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Post by lynette on May 22, 2017 19:26:17 GMT
It looked like you cn refuse to participate if you wanted to. The cast go round at the beginning to sort out the people who will actually be 'in' and to ask for some reactions at various points. Not scary.
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Post by peggs on May 22, 2017 20:17:44 GMT
Yes there's some 'when I say this' can you do this thrown out to the audience generally before hand but nothing remotely scary, all stay in your seat stuff and for the actual interaction they clearly identify people and okay it with them first so just firmly decline if it's not for you.
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Post by bingomatic on May 23, 2017 17:56:41 GMT
Thanks for the responses on audience participation. A couple of white wines beforehand and it sounds like we'll be fine.
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Post by kathryn on Jun 3, 2017 17:07:16 GMT
Finally saw this today. Clearly Front Row has thoroughly spoiled me - I suspect I would have quite enjoyed it for a tenner but for £40 I resented being in an incredibly uncomfortable chair and looking at people's backs for at least a quarter of the time. Not impressed.
Did they deliberately pick the most uncomfortable chairs possible to encourage people to stand at the end?
As others have noted, some nice singing voices in the cast. The majority of the audience seemed thoroughly tickled by the audience interaction but it added nothing for me. Half the audience failed to stand and were then told we were abstaining. Of course, if we had all actually marched on stage for a sit-in protest it would have totally derailed the play.
What really struck me is how little Ui is actually on stage - the play seems to be mainly about the people around him. I didn't feel like Lenny Henry had a huge amount to work with, in terms of developing a character.
In a moment of foolishness I booked a ticket for the Art of Protest fundraiser tomorrow night - I'm a bit of a sucker for a one-off event. But right now I'm not sure I can be arsed to schlep all the way back into London for it, I'm so unenthused.
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Post by peggs on Jun 12, 2017 18:35:31 GMT
Caught it on Saturday afternoon. Loved Sir Lenny's personal welcome to me before the show. Yeah that might have been my favourite bit too now you mention it and from the sounds of it lucky for once to be in circle row C as could generally see though as it progressed wasn't actually that fussed about being able to do so. Off to read your full report and enjoy re-visiting by earlier rants.
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