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So apparently I am now going to two plays in the Harold Pinter Theatre before the end of the year... I wish they'd stop putting good plays on there because I HATE IT. I'm not even exaggerating. It's uncomfortable, the sight lines are dreadful, there are pillars everywhere, the balcony is so steep it sets off my vertigo and it's just HORRIBLE. Also it's ATG so ticket fees galore *sighs*
But I guess visit one is my own fault for not getting to Chimerica before it transferred and visit two? Well how do you resist a play with a cast list like this: Brendan Coyle, Rupert Grint , Tom Rhys Harries, Daniel Mays, Colin Morgan AND Ben Whishaw
So yes. Damn them all.
(as I type this the advert for Peaky Blinders came on- I know it's the name of a real life gang but I can't hear it without laughing which I don't think is the mood the show is going for)
The Olivier Awards facebook account just posted a quote I identify with rather too much:
The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains.
Iris Murdoch
Oh and in more theatre-adjacent news Penguin Random House are launching a series of retellings of Shakespeare written by authors including Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson and Jeanette Winterson. I think maybe some of this had been announced before but I was paying attention? Anyway it mostly makes me think three things.
1) Intriguing... I'm going to have to give them a try but we'll see.
2) Why did the Canongate Myth Series stop :-(
3) They really should have called the company Random Penguin *sighs*
To finish let's have a different branch of the arts- have you seen that they've "found" a new Van Gogh? Stories like this are so incredible but it does seem to be genuine and (even in the tiny news pictures) it looks wonderful. I love the way the trees twist with the clouds and the sky.
But I guess visit one is my own fault for not getting to Chimerica before it transferred and visit two? Well how do you resist a play with a cast list like this: Brendan Coyle, Rupert Grint , Tom Rhys Harries, Daniel Mays, Colin Morgan AND Ben Whishaw
So yes. Damn them all.
(as I type this the advert for Peaky Blinders came on- I know it's the name of a real life gang but I can't hear it without laughing which I don't think is the mood the show is going for)
The Olivier Awards facebook account just posted a quote I identify with rather too much:
The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains.
Iris Murdoch
Oh and in more theatre-adjacent news Penguin Random House are launching a series of retellings of Shakespeare written by authors including Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson and Jeanette Winterson. I think maybe some of this had been announced before but I was paying attention? Anyway it mostly makes me think three things.
1) Intriguing... I'm going to have to give them a try but we'll see.
2) Why did the Canongate Myth Series stop :-(
3) They really should have called the company Random Penguin *sighs*
To finish let's have a different branch of the arts- have you seen that they've "found" a new Van Gogh? Stories like this are so incredible but it does seem to be genuine and (even in the tiny news pictures) it looks wonderful. I love the way the trees twist with the clouds and the sky.