#matthew warchus

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PRIDE (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus In 1984, after realizing that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their help. Based on the real life Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign. (link in title)

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Pride Matthew Warchus. 2014

Castle Castell Carreg Cennen, Trapp, Llandeilo SA19 6UA, UK See in map

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Matthew Warchus

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Swooning fangirling post coming up…

So thrilled I got to watch the AMAZING “Present Laughter” tonight on the big screen. I’m not lying when I say I REALLY needed this little piece of joy and magic after the week I’ve had…

Where would I start though? I mean, it’s funny as hell for a start. The entire cast are amazing and Andrew’s ‘Garry Essendine’ is just phenomenal. Absolutely mesmerising to watch. His facial expressions contribute to 90% of the comedy I think. Damn, I didn’t think it was possible to become even more obsessed then I was before but it definitely is 👍 At the end of the day it IS a recording of a play and the performances clearly belong on the stage so if you’re not into theatre and the stereotypical overacting and theatrics of a live show then you might not appreciate it. But the irony runs through the heart of it - half of the story is about an actor who is accused by others around him of overacting and never showing his true self 🤣 🤣

It was literally one of the best things I’ve ever seen and I thank NTLive for deciding to re-release it in the cinemas so it reaches more audiences. I really hope they can stream it at some point like they are with Vanya later in the year. Someone said they didn’t have the rights or something but we’ll see. In any case I’m so so glad I got to see it during this run 😍😍😍

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Matthew Warchus is directing a movie, you say? It's going to be a musical, you say? And he there's an Irish playwright writing it, you say? Iiiiiiiiiiiincheresting! I wonder which actor, who has been talking about wanting to be in a musical for ages and who has helped raise money for Warchus' theatre many many times, might get cast in this!!

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And right by my side there was you Quietly taking a stand And you were holding my hand.

Matilda the Musical (2022) dir. Matthew Warchus

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Last April, Andrew spoke at The Old Vic Tomorrow Gala fundraiser in support of their new Backstage Building, a six-storey building for creativity, education and community. Today he attended the burying of a time capsule in what will be the foundations of that new building.

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 29: Sheila Atim, Old Vic Executive Director Laura Stevenson, Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus and Andrew Scott

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Matilda the Musical (2022, Matthew Warchus)

17/09/2024

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"Because miners dig for coal, which produces power, which allows gay people like you to dance to Bananarama till 3 o'clock in the morning."

Pride, 2014.

Dir. Matthew Warchus | Writ. Stephen Beresford | DOP Tat Radcliffe

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Pride Matthew Warchus. 2014

Village Roman Road, Banwen, Neath, UK See in map

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Pride Month Movie 22: Pride

I was bound to watch Matthew Warchus's feel-good historical drama about the bonds formed in 1984 between Welsh miners and gay and lesbian activists eventually; I own a copy, and I mean . . . it's right there in the name!

As I was working my way towards this film, what I was remembering most were the problems I have with it. There's a fair amount of what might be termed Gayness for Straight Consumption. The young men going to Jonathan for dance lessons so they can impress girls. The Welsh women going to London and demanding full access to the gay scene even when told that some spaces are off limits to them. Even Efina suggesting it is Gethin's responsibility to reach out to his mother, even though their estrangement was created by her rejection of him, while she herself has been sitting on the knowledge that her neighbor Cliff is gay for more than a decade without so much as a word of recognition or encouragement to him. That was a very long fragment; I have A Lot of problems with Efina. Yet the scene where she speaks Welsh to Gethin over the phone is the one that is 100% guaranteed to make me cry every single time!

On the whole, this film gets a lot more right than it gets wrong. One of those things is the theme of young people choosing their own values over those their parents tried to impart. Joe's story is the most obvious example of this, but I'm always struck by the subtle parallel to Joe set up with bigoted Maureen's son, who is also Cliff's nephew. In the beginning, he is as committed as his brother to unwelcoming the members of LGSM, but as time passes, we see him takes small steps away from his mother's values. He is floored by the amount of money LGSM raises with the Pits and Perverts Benefit Ball. He laughs at Efina's joke about taking the striking miners to a "lez-off," much to his brother's chagrin. At the end of the film, he gets off one of the busses that bring the miners to march in the London Pride parade, and when we last see him he's shaking hands with a drag queen.

Joe IS gay, so rejecting homophobia for him is truly a matter of life and death, but choosing acceptance when bigotry has been drilled into you is also a struggle, and it's nice to see that depicted with such a light hand.