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Lizzie Whizz Jun 2023 7:46am, 23 Jun 2023 27,781 posts	Quote Pin Lizzie Whizz Looking for good things to take T12 to, not too expensive, south east England! He likes performing (singing/acting) & words.
Sharkie Jun 2023 7:50am, 23 Jun 2023 21,474 posts	Quote 1 pin Sharkie Highly recommend Guys and Dolls at The Bridge - if you’re willing to stand - very like promenading at the Proms - it’s not too spendy. And perfect for teens and twenties. Check out the reviews.
Tom Tom Jun 2023 7:51am, 23 Jun 2023 3,817 posts	Quote Pin Tom Tom Noted, LindsD! Saw The Pillowman at the Duke of York Theatre on Wednesday. Not an easy watch considering the subject matter, but thoroughly absorbing and I really enjoyed it. You do need a dark sense of humour, I think. 1 chap walked out before the end of the first act from the centre of the row in front of me, which prompted a Mexican wave of folk standing to let him through just as Lily Allen was about to launch into a long solo piece of dialogue. She wasn't phased, thankfully. Will admit to being surprised at how good Lily was in it. I've only been aware of her music career and the tabloid stuff before. Paul Kaye and Steve Pemberton were fantastic (but then I am such a fangirl where Steve's concerned, he could probably get away with farting into a telephone directory and flapping the pages with me).
LindsD Jun 2023 8:01am, 23 Jun 2023 62,493 posts	Quote Pin LindsD I like the look of that TomTom. I love Martin McDonagh
Tom Tom Jun 2023 8:05am, 23 Jun 2023 3,818 posts	Quote Pin Tom Tom Would definitely recommend it, I believe it's on until September.
LindsD Jun 2023 8:06am, 23 Jun 2023 62,499 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Thank you. Will take OH
Chrisull Jun 2023 9:35am, 23 Jun 2023 20,389 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Oh heck how have I missed this thread? (probably quite easily since it's been dormant since 2016) I see loads at the theatre, already seen 3 things this year, the last was Godot is a woman, a very meta (but funny) account of an female/non-binary cast trying to get permission from Samuel Beckett's estate to perform "Waiting for Godot" (and failing), because the Beckett estate guards his words that it can only ever be performed by men. Juvenile, funny, pointed, angry all in turns. Was very good. However, I saw "Drive your plow over the bones of the dead" last year, the premiere at Plymouth (it was actually unfinished and one part had to be improvised!!) by Theatre de Complicite, which has just finished touring (sorry), and it was absolutely and utterly magnificent. Kathryn Hunter in the lead role (although she had to pull out of the current season due to ill health? ) and she was amazing, one of those performances you will remember forever, the director explained before hand how her life partner (also part of Complicite, who amazingly I'd seen them both together 30 years previously doing "The Visit") had recently died, and she'd basically quit and then at the last moment had decided to come back and do this. The show is at heart a one person monologue (although an ensemble piece, with all the Complicite tricks, tics and idiosyncracies), I hadn't read the book, a murder mystery in a Polish village, featuring a spectacularly unreliable narrator, with a strong pro vegetarian/animal rights bent, weird William Blakean, astrology and mysticism intertwined, and the ending is an absolute gut puncher. The kind of thing I'd recommend to the book group thread if I had read it (I might yet... McG, you have been warned, unless of course it's been already done). Normally it's Plymouth that gets the stand in actors on Tour (eg when Ruth Wilson did Ibsen at the National and it toured, we didn't get Ruth), but it was intended for Hunter anyone whose seen her, knows she is one of a kind, short, spectacularly gnarled voice, always utterly compelling (she was the villain in the Visit), she was Lear in an all female Lear I've also read? (now that I would have loved to have seen). But anyway astounding. Good Guardian piece on the background to the show here: theguardian.com
HappyG(rrr) Jun 2023 9:37am, 23 Jun 2023 47,003 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) Hardly ever get to the theatre which is weird since my sis is an actor on stage and screen. Last thing I saw was Philip Pullman adaptation La Belle Sauvage at Bridge Theatre on Southbank. Then re-watched the NFT streaming of it at local Odeon cinema, which also worked well. G
LindsD Jun 2023 10:21am, 23 Jun 2023 62,507 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Thanks Chris. I like the sound of both of those. I cam recommend Ocean at the End of the Lane which I think is still touring and back in London in Oct.
Sharkie Jun 2023 10:29am, 23 Jun 2023 21,477 posts	Quote Pin Sharkie West End is usually very expensive, (too dear for us to go much) so it's great to have an excellent regional theatre.