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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 18, 2020 19:09:02 GMT
I see that Quetee and Zeb both have threads up for different companies, and I have another one to add. So how about a master thread to keep track of them all? I know of at least three companies at the moment. I'll check back every day to update the thread if need be, so I can replace shows that are no longer available. National TheatreCurrent production: Les Blancs Old VicCurrent production: Mood Music Royal Shakespeare CompanyCurrent production: Macbeth The Shows Must Go OnCurrent production: Michael Flatley's Celtic Tiger Stratford FestivalCurrent productions: The Adventures of Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra, King John, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet Also, here a 1974 performance of King Lear starring James Earl Jones. Thanks to Pac for finding this: allarts.org/programs/all-arts-vault-selects/king-lear-pmaa5j/
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Post by Zeb31 on Apr 19, 2020 20:10:10 GMT
This is a wonderful idea, thanks! About NT Live: One Man, Two Guvnors was a total delight (never thought I'd say that about anything with James Corden as a lead), and I really admired the inventive staging of their Jane Eyre. Fantastic ensembles, both of them. I'll get around to Treasure Island sometime this week, but it doesn't look particularly interesting at all.  At least it isn't 3 hours like the other spectacles that have been announced so far, but it's clearly the least enticing of the bunch. |
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Post by morton on Apr 22, 2020 22:18:24 GMT
Paging pacinoyes , pupdurcs , and basically everyone else. Next Thursday audiences will be able to watch The Oedipus Project starring Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Jeffrey Wright, Oscar Isaac, etc. on Zoom. Here's a link. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 22, 2020 22:30:38 GMT
And I totally forgot about this despite saying that I'd update every day. Sorry about that. Gonna update in a sec.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 23, 2020 17:39:22 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 23, 2020 19:03:13 GMT
I was watching Twelfth Night, then an hour in it cut out and started over. Well, that'll be the last time I watch one of these live, if you can't keep your broadcast schedule straight.
Bah, it wasn't very good anyway.
I'll edit the show into the master post once it finishes airing.
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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 24, 2020 5:10:05 GMT
Paging pacinoyes , pupdurcs , and basically everyone else. Next Thursday audiences will be able to watch The Oedipus Project starring Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Jeffrey Wright, Oscar Isaac, etc. on Zoom. Here's a link. Thanks! |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 29, 2020 20:57:18 GMT
Bump for the next 2 days if you want to set a reminder  |
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Post by pacinoyes on May 3, 2020 16:20:37 GMT
Antony & Cleopatra
A tremendous cast ensured that the huge Olivier was sold out for Simon Godwin’s modern-dress production two years ago. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo star as the lovers, with strong support from Katy Stephens as Agrippa and Tim McMullan as a revelatory Enobarbus. Available to stream for seven days from Thursday May 7th, 7pm on the National Theatre’s YouTube channel. 
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Post by Martin Stett on May 3, 2020 21:46:09 GMT
Frankenstein (Miller as the Creature)
This starts off so wonderfully that I felt let down by it merely being "good." The opening, Malickian scenes were wonderful, and if the whole story could have been communicated through that impressionistic style I would have been in love. But there is a lot of explaining and exposition going on later, and although none of it is "bad," it doesn't match up to the brilliance of what Boyle achieved earlier. I think that this is a script that needed to be whittled down as much as possible, a director's showcase to demonstrate the Creature's motivations through its visuals (the first major misstep was having the Creature say "I'm gonna burn this house down out of VENGEANCE" instead of communicating it through other means).
Still, it's a bang-up story and both of the leads are good. Miles better than the source material. I just found myself a little wistful for what Boyle demonstrated that he could have achieved.
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Post by Martin Stett on May 4, 2020 10:02:27 GMT
Globe is doing The Two Noble Kinsmen next. Probably Shakespeare's most obscure play, but I enjoyed reading it. I swear, there is a scene in jail that is begging to have the characters break into Mel Brooks's "Prisoners of Love" and if I were to direct the play I would demand the rights to that song or I just wouldn't stage it.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on May 6, 2020 17:43:50 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on May 7, 2020 10:26:34 GMT
Another biggie with an ace performance by Gillian Anderson - and where the fnck are my Ben Foster fanboys at in this thread? Why do I have to post this stuff anyway? Because it makes me a Comanche.........or something.......
Watch A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson as Stella from Thursday 21 May at 7pm UK time until 28 May at 7pm.
Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall, Sex Education) plays Blanche DuBois with Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Mission Impossible 7) as Stella.ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/ntlout7-a-streetcar-named-desire |
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Post by Martin Stett on May 8, 2020 23:53:29 GMT
Two Noble Kinsmen is good fun. Nothing exceptionally funny, but full of good humor, singing, dancing, fighting, revenge, true love... no miracles, sadly. This feels like a bit like an old swashbuckler or musical in that it's more interested in spectacle and fun, instead of comedy and straight laughs.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 13, 2020 23:10:02 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on May 15, 2020 23:49:30 GMT
Cats
To quote one of the greatest movies ever made:
"Well, that was different."
"I think it's time we celebrated our differences."
"Yes, well maybe not in public."
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Post by Martin Stett on May 16, 2020 2:10:13 GMT
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Post by quetee on May 17, 2020 20:28:39 GMT
I survived Cats. Ummm, not sure why anybody thought it was a good idea to make a film version. They introduce a cat. They dance. They sing. More cats. More dancing. I believe there was a 15 min dance break. Ohh look at how that person looks in the cat makeup. Ohhh that person moves like a cat. Wait was that a roach?
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Post by quetee on May 17, 2020 20:29:58 GMT
Interesting to note that Cats was trending and got about 3mil views. Phantom on the other hand actual made it to #1 and had over 12mil views.
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Post by Martin Stett on May 17, 2020 20:52:40 GMT
I survived Cats. Ummm, not sure why anybody thought it was a good idea to make a film version. They introduce a cat. They dance. They sing. More cats. More dancing. I believe there was a 15 min dance break. Ohh look at how that person looks in the cat makeup. Ohhh that person moves like a cat. Wait was that a roach? I liked it a lot. It's a straight up plotless musical revue and I was smiling the whole time. You either accept that or you don't, I guess. Also helps if you're a cat person, I think: this is basically an excuse to make songs about various behaviors that you'll see in the neighborhood cats. As someone who plans his morning walks by where the cats are, I can say that Eliot and Webber do a pretty good job of that. |
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Post by quetee on May 17, 2020 22:47:30 GMT
I survived Cats. Ummm, not sure why anybody thought it was a good idea to make a film version. They introduce a cat. They dance. They sing. More cats. More dancing. I believe there was a 15 min dance break. Ohh look at how that person looks in the cat makeup. Ohhh that person moves like a cat. Wait was that a roach? I liked it a lot. It's a straight up plotless musical revue and I was smiling the whole time. You either accept that or you don't, I guess. Also helps if you're a cat person, I think: this is basically an excuse to make songs about various behaviors that you'll see in the neighborhood cats. As someone who plans his morning walks by where the cats are, I can say that Eliot and Webber do a pretty good job of that. I didn't dislike it and it had some good parts. Memories is of course a showstopper. I can understand why that song has stood the test of time. I enjoyed the dancing but to translate it to film ...… I don't know. |
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Post by Martin Stett on May 30, 2020 0:40:45 GMT
This House is a blast. People yelling politics at each other and trying to scramble for power. For three hours, at four hundred words a minute. Baby, I am in heaven.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 3, 2020 20:16:10 GMT
Here's the recent-ish PBS version of a great play The Gin Game (Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke) - they play this slightly too cutesy which confuses the text but it's not bad and I can't find another version online.
The best version is Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn who played it tough and sad - which is the point - you find out how they drove their kids away .......but it has to be played almost perfectly to really get it. I saw James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson do it (too nicely unfortunately) and I always thought it would be great for Pacino/Streep (and Streep wants that Tony Award dammit!)
A great play that hasn't had a great production in a loooooooong time.........
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 6, 2020 0:47:25 GMT
Coriolanus is, in my opinion, Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. This production starring a low-key Tom Hiddleston (no pun intended, I swear!) is excellent, but it's hard to screw up Coriolanus. I've seen three productions now (one with Patrick Page, the movie version by Ralph Fiennes, and now this) and each of them are pretty similar to each other, because there is little ambiguity to any of the character arcs the way you see in The Tempest or some of Willie's other works.
Still, it's masterfully written and if you have never seen a production before, DEFINITELY check this one out.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 12, 2020 23:59:01 GMT
The Madness of George III left me feeling indifferent. My problem is simply that the drama going on isn't exactly scintillating stuff. George is sick so there are treatments and a little bit of backroom politicking, but nothing that actually feels... momentous. If you were to cut any individual scene, it wouldn't matter. And then you could go on cutting scenes and cutting and cutting and you'd have nothing left and there wouldn't be any less impact.
It's not that I disliked this production. Gatiss is entertaining and everyone is fine, and there's nothing that exactly annoyed me. But the whole show feels so slight. It's cotton candy that is amusing enough and if it was on TV I probably wouldn't change the channel because it would be just amusing enough that I'd think "why bother."
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At least it isn't 3 hours like the other spectacles that have been announced so far, but it's clearly the least enticing of the bunch.
