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Did Rise and Fall of LIttle Voice become the film LIttle Voice?

That's the badger. His style is a little Aye Ooop Alan Bleasdale for me - but he's quite a bit more surreal, and has a dry humour I quite liked.

LV (the film) isn't quite representative. Try 'I Licked A Slag's Deodourant' - if you hate it, you'll hate most of his stuff!

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Anyone ever seen anything by Marina Carr? Bog of Cats? Her new play at the Royal Court is being well reviewed.

I saw On Raftery's Hill at The Gate in Dublin in 2000. I enjoyed it but it was quite dark. Very dark actually. I was a little put off by people clapping at the end of scenes.

I loved 'Little Voice' up the ending! But I'm not going to criticise a Cartwright, I'll never do that!

What happened to my Cartwright post?

Tip... If you really are Neil Pearson, then report one of your own posts to the Moderator, giving proof you are who you say you are.

That way the Moderator will let your posts remain.

However, for legal purposes, if you post something that makes you 'appear' to be one of the panel, without substantiating that claim - they will be forced to remove that post to prevent deformation of the named individual.

"Philstein"

Hi, you say you're in Toronto?

Is that filling in for Washington, DC?

If so, I guess you're still working on the thriller for the Beeb? Is it a series or a one/off play?

"State Within" about the British Ambassador to US?

How's it going?

PhilStien,

Point of note: While your tally shows that you have made 19 posts, your profile only records 15 of these... Therefore the moderator has decided that you have made 4 posts that they were forced to delete.

If it is valid to do so, contact the 'Production Team' who have been verified as legit and have them make a post to confirm your identity. This post could then be 'reported' to the moderator to ensure your posts can remain.

I enjoyed the play...

I'm the sort of pretentious g*t who responds to
this kind of drama...
I also enjoyed....

Michael Frayn's Copenhagen...which had I suppose the same idea.

The responsibility of the artist/scientist to humanity or even every human beings responsibility to his fellow man.

My question?

Yes,
I read that you particularly wished to play this part?
-Major Arnold

Political theatre isn't usually considered good box office...
so was it writing (which I thought was excellent) or
the subject matter, which made you want this part?

On second thoughts, re-reading my post- I sound like the worst kind of chat show questioner.

And I sound feeble and trite.

I think if one had the ability to write, and write plays, this is the kind of play one would have like to have written.

A huge theme but humanised into debate between people,
because obviously, no one is going to pay just to hear a political tract read out.

A difficult kind of writing to pull off, successfully.

Which explains why political plays, David Hare's included, are so rare.

From JaysPlays:

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If it is valid to do so, contact the 'Production Team' who have been verified as legit and have them make a post to confirm your identity. This post could then be 'reported' to the moderator to ensure your posts can remain

Jay, you're doing the same thing as Adman tried yesterday,
it would make this discussion much more interesting if Philstein was Neil Pearson.

I'm happy to keep an open mind...
since there's no way of settling the matter.

But I'm not sure any of us can demand that any individual logging prove who they are.

Yep! I'm doing the same thing... And I'm happy with it.

I've been using writing and plawright forums for over 7 years. I've seen too many bad things happen to an online community because of false claims of identity.

I cannot state 100% that PS is not NP, but if I was the real McCoy, rather than question where my posts have gone, I would be approching the moderator or production team to have my identity confirmed.

While it would be exciting if it is NP, if it isn't it could provide dangerous advice to developing playwrights and what would the real NP feel about the statements that are being made with his name attached to them?

Discuss - Fine. Discuss Claiming to be someone in authority - That warrants reporting.

Lewes, it's always the writing that makes the decision on a job. It's perfectly possible to screw up a good piece of writing in production, but no production ever turned a bad piece of writing into a masterpiece. I agree with you about 'Taking Sides': it gives a human face to enormously weighty thematic material -- and also presents it in a tried and tested genre (it's essentially a courtroom drama). But why do you think you're pretentious for enjoying it?

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But why do you think you're pretentious for enjoying it?

I don't really consider myself pretentious but;

I've lost count of the number of times I've dragged friends to the cinema [generally to see a new print of a "classic"] or to a play, and have them audibly groaning in the seat beside me or even nodding off.

