Theatre

An archive of blog entries about plays and theatre production.

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting (or possibly reclining) Tennant (from Anna): Hamlet

31 July 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Anna's reclining Tennant

Who’s this coming unto the breach, dear friends? Why it is Anna, and with her comes David Tennant reclining. An excellent first entry! Well done.

With that, the tables look a little longer than before. Rosby is still in the lead with five entries, Persephone at four. Poly with three and a half, Toby on three entries and Scott on two entries. But now here’s Anna at one and a half for currency, and, erm, Marie with one because I’d forgotten hers. And Rullsenberg’s. Oopsy. Careless Rob.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has also changed subtly. Toby and Marie are now joint top with six captions to their names, Persephone has five captions to her credit, Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon both have three captions and Poly and Stu_N are on one each.

Given that I’m on holiday for a fortnight, starting tomorrow, that should give you all plenty of hunting time for new pictures – as well as time to come up with WAA captions. Good luck!

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery in due course (ie when I’m back from my holiday).

Theatre reviews

Review: Under the Blue Sky

30 July 2008 Natalia Romanova 4 Comments

Where: Duke of York’s Theatre, St Martin’s Lane, London

When: 7.45pm Mondays-Saturdays, 3pm matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays. Runs for 10 weeks from the 15th July 2008

How long: One and half hours without interval

How much: £15-£47.50 (includes £1 restoration levy)

Tickets from: 0870 060 6623 (+£3), Ticketmaster (+£3) or www.theambassadors.com (-£1.50/ticket on top three price bands)

Yes, I’m back. It’s me, “Easily swayed into going to the theatre by famous TV casts” woman. How you doing?

This time, I went to see Catherine Tate (Doctor Who, The Catherine Tate Show), Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd) and Francesca Annis (Between The Lines, Dune and Krull – she’s been in better stuff, too, but the last two amused me) in some sort of play or something about teachers behaving badly.

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Wednesday’s murderous puffins news

30 July 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

  • John Barrowman and Naoko Mori sing “The Last NIght of the World” at Comic-Con
  • Twist for Christmas special? (spoiler alert)

Film

  • Jack White and Alicia Keys writing the Quantum of Solace theme
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer
  • Marvin the Martian being developed into a feature
  • Johnny Depp to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland?
  • Guillermo del Toro to produce remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Art

  • Damien Hirst auction to fetch more than £65m

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Today’s Joanna Page: Billy Liar

21 July 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

In a return to its roots, Today’s Joanna Page eschews the excitement of the review and the intellectual delight of the polemic in favour of pure pictures, since it’s time for the 2004 touring production of Billy Liar, which I obviously didn’t see (even though it began its run at Bromley’s Churchill theatre).

I can’t even comment on the story, since although I’ve seen the movie version, it was so long go, all I can remember are about three images from the whole thing. And I haven’t seen the TV series. Or read the book.

Oh dear.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant: Hamlet (from Poly)

21 July 2008 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

David Tennant rehearsing Hamlet

Today’s Sitting Tennant, is reassuringly fresh and up to the minute, since its from rehearsals of Hamlet. I don’t know whether that warrants bonus points. Probably, particularly since it has Patrick Stewart looming in the background.

That puts Rosby in the lead with five entries, Persephone at four. Poly with three and a half, and Scott and Toby with two entries each.

On the witty and amusing captions front, Marie and Toby are now equal top with five captions each, with Persephone on four, Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon on two and Poly on one.

Feel free to suggest one for DT’s skull tossing above.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery in due course.