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Post by altamont on Mar 12, 2016 23:47:27 GMT
Thanks Mallardo and DC
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Post by theatremadness on Mar 13, 2016 12:08:38 GMT
How high will the stage be? Depends how much it smokes beforehand.
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 28, 2016 18:14:00 GMT
Anyone going to what is now first preview on Tuesday? Would be grateful for approx running time as going Wed and have a train back to Oxford to catch! Quite excited for this now!
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Post by Ruby Sue on Mar 29, 2016 12:53:07 GMT
I think they've just updated their site & it's saying the current approximate running time is 3 hours & 10 minutes including two 20 minute intervals. I wasn't expecting this considering it starts at 7:30pm.
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 29, 2016 13:07:25 GMT
Oh FFS, yet another self-indulgently long show with unnecessary extra intervals! Starting to suspect this is more about maximising bar sales rather than any artistic decision. Or perhaps the Old Vic are adopting my pre-booked toilet visit suggestion and allowing you to select which interval you'd like to have a pee in.
Digging around for info on the production at Trafalgar Studios with Jonathan Pryce a few years ago, that was 2 hours 30 minutes, as was the Michael Gambon one (which had two short intervals).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 13:15:59 GMT
Oh for the love of all things holy, I'm getting VERY close to returning every single ticket I've booked for a show that runs over 3 hours, and telling the box office manager in no uncertain times why I am doing so. There is not a single play in the world that benefits from running for 3 hours or longer, and it's incredibly indulgent and ridiculous of directors to keep doing this.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 29, 2016 13:21:53 GMT
They seem to be pushing for extra sales in all their bars, and hoping people will make a night of it rather than go to one of the other pubs/bars nearby, what with the discounted drinks on offer in Mark's Bar after the show for ticket-holders (well they did for The Master Builder, I'm presuming they'll be doing the same for this and Groundhog Day) I haven't been particularly impressed by any of the bars in the OV, what with the queueing (or lack of) and the not too plush toilets, I'll pass on interval drinks and head out sharpish at the end (particularly if it's not going to empty out until getting on for eleven o' clock).
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Post by Ruby Sue on Mar 29, 2016 13:25:16 GMT
When a show starts at 7pm I consider that fair warning in itself that I'm in for a long night but I wasn't expecting that with this one. It's more annoying that the running time is being inflated by having an additional interval but I'm guessing there's a reason for this other than simply allowing them to sell more ice cream!!
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 29, 2016 13:27:54 GMT
Over 3 hours? Pinter? Oh dear god it's going to be a long evening! Have tickets for tomorrow night! It is ridiculous when you dont live in London and have to get trains home! I honestly didn't think the play was that long! Perhaps the pauses are really really really long?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 13:34:21 GMT
Previous productions have run nowhere near the 3 hour mark. Even allowing for the additional 20 minute interval, yep, it's going to be a night of LONG pauses, and I don't like ANYONE involved enough to put up with this self-indulgent idiocy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 13:37:20 GMT
Over 3 hours!! WTF?
I know The Crucible was long but that had Richard Armitage for heavens sake. With his lovely face and big arms and everything. Hell he even took his shirt off to have a wash for the love of Christ!
I don't believe for one minute that Timothy Spall is going to offer me anything that comes close to that to make me want to stay for any longer than an hour and a half.
Oh, those lovely arms . . . .
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Post by Ruby Sue on Mar 29, 2016 14:00:11 GMT
I did go back & double check I hadn't read it wrong!!
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Post by caa on Mar 29, 2016 15:00:39 GMT
I reckon this show will over run every night, as having two intervals will mean that people will always be late getting back to their seats.
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Post by DuchessConstance on Mar 29, 2016 16:46:30 GMT
I'm surprised more two-interval shows don't do the Oresteia thing with a clock countdown.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 17:31:54 GMT
Managed to snag a £10 pwc ticket this afternoon for tonight. Will report back!
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Post by Sotongal on Mar 29, 2016 17:34:02 GMT
Over 3 hours!! WTF? I know The Crucible was long but that had Richard Armitage for heavens sake. With his lovely face and big arms and everything. Hell he even took his shirt off to have a wash for the love of Christ! I don't believe for one minute that Timothy Spall is going to offer me anything that comes close to that to make me want to stay for any longer than an hour and a half. Oh, those lovely arms . . . . The Crucible cut it's time back during the previews - when it first started audience members, caught unawares, were having to leave before the end to catch trains home.
