Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey collaboration

[Jessicatmagnificat]

I saw on the BBC text service yesterday that they will be working together to produce "Hamlet" and "The Tempest" to be shown at the Old Vic in London and a NY theatre. I haven't been able to find out anymore but am already excited and priming my Mum so DH and I can get a night away in London to see this!

They should do "mother and baby" performances at theatres like they do at some cinemas. Having a baby should not condemn you to cultural anorexia!

Hello grouchyoscar!
Bink - I'd like to have seen that Faust so much, am v. jealous.
Marina - did you see young K Branagh then in his prime? Or that amazing original Another Country was it with Rupe Everett and Colin Firth? You are prob too young.
Sobernow - I didn't see that nor N Nickleby. Loved it on telly though!
I saw John Malkovich in Burn This which I've completely forgotten other than he was very charismatic.
Also loved the original 'Closer' with lovely neal pearson
Re Kids theatre - has anyone seen Theatre Rites 'It's the Thought That Counts'. Took ds and he thought it was amazing. I felt afterwards that one great play was worth 10 films for him.

Ipanemagirl, I saw him in a not great Much Ado, but also as Henry V at Stratford (rode home in a charabanc full of plastered medical students which was a bit of a contrast).
Was a bit young for Another Country but have fond memories of quite a few fellow drama students being extras on the filmed version a couple of years later - as I had norks of course there was no way I was going to be cast in that
I passed on Closer as there was some hideous problem at work, I cannot believe I did that. Dh took a friend
Ds has greatly enjoyed the Tintin in Tibet at the Barbican and also the Mark Ravenhill panto last year there. He is nearly eight so I think I will up his theatregoing pretty soon. I loved doing a matinee with mum or dad, usually at the Old Vic or at the old RSC in Aldwych.
Babes in arms are fine jessicat, it is when they are old enough to yowl plaintively that they prefer Ninja Turtles that the problems start

marina you saw kb in hV at sford!!!!!!!
SUPER jealous would have loved loved to see that.

Actually I have to confess... I saw K Spacey in the Iceman cometh at the Almeida and it was utterly fab (when he was on stage) but I kept falling asleep! how very embarrassing and disrespectful of me! Have you seen anything of his or with him at the Old Vic?

I like Kevin Spacey and am not one of those Londoners who think it's a cheek of him coming over here, bla bla, but nothing much he's done there has really made me feel, MUST see. So no is the answer
The Iceman Cometh finally got him some deservedly good reviews, didn't it.
No matter how much dh enjoys the theatre he keeps nodding off at the start too...sitting in the dark after a busy day. I think it's a common problem. He even managed it during a deafening performance of Follies at the Festival Hall!
Do wish I had seen Burn This though . I suspect JM is one of those actors you have to see live to really appreciate (KB being another, he NEVER convinces me on film. Toecurler drunk scene in Peter's Friends eg)

I loved all those another country boys and can't remember who was in play and who in film may have to be anal and look it up: Oh, Rupe was in the original 1981 play. Then KB, CF and DDLewis all part of cast at some time. Then film had RE and CF.

Marina - Peter's Friends.... I saw it about five years ago and it made me want to weep. It was so cozy it was mawkish wasn't it?

ahh how young how young?
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Mark Rylance huh? Cripes, not as uncultured as I thought!

It was fantastic it really was. My head of English at high scholl demanded that this snot nosed 3rd former be allowed on the upper sixth theatre trip. I assumed Shakespeare plays would be done in the style of Blackadder 2, so mad pj's was amazing for me.

Saw Charles Dance in Coriolanus at Stratford but I don't think my head/heart was in it (16, head full of loose change tbh) Wanted to see Steven Berkoff in Richard III at Leeds playhouse a few years back but...I had no one to go with

I will improve my cultural endeavours

head/heart wasn't in it, sorry

I saw that Coriolanus too grouchy. It's not a play I'm desperate to see again, I have to say - CD was good though. He's got the right sort of hatchet face for that role!

Not a play they do often is it tho.

I thought Volumnia was just ace tho

I can't believe how young they look.

But also I'm finding it hard to adjust to how quickly everyone is aging suddenly it seems including me!!

I mean, Mathew Macfadyean (sp?) suddenly looks very old and not as dashing as

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and also he says this speech way too quickly doesn't he? Any directorial input here Marina? I guess he's gabbling because of uncontrolled libido but I dunno - slow down a little mate!

Right listen up all you people who ignored, er, didn't spot my post recommending Faust, in perfectly good time for you all to have got to see it

Book NOW for the West Yorkshire Playhouse's transfer to the Duchess Theatre for The Hound of the Baskervilles . We're doing a Sat mat in May, which is time enough I think for me to make sure ds & dd know the story.

You have been telt (as bossy people say in Scotland).

Now dh and ds might do that one together
Dh being a Conan Doyle fan and me usually doing the theatre trips
Thanks bink
Is this the right thread to admit I am trying to persuade dh to take me to see Boeing Boeing for the 20th anniversary of our first date? Maybe not

depends on your motives Marina - there mightn't be any actor in Boeing Boeing who could possibly secretly appeal or anything, could there?

The other thing I keep meaning to recommend is the James Turrell installation in W11 , which finishes at the end of May - though that may have less general appeal (the BinkFamily having a particular fondness for spacey stuff).

Oh rats, rumbled
Ipanemagirl and grouchyoscar might like it too though
Have you been to the Curve in the Barbican yet then bink - NQC's two boys loved that as well