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« on: 23:45:59, 16-03-2007 » |
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Anyone else interested in going? 5th April is the only performance I can make, as I'll be in London on the date for other reasons.
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« Reply #1 on: 00:46:27, 17-03-2007 » |
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I will investigate, R_T. I would certainly like to go.
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« Reply #2 on: 00:47:04, 17-03-2007 » |
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I've got to check in with my other half, but we're planning to go at some point.
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« Reply #3 on: 11:21:53, 17-03-2007 » |
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The staging might be interesting, as it's being produced by Improbable. They've done some extraordinary theatre work, including THEATRE OF BLOOD at the National last year.
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« Reply #4 on: 18:08:41, 18-03-2007 » |
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Ah...we're going on 21st, sorry!
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« Reply #5 on: 20:07:33, 18-03-2007 » |
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OK, well we can swap notes after you've seen it - I won't reveal anything critical until you have!
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« Reply #6 on: 13:58:13, 21-03-2007 » |
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it's about gandhi, how much fun can it be ?
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« Reply #7 on: 14:47:22, 21-03-2007 » |
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I'm up for the 5th.
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« Reply #8 on: 19:52:35, 21-03-2007 » |
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Anyone interested in going on the 5th - let's please all book our own tickets (or it will be mayhem and no-one will get the ticket they wanted, although they will get a scapegoat to blame).
Nearer the time we can agree on a rendezvous place and time to meet - maybe after the show for a drink?
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« Reply #10 on: 16:58:40, 31-03-2007 » |
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I'm going on the 7th now.
It was the only day that either of us could do, and it means that I can go to the concert in Oxford on the 5th.
Anyone else going then?
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« Reply #11 on: 17:34:04, 03-04-2007 » |
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So, Reiner seems to have disappeared ... Is anyone (including Reiner, who I hope is still willing to drink with r3ok-ers!  ) going on Thursday? Or on Saturday, even? |
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« Reply #13 on: 22:35:56, 11-04-2007 » |
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A nice example of the art of selective quotation going on as well though  Is it possible that the Daily Telegraph quote "ravishingly beautiful staging" loses just a little of its sheen when put back into its context? " There are times in the opera house when the tedium reaches such a peak that I am hit by a vertiginous urge to leap out of my seat, strip off my clothes and run on to the stage screaming like a banshee. ENO's new production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha came close to tipping me over: it contains some of the most mind-numbing, brain-rotting and soul-destroying noise that has ever passed for music....
......Spare me those grade-two scales and arpeggios, those basic chords and sequences that drill corrosively through one's ears and leave no trace behind. Spare me those masturbatory crescendos, those walls of empty noise, those drones that pass for melodies. Spare me the pretension of profundity, and give me some shape and form, some light and shade, some balance of yin and yang. Or shut up.
This musical purgatory comes visualised in a ravishingly beautiful staging by Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott.." |
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« Reply #14 on: 09:40:11, 12-04-2007 » |
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A nice example of the art of selective quotation Indeed, George! Though see http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=708.msg18534#msg18534 for my (and others') views of that review ... |
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