But yes, Richard Armitage made it worth it, for many people...
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 29, 2016 19:30:37 GMT
Have given back ticket for tomorrow night (Wed) due to long running time. They are taking the mickey with two intervals and as I am on my own it's too boring to spend 40mins just standing around, just for the pleasure of making me much later home! I doubt they will learn from their mistake.... It's not even as though one can get out quickly at the end...takes ages to shuffle out of the Old Vic! Disappointed as was looking forward to this....
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Post by max on Mar 29, 2016 19:50:19 GMT
I guess we should hang on to see what innovative high concept necessitates that running time. If there isn't one, it's just highly off-putting self indulgence and pretension.
It's NOT an extra long play!
I'm getting pretty tired of the word 'theatre' equating with the word 'gruelling'. It may be big but it's not clever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 19:51:14 GMT
We should definitely write letters of disappointment. They'll just keep doing it if they don't realise how genuinely aggravating to audiences it is.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 29, 2016 21:17:03 GMT
I guess we should hang on to see what innovative high concept necessitates that running time. If there isn't one, it's just highly off-putting self indulgence and pretension. It's NOT an extra long play! I'm getting pretty tired of the word 'theatre' equating with the word 'gruelling'. It may be big but it's not clever. Taking the Pinter pause to it's extreme. Where are they getting the additional 20 minutes from? Is there a first draft that has been recently found?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 21:33:35 GMT
Anyone there tonight? Are you free yet?
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Post by meso77 on Mar 29, 2016 22:10:33 GMT
Finished at about 22.45.
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Post by foxa on Mar 29, 2016 22:44:39 GMT
Wow - long. And to think, the film is only 100 minutes... that would do me fine.
How was it?
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Post by lynette on Mar 29, 2016 22:52:59 GMT
Well we all know what Stoppard says in The Real Inspector Hound, don't we? Finishing after 10.30 is self indulgent. And I agree with that. ( and I dare say so would Pinter)
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Post by Polly1 on Mar 29, 2016 23:18:51 GMT
Have given back ticket for tomorrow night (Wed) due to long running time. They are taking the mickey with two intervals and as I am on my own it's too boring to spend 40mins just standing around, just for the pleasure of making me much later home! I doubt they will learn from their mistake.... It's not even as though one can get out quickly at the end...takes ages to shuffle out of the Old Vic! Disappointed as was looking forward to this.... Completely agree, my ticket for Thursday is going back tomorrow. The Old Vic seem to have lost the plot a bit at the moment, still haven't got over their outrageous dynamic pricing for Ralph.
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Post by DuchessConstance on Mar 30, 2016 0:43:53 GMT
At least Hairy Ape was short and had hot men in it...
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 30, 2016 12:36:56 GMT
When I looked this morning there was one ticket left....now quite a lot of tickets on the website. ..can't guarantee to sell mine as not sold out. Hmmmm. Won't refund ...I am not very impressed. Plus to sell it I has to get email,fill on all sorts of details on a form and mail back, despite having order number and leaving ticket at box office! Go to the bottom of the class Old Vic!
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Mar 30, 2016 12:52:11 GMT
Bristol Old Vic production c.2003 was 3 hours with only two ten minute intervals, I think the Patrick Stewart Broadway one was 3 hours but with two intervals. It's a play that stretches or contracts seemingly at will, you can find others that came in at under two and a half hours.
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Post by Polly1 on Mar 30, 2016 13:15:06 GMT
When I looked this morning there was one ticket left....now quite a lot of tickets on the website. ..can't guarantee to sell mine as not sold out. Hmmmm. Won't refund ...I am not very impressed. Plus to sell it I has to get email,fill on all sorts of details on a form and mail back, despite having order number and leaving ticket at box office! Go to the bottom of the class Old Vic! Ditto again! The box office chappie said they had to sell the day seats first too, so I'm resigned to writing off my £10 (only £8 even if they do sell it!) I suppose that's the risk we take booking tickets before knowing the running time, but it seems the only way to see stuff without paying silly money. Perhaps their logic is that longer running times mean only Londoners can go and they * are they ones more willing to pay the rip-off, sorry, dynamic prices. (* some Londoners, not all, before anyone shouts at me).
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Post by caa on Mar 30, 2016 13:32:11 GMT
Why couldn't they have got Richard Jones to do it, as I'm sure he would have got it down to around 90 minutes.
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