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[armadillo]

Along with the vendettas against the Guardian theatre critics and the NT. It must be difficult to keep up.

[Boob]

I wouldn't necessarily call Michael Pennington a "big name", but in Peter Hall's production of Filumena at the Picadilly, I very clearly remember him drying completely and, with an air of desperation, staring intently at Judi Dench for help.  Dench, in turn, merely smiled back and crossed her arms.  I think he had to totter towards the wings for a prompt.

[Lynette]

Sorry to have to report that he was fluffing all over the place the other night in Coriolanus. At times I was holding my breath because the action so depended on what he was about to say or mumble and even at the end when he makes an important last statement on C's mother, he fluffed it. What is going on?

[Jenny_tyr]

Sorry to have to report that he was fluffing all over the place the other night in Coriolanus. At times I was holding my breath because the action so depended on what he was about to say or mumble and even at the end when he makes an important last statement on C's mother, he fluffed it. What is going on?

What is going on, indeed. And I thought it was safe to get tickets for the 30th as I figured he would have it sorted by then, but if he's still struggling almost a month after the first preview and about two weeks after opening night, it doesn't look likely that he'll manage it next week either. Pity, I was really looking forward to this production  

//Jenny

[Jan Brock]

Jan, are you maligned by the RSC?  You seem to have some sort of vendetta ...

Far from it, but as I give a disproportionate amount of money to them I feel I have a right to comment when they don't seem to be using it in the most professional way - read the other posts in this thread from much nicer people than me (eg. Lynette).

[Jan Brock]

Along with the vendettas against the Guardian theatre critics and the NT. It must be difficult to keep up.

Just to correct you, my vendetta is against Michael Billigton NOT Guardian theatre critics in general (which would be "pointless and reductive" as I'm learning to say), and I don't have a vendetta against NT at all, I am just bored with the Hytner regime and would rather have someone else running the place.