Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Jul 20, 2017 5:55:24 GMT
Hi all...my family just planned a last minute trip to London over the holidays and I found out about Network a tad too late to snag tickets during the time we are there. I'm unfamiliar with UK practices (from the US) - are there any places that might re-sell tickets (like Stubhub) after the event has sold out? Thanks very much for any information. If one of you has an American Express card (or knows someone who has one who can book and arrange for you to pick up the tickets) there are still reserved tickets available for most performances - go to www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/amex
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Post by allthatjazz on Jul 20, 2017 13:27:37 GMT
Thanks for all the information...I'll definitely look into all of this. It will just be for me (my travel companions are either not into the source material or into Bryan Cranston) so hopefully one will pop up!
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Post by allthatjazz on Jul 29, 2017 17:42:37 GMT
Just wanted to thank everyone for their advice. Kept checking back and a center seat in the circle opened up for the January 3rd performance that I was able to snag. So excited!
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Post by theatrelover123 on Aug 2, 2017 9:53:28 GMT
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Post by lynette on Sept 7, 2017 11:27:54 GMT
I've asked for more clarification about the eating option. A gimmick or what?
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Post by Jan on Sept 7, 2017 12:17:11 GMT
It's strange. My brain knows that those teaser videos are next-to-worthless. A few seconds of images largely irrelevant or too abstract and opaque to give an idea about the end result. My heart on the other hand is thinking "Whoop whoop whoop. Can't wait!" Why not watch the actual film, that will dampen your expectations. I remember seeing it when it fitst came out - painfully slow and dull, couple of good scenes.
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Post by alnoor on Sept 7, 2017 12:44:05 GMT
And what will the neighbours say? Imelda will be their neighbour until January and if I remember correctly, she does not like food and drinks in the theatre!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 13:04:20 GMT
And what will the neighbours say? Imelda will be their neighbour until January and if I remember correctly, she does not like food and drinks in the theatre! She'll come storming in and throw everyone's plates on the floor. Actually THAT I'd pay the £60 for!
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Post by foxa on Sept 8, 2017 8:56:06 GMT
I've asked for more clarification about the eating option. A gimmick or what? www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/foodworkIt sounds hellish. Will people be eating onstage in full view to (in my interpretation) serve as a visual representation of uncaring capitalists (or if you have paid £75 to be on a bar stool, slightly less affluent or comfortable capitalist bastards)? The waiters will probably begin shouting 'I'm mad as hell and am not going to take it anymore' as they remove your plates. But maybe it will be lovely. They seem proud of their secret door and the Maitre D.
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Post by Rory on Sept 8, 2017 10:14:23 GMT
The "Foodwork" option would be my worst nightmare. Absolutely ghastly! But horses for (main) courses! 😄
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Post by Rory on Sept 8, 2017 10:16:28 GMT
God, imagine if something went down the wrong way on stage 😉 Ahem!
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Post by kathryn on Sept 8, 2017 11:24:39 GMT
I would spill something or drop something or accidentally make food fly across the stage at an actor, I just know I would!
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Post by adrianics on Sept 8, 2017 13:18:55 GMT
I'm so excited for this. Network is one of my favourite movies and Bryan Cranston may well be my favourite actor on this planet, this is once-in-a-lifetime stuff and we paid far more for tickets than we normally would!
Foodwork sounds... Oh god. I'm normally up for audience participation but I don't understand the point of it or how it compliments the themes of the story? Plus as above I'd feel horribly self-conscious and exposed.
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Sept 8, 2017 13:35:11 GMT
Possibly a similar set design to Roman Tragedies, where the audience could wander up on stage and buy & eat food? Obviously not wandering on and off stage in this case, but similar idea?
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Post by lynette on Sept 8, 2017 22:52:12 GMT
Did you check out the menu- kale? I have been offered eating places for this as a supporter, no ballot. I'm just horrified frankly unless I have got it completely wrong. What comes to mind is the kind of trickery we witnessed in the play about mobile phones at the Donmar when a member of the audience, ho de ho, was exposed in such an uncomfortable way. Not to mention what you have already mentioned, the mishaps of eating! I look forward to hearing about this show.
