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Post by helen on May 10, 2008 0:31:37 GMT 9.5
We don't often get a lot of big names venturing north of the border, so this is absolutely brilliant. Absoluteley brilliant! That's the understatement of the century! I'm in full squeeing mode, as I've just bought my ticket!
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on May 10, 2008 3:46:29 GMT 9.5
If you two have a fangirly meet-up, you MUST report all the details so I can live vicariously through you!
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Post by callygirl on May 10, 2008 5:57:23 GMT 9.5
But please Manda fans - don't go crazy. Please no insanity in Mirandatia. Not more than we have already. Don't worry - I'm sure we will be able to conduct ourselves with the utmost decorum.
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Post by helen on May 10, 2008 7:05:41 GMT 9.5
If you two have a fangirly meet-up, you MUST report all the details so I can live vicariously through you! Don't worry, sweetie. No detail will be left unreported. I'll try to stay calm and remember everything that happens!
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Post by schaffner15 on May 17, 2008 23:25:00 GMT 9.5
Dear Mirandaites : We may get some chances to see Manda on stage. I hope she will be around for many years to come, and if she is famous there will be a damand for her to do live stage plays in many cities and countries. At some point our day will come. For those who go see her sooner rather than later, please give us a good theater review. We'll all read it/ them.
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Post by helen on May 19, 2008 6:47:46 GMT 9.5
4 days to go!!! Can you tell that I'm slightly excited?!
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Post by helen on May 23, 2008 9:26:38 GMT 9.5
Went to see this tonight with callygirl. I enjoyed it. I'll post more tomorrow.
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Post by callygirl on May 23, 2008 21:07:02 GMT 9.5
Look out for a full run down later tonight - no time to do it right now. ;D ;D Stay tuned Miranda fans!
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Post by biggzy on May 24, 2008 5:06:39 GMT 9.5
If one goes to google news, and enters Miranda's name, there is a nice interview with YORK PRESS, discussing this very event.
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Post by callygirl on May 24, 2008 6:10:18 GMT 9.5
Here is the article in question:
Choreographer and director Jonathan Lunn has collaborated with writers, musicians, actors and five dancers to create Reading Room, a full-length performance piece that considers the connections, disconnections, pacts, secrets and lies that underpin most human actions.
The team of artists in the collaboration includes the late trio of writer and filmmaker Anthony Minghella, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and American writer Raymond Carver; set and lighting designer Peter Mumford; composer Gary Yershon and poet Maura Dooley.
Segments of the show will be narrated by a different actor at each venue. In York, the twice Oscar-nominated Miranda Richardson will be carrying out these duties.
Charles Hutchinson leaps in with the questions in an exclusive interview with the 50-year-old, Southport-born star of Blackadder, Dance With A Stranger, Damage, Tom & Viv, The Comic Strip Presents and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.
How have you come to be taking part in Reading Room? "Jonathan just asked me. We were friends anyway: we hadn't worked before mostly because I'm not a dancer, but this is a lovely chance to part of his work. It's a beautiful choice of writing, the choreography is terrific, the dancers are marvellous and hopefully it will be a thought-provoking evening."
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Were you able to choose where you would perform on the tour? "Yes, I did to an extent get to choose where to do it. For instance, I wasn't down for Stirling, but I thought, Ooh, Stirling, if anything happens, let me know', and it did, so I'm doing it there this week."
And York? Have you performed at York Theatre Royal previously? "Not knowingly!"
Have you done anything in York before? "Not in York, no, but the Theatre Royal is a lovely theatre, I gather."
How have you found the experience of narrating a show? "Initially it seems like a lot less responsibility as I'm not learning lines or dancing, so I have to try to make my voice as mellifluous as possible to stop people slamming their seats and leaving."
How do you prepare for a narrator's role, as opposed to rehearsing for a role in a play? "I decided to watch the rehearsals early on as I wanted things to occur to me, to get a feel for the long pieces. We have tech'ed' the show and we've done run-throughs and you get a sense of the piece from that, but it will be different again with bigger audiences."
How would you describe Reading Room? "As I hate to be labelled or categorised myself, and I'd be imposing that on Jonathan but it's stupid to just say it's physical. It's something unexpected though still accessible, but again that may sound stupid as all dance should be that as it's human. What I can say is that it feels like it's not remote."
How much are you sticking with a single narrator's voice or are you taking on different voices for different characters in this performance about relationships? "There is an argument for both, and the more we run the piece, the more clear it becomes. The Beckett work is such an extraordinary piece and it doesn't need characters because it has its own voice that feels like a character."
Have you done a narrator's role previously? "I've done Peter And The Wolf, so it doesn't feel totally unfamiliar doing this but I've not done it in a dance piece.
"The closest I got to dance was in Orlando with Robert Wilson about ten years ago at the Edinburgh Festival. It was a choreographed piece, where what you're saying is not apparently connected with what you're doing in your movement, but it is. It correlates to that thing of rubbing your stomach while patting your head which I can do."
What movement do you have to do in Reading Room? "I just have to try not to fall over or lose my footing or get lost in the dark."
# Jonathan Lunn Dance Company, with actress Miranda Richardson, in Reading Room, York Theatre Royal, Wednesday and Thursday, 7.30pm. Box office: 01904 623568
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Post by Mandy on May 24, 2008 6:20:29 GMT 9.5
thank you
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Post by helen on May 24, 2008 6:39:17 GMT 9.5
I thought, Ooh, Stirling, if anything happens, let me know', and it did, so I'm doing it there this week." And thank God something happened!
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Post by callygirl on May 24, 2008 6:44:31 GMT 9.5
Yep - I wonder if Miranda is a Scotland fan? Maybe she has been to this area before?
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Post by helen on May 24, 2008 6:48:54 GMT 9.5
She must like the area if she thought "ooh, Stirling!" I wonder how she enjoyed the old Scottish hospitality!
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Post by goddessqueen on Jun 4, 2008 19:13:55 GMT 9.5
The post talk show for fri night has been cancelled. Boo!
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