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« Reply #30 on: 17:38:55, 12-09-2008 »
The Faith Healer is rather elusive; Friel's masterpiece (IMHO and all that) is Translations, not least the wonderful love scene (end of Act 2??) where the local girl and the soldier are saying the same words to each other but unaware of the fact because of the convention that has been established whereby when a British character speaks, his English represents actual English, but the 'English' spoken by the Irish characters actually represents Gaelic.

Could we maybe split t-p's and all subsequent Irish-theatre-related posts into a different thread, though? Wink
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« Reply #31 on: 17:43:58, 12-09-2008 »
Yes, Ted, I remember now.    The speech about the vicar and the schoolboy is well placed by Hampton early in Act 1, sc iii.     Braham arrives and takes-the-stage- for the next half hour.   I played him as a confident cad, on his entrance, by taking in the company,  "I hope I've come to the right place" with a 180 degree look of disdain.    The shock comments about the scout do instantly lower the temperature with the audience but still have the ring of a charming cad.   I didn't hang around and moved on quickly until they realised that Braham wasn't a cad, but a downright shit.   After all, he has to have a degree of charm to seduce Celia, under the gaze of Philip!    
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« Reply #32 on: 18:01:51, 12-09-2008 »
 Yes Stanley I saw Charles Gray play the part I guess a little differently to you since his Barham was a shit from beginning to end. Must say I always liked watching the supercilious Mr Gray.
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« Reply #33 on: 18:54:57, 12-09-2008 »
Braham is a gift of a role, Ted.   You hold court for half-an-hour and finish at the end of Act 1.   Charles was always content to have a bottle of whisky and a young man in the offing.   I used to retreat to the compliments of the Starlight Cinema, next door, and see all the Hollywood oldies.  I'd nip out for the curtain call and return to the kino.  Such happy memories, too, for 21 months.
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« Reply #34 on: 22:35:37, 12-09-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 17:38:55, 12-09-2008

Could we maybe split t-p's and all subsequent Irish-theatre-related posts into a different thread, though? Wink

Mr Barratt will be along in a mo' to recommend THE PILLOWMAN,  I fancy Wink  A recommendation I'd endorse, having read it on his suggestion Smiley
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« Reply #35 on: 00:07:20, 13-09-2008 »
Just a brief note to announce that Brecht is still very much alive and kicking straight in the guts in Dundee: the Rep's version of Mother Courage well up to their normal exalted standards.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/featurestheatre/display.var.2445150.0.Mother_Courage_And_Her_Children_Dundee_Rep.php
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« Reply #36 on: 00:11:26, 13-09-2008 »
Good news, Ron. There was also a truly excellent Good Soul of Szechuan in London earlier this year, at the Young Vic (directed by Richard Jones).

However, this review, which I just came upon now while googling to check I'd got the title right (they used a new translation which substitued 'Soul' for 'Person'), hardly gives hope regarding the British attitude to European theatre's more politically-aware manifestations.
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« Reply #37 on: 01:05:16, 13-09-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 00:11:26, 13-09-2008

However, this review, which I just came upon now while googling to check I'd got the title right (they used a new translation which substitued 'Soul' for 'Person'), hardly gives hope regarding the British attitude to European theatre's more politically-aware manifestations.

Ah yes - a lady whose surname rhymes with "trap" by no mere happenstance Sad

An even more talentless twonk in the self-same journal felt disposed to foisting his witless views on readers - presumably to justify freeloading his way into the event with the rest of the Euston Group Gliterati?    Shocked  Shocked

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/may/18/politicaltheatre.theatre

I'm surprised Timothy Garbage-Trash didn't write a review too - it would be like playing "Neocon Housey-Housey"  Sad
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« Reply #38 on: 02:40:57, 13-09-2008 »
... More 'journalistic' gems from Old young Nick. The young whippersnapper obviously knows everything about everything. In fact, everything he does not know could be written on the back of a postage stamp ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/nickcohen

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« Reply #39 on: 12:00:46, 22-09-2008 »
Good news that the Donmar plan staging Athol Fugard's DIMETOS in a new production - with one of my favourite British actors, Jonathan Pryce:

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/21812/pryce-to-star-in-donmar-revival-of-dimetos
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« Reply #40 on: 21:58:08, 10-10-2008 »
I've mentioned before that Scottish Theatre is a different animal to that South of the Border, and in the last week and a bit have seen two stunning examples of it, both of which will be briefly seen in England. The National Theatre of Scotland is not a building, or even a company, but a commissioning and funding body that cooperates with existing theatres and production companies to create work that can be seen in various locations. Last week, the new Catherine Wheels production of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes opened in Dundee, and I caught the first night: aimed at audiences of nine upwards, it achieves miracles in staging a book that ought to be unstageable. Very physical, brilliant effects, audience spellbound. Will play the Lowry later this month - well worth catching.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/oct/04/theatre7
http://tvision.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=206&action=details&show=L1078505805

Tonight's offering was Fleeto, by polymath Paddy Cuneen (MD of the Donmar Company amongst other things) a re-vision of the later books of the Iliad translated into the world of Glasgow gang culture, but presented in a style related to Greek drama, and cast in blank verse, into which Glesgae swearwords fit surprisingly easily. Physical and intellectual theatre, its shortish, single-act span is electrifying and harrowing, with four stunning performances. It visits The Nave in Islington next weekend: perhaps not for the faint hearted, it nevertheless shows just how relevant and powerful theatre can be when it takes on burning issues. Avidly recommended for those who love strong theatre.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/scotland/?p=487
http://www.remotegoat.co.uk/event_view.php?uid=57506
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