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Post by loureviews on Sept 9, 2017 8:10:46 GMT
Well, I wouldn't partake in the Food thing but having already booked to see the show I'm intrigued as to how they integrate the restaurant with the 'production going on around them'. Sounds bizarre.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 9, 2017 8:29:10 GMT
Did you check out the menu- kale? I have been offered eating places for this as a supporter, no ballot. I'm just horrified frankly unless I have got it completely wrong. What comes to mind is the kind of trickery we witnessed in the play about mobile phones at the Donmar when a member of the audience, ho de ho, was exposed in such an uncomfortable way. Not to mention what you have already mentioned, the mishaps of eating! I look forward to hearing about this show. The Donmar play was called Privacy (I think). Not the best of plays but it certainly gave food for thought (see what I did there!) Obviously when you make a booking these days with a credit card - they know your name and where you are sat in the auditorium and as most people have their lives online now, a quick pre-show search clearly flagged up several potential victims on Facebook etc. of drunken hen parties etc. and a quick check of Google Earth and your street and house are up on the screen for all to see. The audience and the person in question seemed horrified that 200 people in the audience saw her house and her antics on her hen night, but of course this information is readily available to the world should it be searched for......
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Post by Sooze on Sept 10, 2017 20:01:21 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant?
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Post by Latecomer on Sept 10, 2017 21:08:45 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant? Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant!
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 10, 2017 22:09:35 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant? Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant! There was something else weird they did to an actual audience, I think it involved picking an envelope but I can't remember specifically. The night I went, the "victim" was @n1david. Perhaps he could jog our memories...
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Post by sf on Sept 10, 2017 22:39:28 GMT
The Foodwork idea looks weirdly horrifying. Or rather, it might very well be fascinating to watch - I'll find out in November - but I can't imagine it would be something I'd enjoy doing.
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Post by lynette on Sept 10, 2017 23:11:21 GMT
Yes indeed the Privacy person was a plant. That's what I mean. Are they gonna do something similar with audience ? Funny thing about the plant was that the person I was with had a long conversation with her in the interval before the reveal giving much well considered advice only to be embarrassed beyond when the reveal happened. I think manipulating people to that extent isn't on. That is why I don't like the eating idea.
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Post by n1david on Sept 10, 2017 23:26:55 GMT
Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant! There was something else weird they did to an actual audience, I think it involved picking an envelope but I can't remember specifically. The night I went, the "victim" was @n1david. Perhaps he could jog our memories... I’m amazed you remember that! I was invited ahead of the performance to do some stuff on Facebook in order that they could use my profile in the show. My face and some things related to me appeared in the montage of images during the show but not identified to me so I saw my house and a couple of Facebook images but not connected to me and so briefly that no one else would connect them to me. There was a bit in the show where they choose one of (I think) four or six people to go into more detail and my image was there but the person they picked was, indeed a plant and their responses were scripted. So it was a bit like One Man Two Guvnors where they use real people in a fairly trivial way early in the show in order to make the audience believe that all the participants are real. But none of my personal info was in any identifiable way used in the show.
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Post by showgirl on Sept 19, 2017 18:35:25 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval.
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Post by Jon on Sept 19, 2017 18:55:17 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval. Two hours isn't that long considering I've said through longer films and epic plays like Angels in America. Maybe you should write to Rufus Norris and complain!
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Post by pauln on Sept 19, 2017 20:21:35 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval. You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? That doesn't seem very plausible. Besides that, it totally is the directors choice and if he doesn't feel like there's a place for one, he shouldn't be forced to interrupt the play for people who can't concentrate for longer than an hour.
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2017 20:59:14 GMT
Seem to be tix for quite a few dates now but oh help, the website is also saying c 2 hours, no interval! Cursing yet another interval-free production anywhere but that it should be at the NT again is really galling. At this rate perhaps they should instead announce which productions will have the benefit of an interval. Can't see the problem. The original film of Network was 2hrs without an interval (though it seemed much much longer).
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Post by crowblack on Sept 19, 2017 21:00:45 GMT
You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? I can, but I'm going to be seeing this from an uncomfy cheap seat so the chance to stand and stretch after an hour so so would be welcome!
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Post by Jan on Sept 19, 2017 21:13:45 GMT
You can't focus on a story for two hours without having to take a bathroom break? I can, but I'm going to be seeing this from an uncomfy cheap seat so the chance to stand and stretch after an hour so so would be welcome! Might be even more uncomfortable for the on-stage diners. Actually 2hrs is right on the limit of what I find acceptable for no interval - just enough for Macbeth or Tempest - but I seem to recall one part of Nichols Nickelby ran over two hours each side of the interval - Peak Nunn.
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