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domino l - l - l
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RE: Damien in 'The Body Of An American' by Dan O'Brien | The Gate Theatre 16 Jan-8 Feb, Royal & Derngate 27 Feb-8 March
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I'll do that now Ritz I hope you have an incredible time and please do come and tell us all about it after.

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Dan O'Brien will be on BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' tonight, in an interview recorded yesterday.

to listen live and on catchup, click on the link below (should work internationally!)


Front Row | BBC Radio 4



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Thanks domino! I know I am going to miss it but when I get a chance I'll def catch up!! Should be interesting!

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I'm looking forward to it Glofigs, interested in what Dan O'Brien will have to say about the play. it is on in a few minutes but as you say, it will be available on catchup!

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Talk about timing!
I started to listen, eager to hear what Dan O'Brien has to say, and just as I hear his voice the phone rings. It's my mother and the call doesn't finish until the show has moved on to the next section!
I think I heard excerpts from the play in the background too, with interesting accents (i could be wrong). Oh well, thank goodness for the i-player.

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Hi becca! yes, there were clips, American and other accents, it all happened quite quickly so I could not tell if it was Damien or not, need to listen again!
*waits patiently with you for it to become available on the iplayer*

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Question: what time on that? So I know how much needs to be skipped when I listen to it later.

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"We've been played! My God! We've been played!"

"Annie's getting hysterical downstairs and I'm not enjoying it"

"kill me. Kill me now. You can tell Annie that I attacked you or something"

"“Were you guys talking about me? I heard ‘clearly gorgeous’” 

 "Yes because otherwise you are quite the catch"
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I thought I heard an african accent that could have been Damien... I almost hung up on my mother! Hurry up i-player!

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The Dan O'Brien / 'BOA' piece is now available on BBC Radio iplayer !

(09.10 mark)

what do you all think, is that Damien?

Front Row | BBC iplayer catchup



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How exciting, there are going to be different accents in the play.

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Just listened. It was so fun to hear a piece from the play. I recognized his voice in a heartbeat. So great!

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My all time fave Hal line (just love the way he says it)

"We've been played! My God! We've been played!"

"Annie's getting hysterical downstairs and I'm not enjoying it"

"kill me. Kill me now. You can tell Annie that I attacked you or something"

"“Were you guys talking about me? I heard ‘clearly gorgeous’” 

 "Yes because otherwise you are quite the catch"
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OMG, that's totes Damien.  I know I shouldn't have, it's not a laughing subject, but I laughed giddily at all his accents!



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So the first voice we hear is definitely Damien & he & William alternate lines in that clip with various accents. They certainly help to distinguish the many different characters both with be playing.
The more I read about & hear of the Body of an American the more excited I am to see it.

Anybody else also inclined to re-watch Black Hawk Down when they read about the play?....must find my dvd.



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I have it at 11:35, not 9:10.



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The Dan O'Brien part starts at 9:10 for me.

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Dan O'Brien just RTd the forum tweet mentioning clip of Damien, so i guess that is 'official' confirmation!

It must be fun and challenging to play so many different characters and accents and switch it up like that. WOW.

I get the urge to read the play when I read about the play becca! but am going to wait until after i hear all your stories

I was referring to the whole segment with Dan O'Brien on the play begining at 09.10 whimsy, do you mean the clips?

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Dan O'Brien also just thanked you for the heads up on the i-player link, without actually tagging you into the tweet Domino. Double confirmation

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yes the clip is at 11.35



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Saw it Becca!

Gotcha whimsy!

So....because this could get confusing the whole segment with Dan O'Brien begins at the 09.10 mark and the clip with Damien at 11.35

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Another interesting article about the play in today's Metro:-

metro.co.uk/2014/01/16/dan-obriens-the-body-of-an-american-premieres-in-london-4264130/

I'll pick up tomorrow's paper as well in case there's a review

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Thanks for posting Kat, Fascinating article from the Metro, great insights:

"The play’s unusual, unnerving structure helps convey this. All the characters are voiced by the two actors, switching back and forth, and sometimes splitting the same character’s lines between them mid-thought or sentence.

‘I want it to be disorienting,’ says O’Brien. ‘To evoke what Paul has gone through: that feeling of strangeness that comes with trauma. It embodies the sense of splitting he felt. The texture of the play is about memory and consciousness, so it’s a way to dramatise somebody talking to and questioning themselves.’

In the claustrophobic confines of the Gate Theatre’s staging, it should prove a visceral experience. ‘I want people to feel trapped, to be overwhelmed in a good way,’ he says. ‘Part of the meaning of the story is to be less frightened of people like Paul but also of the stories he covers: less knee-jerk avoidant of horror in life, or pain or suffering.

‘I was also reacting to this feeling that Americans were tuning out the war in Iraq but that it was affecting us like a ghost. There should have been so much more outrage. Instead there was all this weird repression and denial.’

We’re back to hauntings again: O’Brien’s interest has deep personal roots in a distressing childhood with parents who displayed a remarkable level of emotional cruelty, a subject he candidly explores in The Body Of An American."



You guys who are going to see the play are in for an intense and powerful journey with this play, it sounds more and mroe incredible the more we hear about it. The article also explains what was happening in that clip. where lines /characters are split between the actors.

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Very excited to hear the clip on Front Row....wasn't expecting that at all!  And the Metro article is excellent - "In the claustrophobic confines of the Gate Theatre’s staging, it should prove a visceral experience"....in every way!! 

I've seen the same theatre production more than once before, but never in 2 different venues and I'm really looking forward to seeing the difference a few weeks, a change of venue and a different audience will make to the experience.

Kat - I presume (based on ticket prices) that the few first performances are previews....I'm not sure what day the full price tickets started (and the 1st week is sold out...so I can't look it up!) but it suggests that there will be a press night - so I doubt there'll be any reviews until then.

Only 2 days....



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Ok as it turns out, you cannot skip if you are listening to it on a device. Lesson learned on that one.

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My all time fave Hal line (just love the way he says it)

"We've been played! My God! We've been played!"

"Annie's getting hysterical downstairs and I'm not enjoying it"

"kill me. Kill me now. You can tell Annie that I attacked you or something"

"“Were you guys talking about me? I heard ‘clearly gorgeous’” 

 "Yes because otherwise you are quite the catch"
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Eeeek! the play is literally about to open!!! break a leg Damo! actiontheatrecurtains

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Damien said it was the first preview.



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My all time fave Hal line (just love the way he says it)

"We've been played! My God! We've been played!"

"Annie's getting hysterical downstairs and I'm not enjoying it"

"kill me. Kill me now. You can tell Annie that I attacked you or something"

"“Were you guys talking about me? I heard ‘clearly gorgeous’” 

 "Yes because otherwise you are quite the catch"
 
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