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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 21:05:34 GMT
Prize for anyone
Who knows what this was about
Simon Stephens
Grinning all the way through
Like an idiot
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 22:23:09 GMT
Prize for anyone Who knows what this was about Simon Stephens Grinning all the way through Like an idiot Where u there tonight? I was supposed to b but had to give up my ticket as too poor to get to London. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 22:30:48 GMT
Prize for anyone Who knows what this was about Simon Stephens Grinning all the way through Like an idiot Where u there tonight? I was supposed to b but had to give up my ticket as too poor to get to London. It's only 45 m Barely worth coming in for Utterly bizarre I was just thankful to leave builders Get away from the mess And sit in the dark Also to assess toilets at RC The theatre is peaceful as no downstairs show I could pretend the play was sophisticated It is too weird No plot No meaning But I went to partridges after And got 2 Midnight Milky ways Yummy |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 22:34:08 GMT
I'm not keen on the bogs there, too fiddly
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 22:39:44 GMT
I'm not keen on the bogs there, too fiddly Poor power in flushes And too long between cistern refill |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 22:44:50 GMT
I'm not keen on the bogs there, too fiddly Poor power in flushes And too long between cistern refill I've never been that far |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 1:40:09 GMT
I'm not keen on the bogs there, too fiddly Poor power in flushes And too long between cistern refill Ha! Now it's the Royal Court bogs. Is nothing off-limits from the scathing Parsley... |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 20, 2017 4:27:32 GMT
The ladies' loos, perhaps? Wonder how the playwright would feel if he knew that the theatre toilets were attracting greater attention (though no more favourable) than his latest work?
One day soon, no doubt, an innovative venue will stage a piece in some theatre toilets - only a short step from a promenade performance, after all. I hear the Barbican has gone unisex so maybe they'd like to lead the way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 8:05:47 GMT
I presume it's about nuclear war. Is Simon Stephens grinning a feature of the production, or are you just getting our hopes up by mentioning it?
I for one am delighted to hear about the running time. What's the seating arrangement like?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 8:13:52 GMT
I'm just delighted to hear we're talking about the play not the PM's latest announcement...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 10:22:26 GMT
The ladies' loos, perhaps? Wonder how the playwright would feel if he knew that the theatre toilets were attracting greater attention (though no more favourable) than his latest work? One day soon, no doubt, an innovative venue will stage a piece in some theatre toilets - only a short step from a promenade performance, after all. I hear the Barbican has gone unisex so maybe they'd like to lead the way. Toilets? Been done already.
broadwaybaby.com/shows/flush/36576
"Cape Theatre will perform 'Flush', an interactive, site specific performance set in the women’s toilets, literally. This performance is about water, our attitudes towards crisis, the concept of competition and oh yes there is a mermaid."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 11:26:33 GMT
an interactive, site specific performance set in the women’s toilets, literally. [...] and oh yes there is a mermaid." And I thought my house sucked. Poor thing. |
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Post by Flim Flam on Apr 20, 2017 14:36:16 GMT
I'm just delighted to hear we're talking about the play not the PM's latest announcement... Me too. I double checked to make sure it wasn't in the 'general chat' section... |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Apr 21, 2017 1:02:35 GMT
The ladies' loos, perhaps? Wonder how the playwright would feel if he knew that the theatre toilets were attracting greater attention (though no more favourable) than his latest work? One day soon, no doubt, an innovative venue will stage a piece in some theatre toilets - only a short step from a promenade performance, after all. I hear the Barbican has gone unisex so maybe they'd like to lead the way. I imagine Simon would find it hilarious. I recall Lucy Kirkwood saying she hangs out in the Court's ladies loos to hear feedback on her plays. Talk about suffering for one's art! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 16:46:04 GMT
It's about grief and loss.
Something that leaves an aching chasm.
I thought I knew someone in the audience but I couldn't be sure. When you haven't seen someone for a long time the mind plays tricks.
There is something in the air at the moment, as though everyone is waiting for something important that will trigger a reaction.
Loss leaves the whole landscape around you dead, toxic and barren.
They looked much younger than I would have thought though, although other things ran true.
It could be good or bad, a riot or a saviour.
The play is better than the production, I'd like to see it done again, maybe by students who take things like this and weave wonders.
I hope she's okay.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 30, 2017 18:11:06 GMT
I would get the dosage on those drugs changed, I reckon  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 18:39:27 GMT
I would get the dosage on those drugs changed, I reckon A post in the elliptical style that Stephens uses in this 'text for dance' expressing feelings that the production prompted. I thought people might get that. |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 30, 2017 19:50:32 GMT
They might if familiar with his work; I was baffled but am now enlightened - though strengthened in my conviction that this play is not for me.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 1:02:18 GMT
Saw this tonight and am in awe of the Royal Court yet again.
Simon Stephens wrote Nuclear War as a text for dance, and he insists that it isn't a play. But it seems to me that Imogen Knight, an experienced movement director, has directed it as a play, making the choice of casting actors instead of dancers, and including barely a whiff of dance in the movement and direction. And her approach is completely successful, as this absolutely works as a play. I fear it might have seemed more aestheticised if performed by dancers and the impact of the play might have been seen at one remove. Instead, it hits home as real in this production.
Chloe Lamford has yet again designed an intelligently marvellous environment. All we spectators share the vivid world of the central character and everyone she encounters. We are all present on exactly the same level, with exactly the same flooring underfoot, and surrounded by the same vivid boundaries. But there is another, darker world always present just above all of us, spectators and characters, and the central character is pulled both by all the people encountered in our world and by the void above.
Incidentally, some of the crowd movement sections reminded me of some of Robert Lepage's work which has thrilling choreographed movement. But I liked that, in Nuclear War, all the movement serves the play and never invites us to watch it to admire its dance qualities.
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