Schweyk in the Second World War (2009) - Revision history

Katwoman: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

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‎Reminiscences and Anecdotes

Helen at 17:58, 11 April 2014

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Brian Fretwell: /* Gallery */

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‎Gallery

James Hough: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

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‎Reminiscences and Anecdotes

Mark Ireson: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

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‎Reminiscences and Anecdotes

Mark Ireson: /* Reviews */

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‎Reviews

Mark Ireson: /* Crew */

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‎Crew

Mark Ireson: /* Historical Mistakes! */

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‎Historical Mistakes!

James Hough at 18:28, 29 July 2009

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James Hough at 18:24, 29 July 2009

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	The Germans got booed at the curtain call on the last night.		The Germans got booed at the curtain call on the last night.
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		+	I had to get the costumes from a place called Khaki Devil which operates out of a sort of barn thing deep in the Suffolk countryside. Suffolk, I thought, how far can that be? Well miles away apparently, especially as I got so lost that the owner had to come and meet me in a feed store car park virtually weeping with frustration. However his costumes were excellent and I then had to spend the next few days driving around with a load of Nazi uniforms and other regalia in my car. My mother was Jewish. Go figure.

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 *Mrs Kopecka – [[Jenny McLaughlin]]
 *Mr Baloun – [[Peter Medd]]
-*Geheime Staatspolizei Agent Brettschneider / Generalfeldmarschall Von Bock ("Der Sterber"), Kommandant, Heeresgruppe Süd / Herr Doctor / Singing Panzer Trooper: [[Christopher Vian-Smith]]
+*Geheime Staatspolizei Agent Brettschneider / Generalfeldmarschall Von Bock ("Der Sterber"), Kommandant, Heeresgruppe Süd / Heer Doktor / Singing Panzer Trooper: [[Christopher Vian-Smith]]
 *Anna / "Lady" in Hitler's HQ / Mobile Squad to HQ Trooper No. 2 / Customer in the Chalice – [[Karen Webb]] (mistakenly referred to as "Anna Webb" in the programme owing to idiot director)
 *And Lux, Mr Vojte's dog - played by himself

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 == Gallery ==
-John Sansom's photographs of the play can be seen [http://www.photos.sltarchive.co.uk/schweyk/ here]
+John Sansom's photographs of the play can be seen here http://www.photos.sltarchive.co.uk/thumbnails.php?album=60
 == Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

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	Giving the following direction (when rehearsing the first scene in Hitler's HQ): "Can all the Germans b*gger off that way..."		Giving the following direction (when rehearsing the first scene in Hitler's HQ): "Can all the Germans b*gger off that way..."
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		+	The Germans got booed at the curtain call on the last night.

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 JH recalls:
-Standing outside Ego's on his own prior to a rehearsal.  A voice with a heavy German accent suddenly called out: "Hey you, you gorgeous yunk man: vood you like to get into my car?"  Yes, [[Stefan Lorett]], who already had [[Nick Conway) inside the said vehicle.
+Standing outside Ego's on his own prior to a rehearsal.  A voice with a heavy German accent suddenly called out: "Hey you, you gorgeous yunk man: vood you like to get into my car?"  Yes, [[Stefan Lorett]], who already had [[Nick Conway]] inside the said vehicle.
 Giving the following direction (when rehearsing the first scene in Hitler's HQ): "Can all the Germans b*gger off that way..."
 == See Also ==

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	I'm not sure that the staging worked completely but it is difficult to see how you could have achieved what you did any other way.		I'm not sure that the staging worked completely but it is difficult to see how you could have achieved what you did any other way.
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 *Lighting rigger - [[Karen Webb]]
 *Poster - [[Mark Davies]]
 *Set and prop construction - [[Mark Ireson]], [[Graham Clements]] and the crew
 *Show photography - [[John Sansom]]

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 Brecht also had Hitler addressing Von Bock as "Herr General", whereas Von Bock was a Generalfeldmarschall at the time in question (1942).
-It also appears Brecht failed to recognise that an SS lieutenant was kown as an "Obersturmführer".
+It also appears Brecht failed to recognise that an SS lieutenant was known as an "Obersturmführer".
 We made the following ones:
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 Of the eleven helmets used by the German soldiers in the show, ten were First World War "coal scuttle" replicas and only one was a Second World War model.  Although some WW1 helmets did come out of retirement towards the end of the WW2, there would not have been such a high proportion in 1942, even in occupied Prague.
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 == Gestapo Report ==

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 To be fair, after Bullshot anything that came next was going to have a steep hill to climb to impress me as much as that did but I came with an open heart hoping to find Schweyk doing just that. I’m afraid that I was disappointed to say that it didn’t.
-As the play was that bit more dated, with what I thought was a strange set up in Prompt and some slightly tedious characters (sorry but if I heard that man moan about being hungry again I would have went down and got him a packet of our new Bacon crisps and stuffed it down his throat! and a group of people who just stood back and let Jenny be punched across the face when the Nazis didn’t really seem to be stopping them attending to her! [''Note from JH'': there were two German soldiers on stage at the time, with submachine guns, who could have wiped out all the customers in a couple of seconds.  The play also took place after the infamous massacre at Lidice. <ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice </ref>]  And Schweyk himself, who was he, what was he about, did I care?), it lost my attention, where Bullshot had grabbed my attention. I’m afraid that by the second half I really didn’t care if Shrek got to Russia, or Germany, or wherever else he wanted to go to!
+As the play was that bit more dated, with what I thought was a strange set up in Prompt and some slightly tedious characters (sorry but if I heard that man moan about being hungry again I would have went down and got him a packet of our new Bacon crisps and stuffed it down his throat! and a group of people who just stood back and let Jenny be punched across the face when the Nazis didn’t really seem to be stopping them attending to her! [''Note from JH: there were two German soldiers on stage at the time, with submachine guns, who could have wiped out all the customers in a couple of seconds.  The play also took place after the infamous massacre at Lidice.'' <ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice </ref>]  And Schweyk himself, who was he, what was he about, did I care?), it lost my attention, where Bullshot had grabbed my attention. I’m afraid that by the second half I really didn’t care if Shrek got to Russia, or Germany, or wherever else he wanted to go to!
 At times I felt that parts of the play were giving James a one trick poney status, similar comic genius just being repeated, however! suddenly we had stand out brilliance, the tank, the washing line, the swing, Karens fake b**bs and her face throughout, the prisoners singing, to name the ones that worked for me. And for them I’m grateful as they made me laugh, a lot.
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 JH recalls:
-Standing outside Ego's on his own prior to a rehearsal.  A voice with a heavy German accent suddently called out: "Hey you, you gorgeous yunk man: vood you like to get into my car?"  Yes, [[Stefan Lorett]], who already had [[Nick Conway) inside his car.
+Standing outside Ego's on his own prior to a rehearsal.  A voice with a heavy German accent suddenly called out: "Hey you, you gorgeous yunk man: vood you like to get into my car?"  Yes, [[Stefan Lorett]], who already had [[Nick Conway) inside the said vehicle.
 Giving the following direction (when rehearsing the first scene in Hitler's HQ): "Can all the Germans b*gger off that way..."

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 At the end of a scene featuring Hitler and Göring, the former presented the latter with a medal, namely a silver Spanish Cross with swords.  However, as this German medal was for fighting in the Spanish Civil War (something Göring didn't actually do), this was historically inaccurate.
 == Gestapo Report ==
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 == Reviews ==
 Some review quotes go here
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 == Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==
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