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Post by kygal on Feb 28, 2014 11:41:12 GMT
Glad you get to go Frannie!
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Post by Rachel on Feb 28, 2014 13:27:53 GMT
Frannie, so glad you and Y(O)B can still go. I share you annoynace/pain with the situation. It is so, so, easy when booking things online to get the date/time mixed up. I once booked a flight I could have sworn was scheduled to leave at 11:00 a.m. only to discover when I got the ticket it was 11:00 p.m.!
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Post by kygal on Mar 1, 2014 12:31:34 GMT
LOL Rachel. I am sure it wasn't funny at the time.
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Post by francesca on Apr 15, 2014 18:18:06 GMT
A while ago , I posted about the National Theatre film of the Live performance of its production of 'The Queen'.
Yesterday M(o)B and I were lucky to get Tickets for the 2nd showing of 'Othello' starring the wonderful Adrian Lester as the Moor and an equally towering Rory Kinnear as Iago.
Set in modern times and in an army base somewhere hot, its themes of racism, age differences and jealousy are as relevant and powerful today as when the play was written.
I met the tear-filled eyes of other people in the aisles afterwards and repairing our faces in the 'ladies', smiling ruefully at each other.
We were not ashamed to be moved by this performance.
Just had to say how thrilled I am that Rory Kinnear got a Best Actor Olivier for his Iago. Truly well deserved . |
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Post by Rachel on Oct 28, 2016 20:41:59 GMT
Well it wasn't live, but hubby and I went to see the NT broadcast of Frankenstein last night. Like Midoro, we saw the version with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Monster and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein. It was tremendous! The acting, the sets, the direction, everything. The wail in the Monster's voice after Victor accuses him of being a monster - "I am what you made me" - chilling. What's so hard to believe is that this story was written in the early 1800's. It has held up amazingly well. Hubby made an interesting remark as we drove home. He said he couldn't say he enjoyed it since it was sad and basically about the nature of evil. But it was powerful and maybe drama has to be about evil to be that powerful. So happy we got to see it.
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Post by kygal on Oct 29, 2016 11:48:34 GMT
Sounds like a great time. I would enjoy seeing it especially this time of year. I saw Dracula on stage once. Surprising good.
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Post by kissmekate on Nov 2, 2016 10:24:01 GMT
That sounds fantastic, Rachel!
Yes, Frankenstein is basically a sad story (much more so than it is a scary gothic tale). I also loved the movie with Robert de Niro as the monster.
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Post by Rachel on Nov 3, 2016 0:55:14 GMT
I'm not familiar with that movie, I'll have to check it out.
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Post by shopgirl152 on Jan 18, 2017 21:11:03 GMT
The only play I saw in the cinema in The Hague (The Netherlands) was The Audience. Not because of Helen Mirren, but Nathaniel Parker, my other favorite actor was in it. I saw the play in London and when I got the chance to see it again in the cinema, I didn't hesitate even if Nat was only in the play for 10/15 minutes. In 2 weeks time I will be in London to see This House, his latest play. That is also under the banner National Theatre.
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Post by midoro on Mar 24, 2018 18:33:53 GMT
Saw Shakespeare´s "Julius Caesar" live at my cinema recently, a production from London´s (new?) Bridge Theatre, with David Calder (Caesar), Ben Whishaw (Brutus), Michelle Farley (Cassius), David Morrissey (Mark Antony) and many more. Great production, though partly loud (civil war with gunshots and lights), and great actors, esp. MF and DM! Part of the visitors surrounded the stage in the middle to play "the people", and there was rock music at the beginning.
In the US (East coast) they will show "Frankenstein" again, and "Hamlet" with Benedict Cumberbatch will also be re-shown at cinemas (don´t know which though).
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Post by kygal on Mar 25, 2018 13:03:01 GMT
That sounds great! Thanks for the info Midoro.
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Post by midoro on Apr 21, 2018 10:33:05 GMT
NTL will repeat Hamlet (with Benedict Cumberbatch), Frankenstein (with him and Jonny Lee Miller) and show King Lear (with Ian McKellen) and The Madness of King George (with Mark Gatiss) in autumn. Venues still to be announced!
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Post by midoro on Sept 29, 2018 14:17:08 GMT
Saw King Lear at one of our English cinemas recently, or rather the first part of it, as I was so tired then that I went home before the nearly 4 hours were finished. Ian McKellen was great of course, and I also liked Sinead Cusack as the "Duchess" of Kent.
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Post by kygal on Sept 29, 2018 16:07:22 GMT
 , 4 hours. I would probably be asleep in my seat. Great cast. |
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Post by Rachel on Oct 2, 2018 16:43:26 GMT
I saw King Lear last week - it was fantastic and, yes, a bit long. Ian Mckellen was wonderful. I have read that this play is to his last public performance. Not sure if that means he may still do a movie or two or if he's totally retiring but I"m glad I had the chance to see him in this. Lear is one play I'm not that familiar with so it was totally new experience for me. One thing about Shakespeare that I find mind-blowing is that you sit there and the actor will mouth some cliche and you will suddenly realize that line, which YOU think of as a cliche, was written 500 years ago. The impact Shakespeare had on the English language is immense.
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