Slapnut Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Has anybody seen The Full Monty? I saw it at the Wales Millennium Centre last year and it was dreadful. They basically took the best lines from the film and placed them between shit, unfunny dialogue. Â The lead, who was some guy from Hollyoaks I think, was the most unlikeable character you could imagine, and not like the film where Robert Carlyle was a bit of a twat but you felt for him, he was just an outright bellend with no redeeming characteristics. Terrible accent, too. You couldn't hear a bloody word he was saying half the time. Â The bloke who played Denzel's character was good, but it was as if they cast him purely because his voice sounded exactly the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted March 7, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 7, 2017 One of the best performances by a famous name in recent years was Segio's favourite ever actor, David Suchet, playing Lady Bracknell from the Importance of Being Earnest. Poirot in drag was far better than it had any right to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted March 8, 2017 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 8, 2017 A big name is usually a draw for me when it comes to theatre. We'd probably not have gone to see Skylight if it hadn't had Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan in, for example, and I'd have never sat through No Man's Land last year in Newcastle if it hadn't had McKellen and Stewart in it because I just don't understand Pinter. Sometimes it's the only draw - I'd go to any play if it had Sir Mark Rylance in it, because he's so fucking good you know you're in for a treat whatever the play is. Â Sometimes though, it's just a nice surprise. Lapidus from Lost being in the West End version of 12 Angry Men, or Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves and Wooster. I was going for the play itself in those cases but if it's got people off the telly in it as well, so much the better, usually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted March 8, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 I absolutely loved Jeeves and Wooster In Perfect Nonsense. Genuinely one of my favourite two hours in a theatre ever. I am huge fan of the books, rarely has anything committed to text been so successful in just taking you away from life to somewhere quite pleasant and the play was much the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted March 8, 2017 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 8, 2017 Absolutely agree, it was really well done. Using the 39 Steps approach of lots of characters and only a couple of actors paid off as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted March 8, 2017 Moderators Share Posted March 8, 2017 I did what's probably the pleb thing last month of going to see a play just cos an actor off the telly I like was in it and saw The Dresser, with Reece Shearsmith (and also Ken Stott, and the lady who kept her babies in a drawer in the Brittas Empire). It was fantastic. Â Although Reece is well known for being particularly prickly and a 'doesn't suffer fools' type, and I did become a bit preoccupied with the thought I hadn't switched my phone back off in the interval (or what if I accidentally sat on it and turned it back on?!) and imagining if it had rang during a quiet bit, and he'd have furiously pointed at me and yelled at me with everyone booing as I'd skulked out, unable to watch the League of Gentlemen or Psychoville or Inside Number 9 ever again. Next time I think I'll just leave it in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 I saw Kevin Spacey perform his one man production of Clarence Darrow and not five minutes in, without missing a beat, looked at someone and said "Would you mind turning off your phone please? The one that's lighting up your face. Thank you". Cue a round of applause and someone shrinking in their seat like a cock n balls in winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Coconut Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Your cock and balls have a seat?? You really are a ponce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 One with comfortable junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted March 26, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted March 26, 2017 Just back from the KTB Thrilogy, it was an amazing set of shows. I ended up ordering the book their first show is based on (The Boy Who Kicked Pigs) because of how great it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted April 21, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 21, 2017 (edited) Sasha Reagan's all male version of Mikado tomorrow. Saw her production of Pinafore with a similar cast last year and it was a real hoot, so looking forward to it. G&S engenders itself well to a good dollop of campness. Edited April 21, 2017 by Gus Mears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted April 21, 2017 Awards Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2017 Reduced Shakespeare Company tonight. They count as theatre, right? Anyway, I've been meaning to catch one of their shows for years and years but never got round to it. I think I'm going solo but fuck it. Ice cream at the interval for one it is. Missed out on the other RSC's Nell Gwynne (or was that the Globe?) in Edinburgh this week, though. In theatrical news, they've announced the cast for the new Young Frankenstein show that's opening in Newcastle in August before transferring to London. Ross Noble as Igor. Still more excited by the idea of Mel Brooks living in the North East for a month than the show itself, but should get round to getting tickets sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted April 22, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2017 I got the chance to see Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime. Brilliant, if you can see it when the national tour starts then do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted April 23, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 23, 2017 Sasha Regan absolutely knocked that out of the park yesterday. Superbly directed version of the MIkado, perfectly placed on the correct side of being too camp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugaziuk Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 On 07/03/2017 at 1:26 PM, WyattSheepMask said: Again I'd love to get down to see Network, but getting down to London to make a weekend of it would mean putting my credit card into a Crippler Crossface, it was the same with wanting to see John Goodman when he was over here doing American Buffalo. I was lucky that my wife's birthday fell during The Elephant Man being on at the right time. In fact, living in Hull means you've got to travel at least to Leeds before you to see anything decent, and that's before you even start to mention the "City of Culture" coverup for giving the city centre a very cheap makeover. Â The wife loved Aladdin too, but I didn't think much to it. Lion King is great though. We were both disappointed when we saw Wickid last year. Not a fan of Hull Truck Theatre? Always heard they put pretty decent stuff on. I haven't been to as much theatre as I would like the past couple of years. Best stuff I saw was when Michael Grandage was the artistic director at the Crucible in Sheffield in the early 2000s. He put on some incredible plays: Derek Jacobi in 'Don Carlos' - Ian Mcdiarmid in Edwards Bonds 'Lear' & Kenneth Branagh in 'Richard III'. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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