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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 22h

Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic is a peculiar play that feels like it should have either had 11 different actors playing MPM across its 11 scenes or like, two, but having five with two of them famous and getting more scenes just leaves it feeling quite wonky www.timeout.com/london/news/...

Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ starring Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough at the Old Vic

The two women head up the cast of Tracy Letts’s dizzying tale of one woman’s life told in 11 scenes

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t really get what ‘Tilly Norwood’ is actually supposed to do, like what is a scenario in which it would be deployed in a film, let alone a play

The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 3d

Demands for performers to be robustly protected from the "Wild West" of artificial intelligence have been made by both Equity and the Society of London Theatre, following the creation of AI Hollywood actor Tilly Norwood 👇

AI actor prompts calls for protection from 'Wild West' of tech

Demands for performers to be protected from artificial intelligence have been made by Equity and SOLT, following the creation of AI actor Tilly Norwood

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 4d

despite a good deal of admiration etc I’ve never really *connected* with a Beatles album before but have for whatever reason been absolutely rinsing Abbey Road this week

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 6d

the new NT Hamlet is enjoyably scappy but a bit all over the shop and kind of makes me feel nostalgic for the billions of meticulously crafted blockbuster Hamlets we got last decade that seem to have suddenly dried up www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Hamlet, National Theatre review: Hiran Abeysekera is very entertaining as a fully mad prince in the National Theatre’s scrappy indie ‘Hamlet’

Is the era of the big celebrity Hamlet over? I mean, probably not: the play is 400 years old, and some seasonal variation is to be expected. Nonetheless, after

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 7d

yet again vindication of my theory that there’s no need to go to Broadway because everything good comes over here anyway www.timeout.com/london/news/...

The funniest Broadway comedy of the decade is heading to London’s West End this Christmas

Cole Escola’s outrageous historical comedy ‘Oh, Mary!’ is coming our way and not before time

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 7d

yeah – in isolation I really enjoyed the scene where he could hear all of Polonius’s asides, but what was it supposed to actually tell us (I was briefly toying w idea it’s meant to be like R&G are Dead except it’s Hamlet who realises he’s trapped in Hamlet… but no)

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 7d

it can work but depends what flavour of madness – my fave Hamlet still the batshit Michael Sheen one where he’d become unable to distinguish what was real or not, and I really enjoyed the Globe’s psychopath Hamlet of a couple of years back. This was a bit like 'crazy guy!' (but quite entertaining)

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 7d

to be fair I do usually have a weird reaction to the summer > autumn shift but after that I’m a big fan, number one season (though kid’ rampant delight in Halloween definitely part of it)

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 7d

Autumn’s nice what did it ever do to hurt you? Too much mist? Too much mellow fruitfulness?

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 8d

(it looks like it’s meant to be a 'fun' take so fair enough etc)

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 8d

new NT hamlet is 2hr 45min! pathetic!

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 8d

I mean I'm a bit hazy on why it wouldn’t simply be them running this glorious future-proofed club-slash-arts centre when it reemerges, but I can see why you’d deem it the end of an era

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 8d

Sad news about Corsica Studios, which is I believe literally the only club I have been to in the last ten years (but more than once in the last ten years I’ll have you know!), although can’t help but be reasonably optimistic about their actual statement

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 9d

happy quarter century, DiS, weird to think I was quite heavily involved in years nine to 16 of this

Drowned in Sound | Newsletter & Podcast & Community @drownedinsound.org · 9d

We’re 25 today. Which artists have we turned you onto over the years?

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 9d

oh yeah for sure. And I do think that has led to him taking on a massive volume of work - five shows in 18 months is a lot! - that does a lot to feed a very meme/web driven public obsession with him (that dare I say only really kicked into gear when the Americans properly noticed him)

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote a piece on the observable phenomenon of extreme Jamie Lloyd cynicism and came to some very clever and insightful conclusions that you will have to click on the article to read

The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 9d

‘Why can’t we just be happy for Jamie Lloyd?’ asks Andrzej Lukowski 👇

Andrzej Lukowski on Jamie Lloyd's cynics

Jamie Lloyd should be the coolest man in theatre, but his current ubiquity has resulted in an unfair amount of flak, says Andrzej Lukowski

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 10d

there was probably - admittedly for weird reasons - more chat about the Coldplay tour

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 10d

hmmmm - I think the interesting thing about the Oasis tour is actually how little discourse it threw up in the end - the band played the same setlist competently for several months, fans the world over were generally happy with it, the end

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

The UK’s summer of Oasis is over – but the unity and euphoria it created is unforgettable | Emma Garland

Bringing together people of every generation and accent, the Gallagher brothers articulate something at the very heart of Britishness

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 12d

I suppose there probably was still some potential mileage in ‘Luke went to the Jedi planet to do some important Jedi shit’ but being depressed does seem to account much better for why he’d let the galaxy go to total shit

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 12d

ha wow - yes, everyone being 100% clear it’s a ‘map to Luke Skywalker’ does muddy the waters somewhat, like he’d whimsically left the two halves of his phone number with two different people

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 12d

…was going to be paid off by Luke doing some secret Jedi shit that the next director could decide on (that still doesn’t really make ‘the map to Luke Skywalker’ any less stupid)

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 12d

I feel like Johnson went the only logical route but I wonder if in JJA’s mind the whole wheeze of Luke somewhat bewilderingly leaving a two part map to his exact location with R2 and some random guy in case anyone good or bad really, REALLY wanted to contact him…

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

Amelia Kenworthy is also really good and really funny in the title role – her stage debut! – and quite a swerve from her previous most famous acting role as the nice elven smith lady in Rings of Power who Sauron gaslights and kills

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

Ava Pickett’s Emma at the Rose Kingston got quite ‘mixed’ reviews but I thought it was a hoot, and I thought taking away Emma’s class privilege but replacing it with a toxic cocktail of extreme cleverness and zero emotional intelligence worked really well www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Emma, Rose Theatre Kingston review: funny and fresh modern day take on the Jane Austen classic

Powered by a brilliant stage debut from Amelia Kenworthy, playwright Ava Pickett transposes Austen’s novel to modern day Essex, with very funny results

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 14d

ah interesting that the NYT found a new role for Jesse Green - he is now ‘culture correspondent’, which seems to be broadly in his wheelhouse but sounds like he won’t be doing any reviews www.nytco.com/press/new-ro...

New Role for Jesse Green | The New York Times Company

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