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Post by learfan on Jul 5, 2018 17:26:23 GMT
I booked for matinee on final day, 1 Dec.£12.50 absolute bargain! Will book for The Son at the Tricycle (sorry the new name is stupid) when booking opens in September.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Jul 5, 2018 17:32:48 GMT
I booked for matinee on final day, 1 Dec.£12.50 absolute bargain! Will book for The Son at the Tricycle (sorry the new name is stupid) when booking opens in September. How did you get a ticket for £12.50? Where are they please?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 17:38:16 GMT
Love the writer - The Father was brilliant - but the prices for plays are ridiculous. Have a look at the Delfont/Macintosh website and see how Red & Imperium are doing at the moment. This one does star a couple of bona fide theatre grandees though.
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Post by showgirl on Jul 5, 2018 19:04:47 GMT
I booked for matinee on final day, 1 Dec.£12.50 absolute bargain! Will book for The Son at the Tricycle (sorry the new name is stupid) when booking opens in September. How did you get a ticket for £12.50? Where are they please? I too would love to know this, please - checked a few dates and can't find tix at £12.50 on any date. If it was in a Delmac email, I do wish they'd send them to everyone who has booked with them!
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Post by learfan on Jul 5, 2018 20:16:13 GMT
Row A in Grand Circle, i got it at the box office a few weeks ago.
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Post by showgirl on Jul 6, 2018 3:36:42 GMT
Ah, thank you. I will bide my time, then, as I'd rather sit in the stalls or dress circle and take my time choosing online.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 5, 2018 10:10:46 GMT
I've got a cheap row A grand circle seat for Saturday evening I can't make it for, if anyone's interested. Please let me know today because I'll be travelling so won't be able to phone the box office to transfer the ticket tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 11:09:49 GMT
Well. This left me a little cold I'm afraid. There's a LOT of "Oh look at me, I'm ACTING darling!" going on except from Lucy Cohu and Dame Eileen Atkins who I thought were just lovely. Eileen was probably too distracted by having to peel bags full of mushrooms throughout the play to do anything else I suppose. Does anyone still peel mushrooms? I'll drink to that. She was rather heavy handed with chopping an onion too. I don't think she had a very sharp knife.
Everyone got a bit caught out by the end of the last but one scene which resulted in a round of applause as I think people perhaps thought it had ended. Or wished that it had. Or perhaps they were simply showing their appreciation for James Hillier's sterling work at stomping around in the background chomping on an apple, I couldn't quite tell.
It's quite similar to his other plays with the same scenes being repeated but I just didn't really care a fig for any of the characters. I'd have disinherited those daughters for a start.
And someone needed to have cleaned those windows. They were filthy.
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Post by peggs on Oct 5, 2018 14:11:23 GMT
Oh @ryan I do love your posts, just needed that this afternoon, I'm sure that review is far more entertaining than actually watching it.
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Post by dani on Oct 10, 2018 10:08:37 GMT
There are some very positive reviews for this today. A friend suggested going, but then mentioned that the seats she liked were £104 each. I would rarely pay even half that.
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Post by stefy69 on Nov 1, 2018 7:07:58 GMT
Saw this yesterday and loved it ! Jonathan Pryce : what an incredible actor he is.
I would thoroughly recommend this ( if of course you can get a ticket ! )
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Post by Rory on Nov 1, 2018 17:10:32 GMT
^Sadly, ticket availability (£10 off weekdays) isn't an issue. Although it looked almost sold out when I checked a few dates on the DMT website.
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 1, 2018 17:14:20 GMT
I received my 'special offer' email from DMT just this morning.
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 2, 2018 13:25:13 GMT
And there was me thinking I'd been personally chosen to receive special treatment, as a close friend of Sir Cameron. ☹
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Post by tommy on Nov 2, 2018 20:07:57 GMT
Saw this yesterday and loved it ! Jonathan Pryce : what an incredible actor he is. I would thoroughly recommend this ( if of course you can get a ticket ! ) Looking forward to see this tomorrow afternoon!