One colleague refers to certain movies ;for example Bergman's woderful "Seventh Seal"- as Tim-movies; usually black and white or silent or lacking in action.

Mostly I find myself going on my own- hey it's cheaper!

Woderful, btw, is Old Swedish for wonderful.

Sometimes the spellcheck doesn't function.

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Discuss Claiming to be someone in authority - That warrants reporting.

An actor's someone in authority,Jays?

I'm not sure, even Sir Ian McKellen for all his gravitas, would convince me to shop at Tesco's.

As far as this forum goes, Neil Pearson is someone in authority. I'm sure that's what Jay meant.

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Originally posted by Lewes:

I'm happy to keep an open mind...
since there's no way of settling the matter.

Well, it seems to me there's a painfully easy way to solve the matter - in fact numerous options have been listed here. Get a Production Team tag is the obvious and Phil still hasn't explained why he can't be bothered to do so. Sure, can't MAKE Phil prove that he's Neil Pearson - but I frankly don't want to make a tit of myself thinking he is and getting information that's fake. (i.e. regarding TPTT) If he wants to come on here and chat as Phil then I'm happy to discuss anything and everything. Anyone can come on here and pretend to be someone different (the joy of the internet) - but to pretend to be one of the judges of this competition is down right manipulative and frankly a little disturbing. Just kind of taints the atmosphere of the forum.

Mrs R, I agree. I'll mostly talk quite happily with anyone on this Forum - but not with someone who is claiming to be able to offer me special insights as Neil Pearson when (a) s/he can't answer a simple question I've posed about NP's life (b) the Production Team have been asked to OK his ID and, in response, have wiped out the posts in which s/he (c) this happens all the time on TV programme websites (d) the real Neil Pearson, even if he could be bothered to become a reguar here, would have KNOWN this would be the response and (e) will not have TPTT validate his id here.

I can't prove to anyone that this isn't him either - although it clearly isn't - but whoever s/he is wants to have the satisfaction of laughing at us and our gullibility from behind a keyboard somewhere in a sad, grotty little bedsit. Personally, I'd just rather they went back to one-handed activity around the porn sites.

And I'll give you two further observations, for what they're worth.

Toronto is 5 hours behind us. "Neil Pearson" is obviously not a very busy actor - by far the majority of his posts are made at between 10am and 6pm local time. Out of 16 posts which remain of his 21, there are only two which fall outside that band - one at at 8.30pm local time, one at 10.30pm local time.

And guess what the name of the server airport is for Toronto?

Just coincidentally, of course?

Pearson International.

It's a pity it has come to this.

This forum is coming to an end as the programme has now been broadcast.

But the discussions that should have followed have been marred by a question regarding one member's identity.

It would appear that the death nail to TPTT has been struck, regardless of our aspirations or the future of the production.

"Isn't the penguins thing a little embarrassing?"

No. Not if you've been with this from the start.

And are in at the end.

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Originally posted by TheAdMan:
"Isn't the penguins thing a little embarrassing?"

No. Not if you've been with this from the start.

And are in at the end.

Wow, Admansterama, I leave the forum for two days and I come back to apocalyptic messages of the end of the forum. Don't leave me now! Had a strange meeting with a real theatre producer. Maybe there is hope!

I want everyone on this forum to get their plays out there and end on a happy note. Is that too much to ask? I would also like George W to resign and for there to be no more ASBOs and I would like more transparency in local government. And I would like an eleven carat canary yellow diamond ring. And I would like to solve the mystery of PS/NP before we all ride off into the sunset.

Anyone else have any final requests?

I do so want to believe you Phil/Neil...

But a member doesn't make such posts - the moderator or, in this forum, Production Team do.

Also, when were you suspended from posting? As far as I was aware, you have only suffered deleted posts.

Also, could you explain why the moderator has restored your posting rights, but has not restored all of you posts (at the time of this post, you have a post tally of 22, but only 17 are visable)?

As I have said before - I will be ver excited if you are who you say you are... However, to protect the repuation of the said actor and the function of the forum... The question has to be asked.

Ok. That's enough. You are unconvinceable, and consequently unhelpable.

Bye.

NP