| Aug. 20th, 2007 @ 09:17 pm The dubious pleasure of my company |
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August isn't over yet (not that you'd know it from the weather) and September's theatre trips are already booked, but already I'm looking ahead to what I'd like to go see in October. I'm hoping to have a couple of weeks off work so with any luck will go and see more shows than usual (I know, 'cause normally my theatre trips are so rare, aren't they?) So if anyone's interested in any of the following, let me know and maybe we can go together.
Dealer's Choice at the Menier Chocolate Factory is a comedy drama by Patrick Marber, best known for writing Closer. It's also, like Equus, one of the plays I workshopped for my directing course at University. Unlike Equus, my attempt at it went down like a lead balloon, but that doesn't stop me wanting to see this revival. It's about a poker game in the basement of a restaurant and stars Roger Lloyd Pack (Barty Crouch Sr to the Potter fans) and Samuel Barnett from The History Boys (sorry, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) onigokko.)
There's also Swimming With Sharks starring Christian Slater at the Vaudeville; I'm not sure why but I've never got round to seeing the film it's based on. Slater plays the role Dame Kevin Spacey played in the film. Then there's Macbeth at the Gielgud starring Patrick Stewart and Kate "two years above me at Exeter and I've been in a play with her" Fleetwood. Actually vanessaw is already due to come with me to this, but she's been warned that if she says "starring Jean-Luc Picard" one more time she's not welcome any more. I'm not having her shout out "Look behind you Mr Macbeth, I think she's a Borg!"
There's a touring production of Abigail's Party coming to Greenwich from the 16th to the 20th of October; Dave C might come to that but he might not. Who can tell? I also might be interested in Parade, the musical coming to the Donmar, and I haven't given up on Fiddler on the Roof either. Oh and The 39 Steps is meant to be very funny, although it sounds a bit similar to The Hound of the Baskervilles that I saw a couple of months ago. But then there's always Glengarry Glenn Ross at the Apollo...
Any takers? |