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Post by sherriebythesea on Nov 7, 2018 10:21:22 GMT
I saw this last night and the two leads were incredible. It took me a bit to figure out where they were in story but such a thrill to be able to see Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins do their thing
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Post by mallardo on Nov 7, 2018 15:23:32 GMT
I saw this last night and the two leads were incredible. It took me a bit to figure out where they were in story but such a thrill to be able to see Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins do their thing Yes, it does take a bit of an effort to sort out what is going on in this - which is always the case with a Florian Zeller play. But because Zeller is such a master of structure things clarify at exactly the moment of maximum impact. In this one we have a death in the family but we don't know who because all of them are still there interacting with each other and one of them is undergoing the onset of dementia. The focus keeps shifting until it arrives at a poignant and masterful final scene which is so quietly devastating because we are now, at last, confronted with the truth.
It's a great cast, for sure, but the play is worthy of them.
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Post by tommy on Nov 11, 2018 20:49:15 GMT
I agree with the amazing performance of Jonathan Pryce - what an actor compared to other often different roles he created, and some of the other actors not in the least Dame Atkins, but I also agree that the very beginning of the play was less impressive, but wonderful how it all worked out later on. I was lucky to have seen this.
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Post by joem on Nov 12, 2018 20:18:45 GMT
Does anyone have experience of the boxes at the Wyndham? Specifically, one of the Royal Circle boxes is described as "slightly restricted view" and the other is "side view". Not sure which would be the better option.
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Post by orchidman on Nov 23, 2018 1:48:21 GMT
I preferred this to The Father, which I felt didn't really have anywhere to go past the halfway mark, but I find it weird that the same playwright would cover such similar ground in such short order.
This felt like it was a couple of rewrites away from fulfilling its potential, a shame because it was very promising.
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Post by duncan on Nov 23, 2018 19:17:55 GMT
SPOILER AHEAD!!
39 - The Height of the Storm - Wyndhams
Andre is dead. His family try to cope with life without him. Madeleine is dead. Her family try to cope with life without her.
It turns out that Madeleine is dead but that her husband Andre is slipping into dementia and has forgotten she has gone - fragments of the past and present collide as Andre and his two daughters try to move forward.
The first half hour or so is confusing as we get conversations between different characters that point towards different people being dead. Annoyingly this is dragged out by characters refusing to answer questions that are put to them, at one point an exasperated Pryce asks of his daughter what is going on and of course she doesn't give him a straight answer for no other reason than the author is trying to drag out his "twist" for another few minutes.
When the conversation goes along the lines of, Andre - "What is going on?" Annoying Daughter #2 "You know whats going on"
and repeat a couple of times, its annoying as hell - real people don't speak like that. If someone asks a question you answer it, only in the world of drama where you are trying to eke out your story does this happen.
Once we THANKFULLY get past this device and you work out what is actually going on then its an intimate and affecting look at how dementia impacts on one, now lonely, old man and the burden he has now become to his daughters.
Words, time and people are merged into one by his addled brain as Madeleine flits around the kitchen peeling onions and mushrooms and he doesn’t know that she is dead. We also see conversations that have taken place in the past so effectively she is still alive and indeed its a circular piece for Atkins as she starts and finishes by bringing in the messages and starts to peel some mushrooms.
We get characters with no set name to highlight the confusion of Andre (as played by Pryce) and as noted above this of course is also to make us confused alongside Andre.
Lucy Cohu comes on for a 10 minute cameo and in the confused state of mind that Andre has she flits effortlessly from scarlet woman of the past to neighbour of the present - and the show is full of timebending moments like that, we are not sure when we are or who we are. Indeed her final character "name" harks back to story that Pryce has told us earlier about mushrooms and a railway station so we don't know if the story was true and he's related it in relation to the person coming to see him or if the entire thing is a fiction that his decaying mind has made up.
Pryce flits through in an understated but outstanding way, he's on autopilot here but he has one of the best autopilots in the business. Atkins gets a magnificent "f*** OFF" moment as the devoted but now departed wife but like Pryce this isn't a career defining role - these are main roles that older actors will look to play but which wont really stretch their abilities.
Where this could do better is in the two daughters. Both characters are walking cliches that you'll have seen plenty of times in similar shows, you know the sort - one interested in her career and one interested in her love life, neither of them seemingly wanting to face the reality of the new situation. We also have the character of "The Man" who sits in the entrance hall to the kitchen for all of an act before he comes on stage and actually speaks and yet he has no reason to be there other than an odd, for me, production decision.
Nicely acted, beautifully lit but overall just a wee bit empty.
7/10 - the very definition of the word competent. Still a nice afternoon out with Pryce and Atkins for under £15.
