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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Topic Started: Mar 27 2009, 08:35 PM (2,800 Views)
ecclesno9
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Just another beautiful shot of him...falls off the chair in gloopyness. Needs to do something with that fringe though! What would his mum think eh?
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LeighS11
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Looks like a great cast... sigh... would so love to see this performance...
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undine
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Its not his fringe that worries me, its his apparent lack of arms. ^o)
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nineroses
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A Doll's House used to be a fixture on O'Level exam syllabi. I don't know if it still is but it would be a bit of a treat.

All I got to see many years ago was acres of RSC Shakespeare in Newcastle. Not that it wasn't good, but there was nothing to drool at.. :-/
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KathyC


Thanks for the picture Cat. It has definitely improved my day. B-)
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LeighS11
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undine
Apr 26 2009, 04:34 PM
Its not his fringe that worries me, its his apparent lack of arms. ^o)
Ack! I just went back and looked at the picture and you're right... he's got no arms! :O Weird angle or photo cropping done badly.
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ecclesno9
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Anyone sending Christopher a "good luck" card through the post?

Don't forget it opens on the 14th May...it's just a thought he might appreciate it!
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Sonic
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There were still some tickets left on the website last night not sure if there's any now but worth a try. I manage to book a circle seat.
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LeighS11
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Cool, Sonic! I'm glad someone from the forum is going.
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Mayzee
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Good going, Sonic. LEt us know how it goes.
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Perfume V
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Awesome. Really looking forward to hearing about this!
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KathyC


Here is the Guardian review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/may/20/a-dolls-house-theatre-review

Michael Billington just has one line about Chris near the end, complimentary I'm glad to say, but spends most of the review saying that he didn't like the way the play has been put in a different context.
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If you really want a top notch (albeit from one of my least favourite newspapers!) read the review given by the Daily Mail by Quentin Letts:

"Kelman is Thomas's political enemy. He has fallen out with the prime minister. He is fighting for his career. Christopher Eccleston may not have intened this but he plays him just like Alan Milburn, complete with Georgie (?) accent and open-mouthed contempt, tongue flicking against the side of his cheeks as he saunters arounnd the stage with menance. Television views will remember Mr Eccleston as the actor who preceded David Tennant as Doctor Who (jolly good he was too). Here he creates a range, feral chancer who melts at the first sign of affection being shown to him"

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Verdict: Ibsen, prophet of sleaze



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KathyC


This is from "The Independent" online:

A Doll's House, Donmar Warehouse, London
(Rated 4/ 5 )
Reviewed by Michael Coveney


This powerful revival by the young film-maker Kfir Yefet of Ibsen's breakthrough play about a doomed marriage, starring the luminescent Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame, has Ffion Hague, wife of the former Conservative Party leader, as its historical adviser. Does that explain why Zinnie Harris has translated her new version from late 19th-century Norway to Edwardian London and shifted the tale of intrigue, fraud and betrayal from the world of finance to that of politics?


It's only a partially successful transposition. And lines like, "I've got him by his testicles," sound distinctly odd, even when uttered by a former time-travelling Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston, full of ire and splutter as Neil Kelman, a Lancastrian politician hastily removed from office after "allegations" and a row with the PM.
In Ibsen, the catastrophe is impelled by a newly appointed bank manager's wife, Nora, being verbally abused by her own husband when the deal she struck to save him in the depths of a nervous breakdown is exposed as a fraud. At the Donmar, Anderson's beautiful, butterfly Nora is a politician's wife – Toby Stephens's magnificently haughty cabinet minister declaring (to huge laughs) that "our staple is trust" – who has worked without him knowing and bought second-hand clothes to help pay off the debt. But she still owes the last payment.

The house Nora and Thomas Vaughan are moving into was once in the possession of the ruined Kelman (the barrister Krogstad in Ibsen). This gives the play an added twist of bitter displacement, though it's not one that serves it all that well; too strenuous.

Stalking the scene is Anton Lesser's devoted Doctor Rank, dying of cancer but maintaining one of those ambiguous domestic triangles Ibsen excelled at. Anderson, meanwhile, is the equal of the most vulnerable, tremulous Noras I've seen, but she's easily the most touchingly innocent, and the most beautiful.

It's worth noting the superb playing of Eccleston and Tara Fitzgerald as his true love, Mrs Lyle (Lynde in Ibsen), in the sub-plot recipe for a slightly more ideal marriage. The play still bristles with hurt, relevance and anger, and didn't really need the political patina. Nice job, though.

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Perfume V
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Good to hear all these nice things being said!
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Sonic
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I'm back from seeing the play this afternoon and it's very good if a little different to the original Ibsen text. But then I think that's been noted in all the reviews. I want to get my hands on this adaptations play text before passing any judgment on it.

Chris is brilliant as a Lancashire politician whose political career has been brought down by newspaper accusations. The subplot mentioned works well to offset the gradual series of events that bring about the destruction of Nora's relationship and her moment of self discovery. It's well acted as you would expect and also considering what is going on in the current UK political situation the play is particularly relevant.

I enjoyed it but I can see why some people are objecting slightly to the alterations in setting, place and main characters jobs. But as I said I'd like to see the play text to compare versions before I make a final decision.
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I meant to say this earlier but I was in fear of being either lynched or flamed. So I might as well tell you all now since there's only a fortnight to go.

Am going to see "A Dolls House" on the 17th June with a very good friend of mine who purchased my ticket as far back as March of this year. Ironically I was in Salford at the time but that's another story entirely why I was in the dirty old town in the first instance.

So if I do meet up with Christopher again, this forum will be the first and exclusively only one to know about it. Nowhere else I promise.

Attached is a little something which I found... :O

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ecclesno9
Jun 2 2009, 07:38 PM
Attached is a little something which I found... :O

Ecclesno9


What a lovely little pic! It's so nice to find out that Edwardian men didn't bother with undershirts! I can live on that for weeks! ;)

I don't think Ecclesno9 url is going to show up in this posting...so just look for her post above and follow it. Nice!

Linda
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KathyC


Why should you be lynched or flamed Ecclesno9? Enjoy the performance and let us know what you thought of it.

I take it you didn't happen to see CE when you were in Salford in March? Probably just as well...I'm sure you wouldn't want him to mistake you for a stalker if he keeps seeing you!!! :rof: (only kidding obviously!)
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Kathy C

I was in my hotel at the time, just across the Mancunnian border and I was fundraising the next morning, so the Hyde Fundraisers were a little shocked to say that I was going to see him again in London. It's worse when people start citing me as his "girlfriend" (as if, I wish!)

For your information, I was flamed and lynched by a well known forum on LiveJournal and consequently I was forced to leave it by moderators who ought to known better than to use detrimental language as "derranged" and "stalker" in a PM to me. I was also accused of "rubbing people's noses" and "that you aren't his best buddy" because I was using the first person to describe my encounters with Christopher. They know who are and I great pitty in their attitude towards fellow fans.

I am, still lucky to have met Christopher, not once but four times, each time was either purely by chance or post show, the last time we met each other was thirty minutes after at the South Bank. I have never once compromise his privacy, or that I would cross that line in future. I used to go to big American fan run conventions until they were stopped because of a single person trying to haunt the star.

My friend has been the victim of stalking so I do know what it's like.

Yes I will give this forum a full review when I come back on the 18th June, that if I can remember it all.

Ecclesno9



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