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Posted 03 August 2009 - 03:56 PM

Just a quick mention....it is sooo nice to have the forum back! Noticed that there are a few more of the cast announced for the Donmar Production.
http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/pl105cast.html

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#2 Lynette

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Posted 03 August 2009 - 08:55 PM

QUOTE(Latecomer @ Aug 3 2009, 04:56 PM)

Just a quick mention....it is sooo nice to have the forum back! Noticed that there are a few more of the cast announced for the Donmar Production.
http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/pl105cast.html

Kate Fleetwood - lovely. I booked anyway, no clue what it is about.

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 09:05 AM

QUOTE(Lynette @ Aug 3 2009, 09:55 PM)

Kate Fleetwood - lovely. I booked anyway, no clue what it is about.

I saw the RSC production of it by John Barton. I have no clue what it is about either.

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 10:28 AM

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#5 Jan Brock

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 10:40 AM

QUOTE(Lynette @ Aug 4 2009, 11:28 AM)

It had Miles Anderson in it - I bet hardly anyone can remember him, but for a very brief time he was an actor of such influence at the RSC that he was even mentioned as a possible future Director of the organisation. These days you only see him in Sun Hill police station and similar locations.

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 04:21 PM

Miles has certainly been a prolific TV actor for as long as I remember so much so that we rarely see him on stage these days and he has a nice niche of playing Army commanding officers.

I wonder if the RSC would ever have an actor as the Artistic Director, it would be doubtful that it would be a leading actor as they would surely not want to get bogged down in all the admin side and to direct and star in major plays would be very hard although Olivier did a great job at the NT but they did have to bring Peter Hall in eventually when his health began to decline. You might see a fairly successful actor who maybe has turned increasingly to directing maybe one day getting the job but actor artistic directors probably prefer less high profile and shorter stint roles that a regional theatre can offer and not having the RSC's confines mainly to Shakespeare's body of work.

Perhaps the nearest we have had is Greg Doran -Antony Sher axis of a great director and great classical actor who happened to be an item and thus if Greg had got the artistic director's role then maybe Anthony would have directed some plays and led the company more often. But I'm sure that they have said that working together too often is not a good thing as issues can be taken home and if Greg did become Artistic Director in time then I doubt we would see Sir Antony in a huge amount of plays there apart from maybe his King Lear which is overdue.

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 04:30 PM

Greg Doran is also an actor I believe. Sam West is a good example of actor /director/artistic director, no? Mark Rylance at the Globe acted and led the whole shebang. Julia Mckenzie on the musical theatre side, brill actress and also directed I think. Simon Mc Burney acts and directs very well IMO, leads the Compicite of course. And then there's Clint Eastwood in the film industry, example par excellence of actor/director skills. So having an actor as the leader of one of our great theatre companies seems ok to me. Then on the other hand, we have brilliant directors who do not and have never acted.....there isn't a book of rules is there?

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 10:07 PM

Holy shizzle! Rupert Evans, Kate Fleetwood, and Dominic West?! I am possibly on the verge of exploding a little. Y'all have been warned!

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Posted 05 August 2009 - 06:17 AM

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Ian McDiarmid was co-Director of the Almeida for a long time very successfully.

Let's hope Sher's "Lear" is not just overdue but cancelled.

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Posted 05 August 2009 - 12:28 PM

QUOTE(Weez @ Aug 4 2009, 11:07 PM)

Holy shizzle! Rupert Evans, Kate Fleetwood, and Dominic West?! I am possibly on the verge of exploding a little. Y'all have been warned!

Ohh Kate Fleetwood terrified me in that Macbeth the other year, i'll have to hope she's not playing a scary character as there's no where to hide at the Donmar. This could be great.