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Post by jobrodie on Nov 20, 2016 9:50:26 GMT -5
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Post by jobrodie on Nov 10, 2016 9:31:08 GMT -5
This was on television last night and I enjoyed it. Tom has the best lines and the laugh out loud moments. UK folk can see it again next Tuesday at 6.40pm on Film4 Not knowing much about its history I went looking for info and found this interview ' Good lines and great wines' from 2006. Jo
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Post by jobrodie on Nov 8, 2016 9:42:59 GMT -5
I wonder if they might do this as a 'live streamed' performance where one or more cameras are pointed at the stage and the whole thing is beamed magically to a cinema screen, either live or recorded. This has been done for some other performances and I've seen one of them (Frankenstein) and thought it worked very well. As far as I'm aware it's reasonably straightforward technically and can bring in extra revenue - and allows more people to see it of course. However I'm not sure how the actors feel about it. I know that Gemma Arterton wasn't a fan of the idea and here she is speaking about that in 2014, though she may have changed her mind. Gemma Arterton says live theatre should be experienced on stage not screen relays www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/gemma-arterton-says-live-theatre-should-be-experienced-on-stage-not-screen-relays-9398438.htmlThe Travesties actors might not like the idea, for all sorts of reasons - and even if it lets more people see the performance they're not seeing it in quite the right way as being in an audience is all part of the experience. A few years ago there was a workshop where I work, on audiences whose abstract said - "People in audiences act: they talk, clap, heckle, sigh, inhale, exhale, rustle, twitch, tweet, dance, flirt, laugh, whisper, shuffle, cough... in doing so, they interact. There is a structure and dynamic to these responses which is central to the experience of being in a live audience." - and even in a cinema audience I'm not sure the experience is shared in quite the same way when staring at a screen. Anyway it's been lovely to read all the wonderful comments and reviews of the play, even if I do have to wade through some rather eye-opening pornographic spam on Twitter! My 'don't show me smut' settings seem have given up the unequal struggle entirely Jo
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Post by jobrodie on Nov 3, 2016 6:36:27 GMT -5
Oh that's so lovely Marie! I'm glad you caught up with him again and that he remembered you. It would be amazing if he were able to voice one of your characters!
Jo
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 28, 2016 15:41:44 GMT -5
I'm very glad to hear it haha, but I've checked with a couple of other people and they can definitely see it. No idea why my settings on Twitter (which should exclude any sensitive material) let me see this stuff but I could do without it! Might try and encourage ppl to use #TravestiesApollo as the hashtag next year.
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 27, 2016 20:05:40 GMT -5
I've collected together a bunch of tweets from people tweeting about the play. Can I recommend being a bit careful if you're looking at the Twitter hashtag for #Travesties because... how shall I put this... the word has a very different meaning in other languages and some of the posts are 'not safe for work' as they say. Basically there's some fairly explicit content on there and while I'm sure we're all women and men of the world and all that I'd hate anyone to visit it while on a work computer, or on their phone on a packed train etc etc storify.com/jobrodie/travesties-is-a-fanastic-play-at-the-menier-chocol
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 27, 2016 19:52:45 GMT -5
Yippee!!
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 14, 2016 18:39:01 GMT -5
Gosh it's a fun time to be a fan of Tom Hollander! Lots going on. I assume it's also quite a fun time to BE Tom Hollander, I certainly hope so :-) Thanks to Ale Smallbone for highlighting some of these. ReunionThere's a 15m short story by Peter Bradshaw (film reviewer for the Guardian) called Reunion and Tom is reading it, next Friday 21st at 3.45pm on BBC Radio 4. Peter tweeted about it and there was a rather nice response from the person who directed Tom in Cambridge Spies :-) RevolutionThis is a documentary with several people portraying Russian artists; Tom is Kazimir Malevich (voice only). It's having its UK / Ireland premiere on Thursday 10th November and there's a Q&A screening with the director, Margy Kinmonth, at the Curzon Mayfair, from £17.50, more at www.curzoncinemas.com/Booking/mayfair/3532489, other screenings' info at www.curzoncinemas.com/mayfair/film-info/revolution-new-art-for-a-new-worldTravestiesBaz Bamigboye (theatre critic) reports on Tom Stoppard having discussions to transfer the play to London's West End early next year and possibly even Broadway next Autumn. The run at the Menier Chocolate Theatre continues to be solidly sold out and reviewers have absolutely loved it - I get to see it again next week, hooray. Someone has collected together a bunch of these lovely reviews, here fullstoppard.wordpress.com/2016/10/13/press-about-travesties-in-menier-chocolate-factory-hint-tom-hollander-rocks/I've updated the career section of Tom's Wikipedia page, so that there's a slightly more logical structure, and added some of the new bits mentioned here. With Wikipedia it's always possible that someone will come along and revert all one's changes but hopefully not! Jo
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 4, 2016 18:31:24 GMT -5
Woohoo, 5 stars from the excellent and discerning Dominic Cavendish writing for The Telegraph :-D
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 3, 2016 9:38:28 GMT -5
Menier Chocolate factory have just tweeted that there are a few more tickets for tomorrow's performance of Travesties. Note that this is the press night. Also the tickets are for seats in the front row. I can't go as I'm going to something else but I hope someone from the board sees this in time! "**TICKETS JUST RELEASED** for #Travesties tomorrow night! Hurry to grab these final seats! Call the box office 020 73781713 to book yours." www.menierchocolatefactory.com
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Post by jobrodie on Oct 2, 2016 18:41:11 GMT -5
Haha thanks Lintu - I started laughing when I looked at these cos I remembered bits of the play. It's been nice reading all the lovely tweets about it. I've also written a blog post about How to get tickets for something that might be sold out. It's not specifically related to Travesties but might be useful to anyone looking to get tickets for sold out things.
