Landscape with Weapon - Reviews (possible spoilers)

2007 production at National Theatre

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Postby f_d_p » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:16 pm

Glad you all had a brilliant time when you went! And you saw Michelle Gomez and Jack Davenport...excellent :D

I can't wait to go again now...Julian welling up sounds so sweet!
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Postby Baggiebird » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:20 pm

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Postby curlybeach » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:26 pm

omg, Baggie - that is a beyootiful photograph - Jules looks gorgeous!!

Glad everyone is having fun at the show - I'm not jealous in the slightest
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Postby goshandcrikey » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:26 pm

thanks for the photo baggie how do I post mine I really am a computer idiot :oops: [/url]
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Postby faeriequeen » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:29 pm

Baggiebird wrote:Ok guys this is my JRT piccy


http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j25/b ... 240003.jpg



Oh my he looks simply delectable there! I think the hair looks particularly fine! I would say I'm jealous but I've got my own yummy photo too! :P

Also, I swear that zip-up cardi is the one Mac wears all the time in GW?
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Postby Baggiebird » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:30 pm

G&C I can post yours if you like as I have it on my photobucket account
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Postby goshandcrikey » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:31 pm

yes please baggie and yes it does look like black top from GW
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Postby Baggiebird » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:33 pm

FQ I think your right there about the zippy top. Anyhow here is G&C with a very cheeky looking JRT


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Postby lucie » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:35 pm

ah great stories, great picture, please post more and more pictures.
And next time you see Julian, tell him that we cant go to London and see this play, so he need to get to some major movie - just for us :roll: (after the holidays of course which he really deserves)

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Edit: Just saw your picture - so cute you both :lol:
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Postby goshandcrikey » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:36 pm

thank you for taking that for me he does look cheeky doesn't he :D

was wondering what to put in that frame that the X Mr. G&C was in :wink:
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Postby faeriequeen » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:36 pm

Baggiebird wrote:FQ I think your right there about the zippy top. Anyhow here is G&C with a very cheeky looking JRT


http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j25/b ... 240004.jpg


Ooh that certainly is a very cheeky face! Hee!

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Postby Baggiebird » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:40 pm

My friend at work said he was looking very cheeky in that photo...but that was the third time in asking as G&C's camera mysteriously started to play up
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Postby goshandcrikey » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:43 pm

Very strangely the camera was working by the time I got home :wink:

Did get to pose 3 times and got 3 hugs with him though :roll:
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Postby Baggiebird » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:53 pm

I think that's why he has that cheeky grin coz he sussed you out :D
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Postby ch1ch1 » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:18 pm

Lovely photos, girls! :D
Great technique, goshandcrikey - one I've actually used myself! *tongue firmly in cheek * :wink:

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Postby xpingux » Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:23 pm

Ooh lovely pictures :)
Glad you had a good time!
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Postby Eliza » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:35 pm

Incredibly beautiful photographs! Lovely, lovely. Congratulations!

I would like to ask you Ducatilady, or the others who where there last time, that how did you exactly organize this meeting with Julian? Did you ask the man himself, like did you send him some written message or something, or did you ask some theatre personnel to help you? Just interested. But how nice of him to come outside to meet you! I'm sure he likes to see that he is being loved, at least as long as this fan-thing dosn't become too weird or obsessive.

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Postby faeriequeen » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:45 am

faeriequeen wrote:
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grenniespex wrote:Its so exciting all the really fab actors and other important bods who have come to see this play...

Compiling a list so far we seem to have

Bill Nighy
Michelle Gomez
Jack Davenport
Andrew Lincoln
Helen Mirren
'Bernie' from Notting Hill (! - embarrasing that I can't remember his full name)

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'Bernie' is the wonderful Hugh Bonneville, currently starring on BBC4 in Diary of a Nobody.


We can add Ralph Fiennes, Tom Stoppard and Anna Maxwell-Martin to that list according to this review.

Can't wait to see all these photos that you lot took!


Ooh, and someone on the IMDb boards saw Daniel Craig when they went. I think it's really cool how they both support each other still. :D

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Postby f_d_p » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:12 pm

Lovely photos baggie and g&c! :D
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Postby f_d_p » Wed May 16, 2007 2:35 pm

Okay so here's my review of LWW. It's being published in our college magazine next week. I must admit, I did take 'the stuff of genius' bit from a different review...but the rest of it is my opinion. :D


With a cast that boasts CV’s with the likes of Green Wing, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Brittas Empire, Life On Mars and Tomorrow Never Dies on them, this play was doing something right before the first performance. Joe Penhall’s play about the arms industry captures the genuine fear, triumph and decline of its characters, at the same time as trying to answer some of the most difficult questions ever put to the government.

Tom Hollander gives an energetic yet heartfelt performance as Ned, the brains behind a new military technology that could revolutionise modern conflict. His portrayal of the character is initially timid, awkward, but skilled in his field, however Ned quickly loses his cool and starts to falter, as he finds out what the weapon could really do, and his brother discovers what he is up to. Ned’s dentist brother Dan is superbly played by Green Wing’s Julian Rhind-Tutt (to me, giving the performance of his career) using his comic-timing and natural expression to make the longest whinge about his wife and kids the stuff of genius. Those who have seen Jason Watkins in all his glory will know that he’s an incredibly versatile actor. As Brooks, a head in the Ministry of Defence, he’s no different. He gives an eerie performance alongside Pippa Haywood, (also from Green Wing, playing Ross) the two people who try to get Ned to work with them in the weapons industry. Both of them have the right amount of sinister friendliness and are chilling to the bone trying to get results from a man almost incapable of answering the door to his own brother.

The chemistry between Hollander and Rhind-Tutt leads the first half into a messy and comical food fight on top of a small table, ending with takeaway curry getting thrown and kicked about the stage (at some points, even onto the first few rows of the audience). This is one of the many memorable scenes in one of the most interesting political plays there has been.

Initially this play is a debate, and everyone knows how people love a debate. Joe Penhall’s script is full of sharp wit and comical interregation, but behind all of that is a monster of an issue waiting for a solution.

Landscape With Weapon is at the Cottesloe, National Theatre until July 3rd.
To book, visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
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