profile contacts who might be persuaded to do a season or two.
Tamara Harvey seems to be a new writing specialist. But has broadened her scope in her current role.
I am not hugely enthused by this as a possible leadership pair. But I am very happy to see what they could achieve.
Anything is better than 5 more years of the current mess
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Post by cirque on Sept 18, 2022 8:32:21 GMT
i think we still guess as the smoke has not wafted across the Avon until this week.
The joint appointment may work and agree it is better than the mess RSC are in. However is this going to restore company to world leading status...? Think not but at least they can call on contacts to make work unlike the last few years of third raters.
Hear Hamlet opens Swan with EW directing....maybe at last the entire community can play Elsinore in all its forms.
It will be at least a year before new AD's make any season and by then the company may be over.....dont sell your houses yet you two-if it is you who come to RSC.
Anyway-hopeful if not over the moon.
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