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Post by jobrodie on Sept 26, 2016 16:33:18 GMT -5
Tickets for the premiere of Revolution are on sale: 6.45pm, Thursday 10 November, Curzon cinema Mayfair + Q&A with director Margy Kinmonth. www.curzoncinemas.com/qas/revolutionqandaDon't think Tom would be there of course (as he's in his play until 19th November), but film premieres are always fun. " We are delighted to welcome back director Margy Kinmonth (Hermitage Revealed) for a Q&A at Curzon Mayfair with her latest film. Revolution: New Art for a New World is a bold and exciting feature documentary that encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian Avant-Garde.
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life.
It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin’s Socialist Realism.
Tickets £17.50 / £15.00 for Curzon Members.
Pullman seats £20.50 / £18.00 for Curzon Members.
Thursday 10 November 6.45pm, Mayfair"
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Post by jobrodie on Sept 25, 2016 17:12:38 GMT -5
Well the play is quite amazing. Also fairly bonkers (singing and dancing from all members of the cast, very funny). I am not very familiar with Tom Stoppard's work, other than his (co-written with Marc Norman) screenplay for Shakespeare in Love which has always struck me as a very clever thing. In that the writers use phrases and ideas found in Shakespeare's writings and present them as part of the film's story (see Shakespeare in Love: References to Elizabethan literature). I got a similar sense with Travesties where there are plays within plays, reordered poems (the Tristan Tzara character cuts up poems into a hat, recreating them by pulling bits of paper from the hat) and very amusing word-play. I laughed a lot. I'm sure I'll have missed a lot of allusions though as I'm quite ignorant of the lives of the people mentioned in the play. Tom was fantastic (everyone was fantastic!). It was pleasantly strange seeing him on stage and recognising his face but not quite recognising his voice or mannerisms. Not sure I can really describe it (other than Corky from The Night Manager being a completely different person from Adam Smallbone in Rev.) but it reminded me of the first time I met the identical twin sister of my best friend at university. I was talking to someone who, of course, looked exactly like her sister but she was clearly a different person and it was a slightly odd experience. What a strange thing acting is :) The theatre is gorgeous (never been before) and cosy. You have to clamber through the restaurant and up and down stairs to get to the theatre space. Someone spotted me looking very puzzled wondering where the entrance was and they explained it all to me. Loved the stage design too, I could quite happily live in the on-stage room which doubles as a living room and library. It's all dark painted panelling and nice lighting. You're not allowed to take photos and I didn't want to risk being ejected! Outside at the end of the play someone took a photo of them and their friend meeting Tom, I'm actually in the photo on the opposite side waiting at the bus stop. An unintentional photobomb! I'd have been standing on the same side of the road had I not realised I was at the wrong bus stop (I have no sense of direction). Why yes I have been showing this to all my friends this weekend haha. Jo
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Post by jobrodie on Sept 23, 2016 5:20:04 GMT -5
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Post by jobrodie on Sept 21, 2016 18:20:40 GMT -5
Break a leg Tom! Travesties opens in previews tomorrow, I'm there on Friday and again in November. For anyone not familiar with the phrase 'break a leg' Wikipedia has a helpful more-than-you-wanted-to-know-about-theatrical-superstitions guide here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg. It's sold out I think but see my earlier post in this thread about some strategies for getting tickets to apparently sold-out things if you're after one. Jo
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