85 minutes with no interval.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 19:31:57 GMT
A play with a twist! I like how you write about the playwright dragging out the twist. It’s such a cultural phenomenon now and I feel like writers (all formats) are sacrificing storytelling for ‘the twist’. Westworld was a great example of this. You get an “oooh” moment, but it’s fleeting, and then you realise that you barely know the characters because so much about them had to be kept back so as not to spoil ‘the twist.’ It’s getting a bit fur coat no knickers for me.
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Post by Rory on Nov 23, 2018 21:32:12 GMT
Does anyone know what the chances would be of getting an unsold seat for a decent price literally minutes before it starts on a Monday night, if you rocked up to the Box Office last minute?
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Post by orchidman on Nov 23, 2018 23:47:07 GMT
Does anyone know what the chances would be of getting an unsold seat for a decent price literally minutes before it starts on a Monday night, if you rocked up to the Box Office last minute? Worth trying the TodayTix app rush tickets from 10am on the day for £25. Some good seats come up on there.
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Post by tommy on Nov 24, 2018 10:54:25 GMT
Does anyone know what the chances would be of getting an unsold seat for a decent price literally minutes before it starts on a Monday night, if you rocked up to the Box Office last minute? I got a cheap balcony seat, booked only a couple of days before and have to say the view was really great from the balcony, so worth looking into them also if others are way too expensive.
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Post by missthelma on Nov 28, 2018 19:44:04 GMT
Finally caught up with this today. For some reason I have never seen Jonathon Pryce on stage so the chance to finally see him and his now quite prodigious eyebrows was my primary reason for going. It's difficult to know what to really say, and although you can't fault any of the immaculate acting design lighting etc, it felt a bit like observing something in a laboratory or a demonstration model. Cold is probably the best word. Glad I only paid a Today Tix rush price and would also struggle to heartily recommend it to others apart from to see two great talents at work. Eileen Atkins at 84 puts to shame people half her age
On a side note during the second 'scene', it was like being in the Brompton Chest Hospital during a TB outbreak. I know cold season is approaching so things can only get worse...
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Post by learfan on Dec 1, 2018 16:46:35 GMT
Was at today's matinee. What a treat to see two absolute titans at work. Pryce and Atkins are both very good. Ive seen all Zeller's previous plays with the exception of Truth. I have already booked for The Son at the Tricycle in February. Proper grown up drama. Nice and compact. Great set too. After seeing Fiennes and Okonedo last week, reckon they have Olivier competition now. Recommended
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Post by david on Dec 1, 2018 18:34:43 GMT
Was at today's matinee. What a treat to see two absolute titans at work. Pryce and Atkins are both very good. Ive seen all Zeller's previous plays with the exception of Truth. I have already booked for The Son at the Tricycle in February. Proper grown up drama. Nice and compact. Great set too. After seeing Fiennes and Okonedo last week, reckon they have Olivier competition now. Recommended I was at the same performance sat in one of the monkey nest seats (A5) which I thought was a bargain at £27 with a great view of the stage. I totally agree with your thoughts. A great piece of drama. Price and Atkins really were fantastic. The last scene particularly was delivered with such emotion that it really did bring a lump to my throat. I really loved the withering put downs she gave to the daughters. Though the line when she told the eldest daughter to leave in no uncertain terms was the best part as it was totally unexpected. Having watched Ant and Cleo last night and this today, I’d say it makes for an interesting time come awards season.
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Post by joem on Dec 1, 2018 21:48:11 GMT
The play was in like with what we've come to expect from Florian Zeller who, I have to say, has become over the past few years a fine addition to contemporary theatre. His work is thematically and stylistically quite narrow and always concerned with perspectives and interpretation. It will be interesting to see as time passes if he expands on this. Maybe he won't need to; plenty of playwrights crafted a career on writing distinctive plays.
But second all that's been said about Pryce and Atkins. An honour to be able to see them together on stage still at the top of their game.
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Post by learfan on Dec 1, 2018 23:00:26 GMT
The play was in like with what we've come to expect from Florian Zeller who, I have to say, has become over the past few years a fine addition to contemporary theatre. His work is thematically and stylistically quite narrow and always concerned with perspectives and interpretation. It will be interesting to see as time passes if he expands on this. Maybe he won't need to; plenty of playwrights crafted a career on writing distinctive plays. But second all that's been said about Pryce and Atkins. An honour to be able to see them together on stage still at the top of their game. Agree with you. Will be interesting to see him over the next decades to see what he produces.
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