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Post by Snciole on Oct 4, 2018 14:58:19 GMT
I had some surprise credit so I booked a ticket for the NYE matinee, which won't be as good as when I spent Valentine's Day with SRB.
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Post by peggs on Oct 4, 2018 16:21:36 GMT
I had some surprise credit so I booked a ticket for the NYE matinee, which won't be as good as when I spent Valentine's Day with SRB. Was that the lecture I failed to make your aquaintence with?
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Post by Snciole on Oct 4, 2018 17:18:46 GMT
I had some surprise credit so I booked a ticket for the NYE matinee, which won't be as good as when I spent Valentine's Day with SRB. Was that the lecture I failed to make your aquaintence with? Yes! I think I pushed my way to front row in classic fan girl behaviour.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 4, 2018 19:09:12 GMT
Got first preview seat for Dick II, what a great start of the week Apparently today is not Monday, so I must rectify my previous statement.
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Post by learfan on Oct 4, 2018 20:46:15 GMT
Going to matinee on 2 February, easy peasy.
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Post by peggs on Oct 4, 2018 21:10:22 GMT
Was that the lecture I failed to make your aquaintence with? Yes! I think I pushed my way to front row in classic fan girl behaviour. It was the student next to me who said she'd read and fully understood Hamlet at 11 that threw me. Or may the slightly strange man who asked if I was going to speak to 'the great man'. I didn't, was trying to summon up courage but he looked pretty peeved and someone trying to thrust a script on him and asked to leave, which was in itself handy as they'd locked the way i'd come in and I couldn't find me way out so skulked along after him.
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Post by Lopsided on Oct 23, 2018 15:54:54 GMT
Full casting for Richard II (wasn't sure whether to make individual thread):
Joining Simon Russell Beale as King Richard II, are Leo Bill, Martins Imhangbe, Natalie Klamar, John Mackay, Joseph Mydell, Saskia Reeves and Robin Weaver
Big fan of Richard Mackay - his Richard III was very good in Bristol a few years back. Looking forward to this.
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Post by Lopsided on Oct 23, 2018 15:57:41 GMT
....I meant, of course, John Mackay. As noted elsewhere, there have been an unseemly number of Dicks around these parts recently. Apologies.
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Post by n1david on Nov 13, 2018 10:15:16 GMT
Shipwreck is in the round, and it looks like it will be a long one with a 7pm start (matinees 1.30pm). Usual seating for Three Sisters.
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 13, 2018 10:20:20 GMT
Pleased to see that (unlike the Young Vic) they are only putting a couple of shows at a time on sale.
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 22, 2018 10:08:14 GMT
Very painless booking this morning, number 53 in the queue! Got my usual £20 seats for both. Shipwreck seems to be selling well.
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Post by zahidf on Nov 22, 2018 10:19:09 GMT
Fairly simple today, got my usual £10.00 seats with no problems
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Post by lichtie on Nov 22, 2018 11:40:25 GMT
Ditto, got a nice £20 seat for Three Sisters without any hassle.
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Post by Jan on Nov 22, 2018 12:37:06 GMT
No problem at all. Front row stalls still available. The Almeida have dramatically improved their on-line booking in the last few years.
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Post by lynette on Nov 23, 2018 13:07:07 GMT
I phoned! Three Sisters in May. I asked if they were gonna do it funny like, Three Brothers... she laughed rather nervously I thought.
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Post by learfan on Nov 23, 2018 18:11:32 GMT
You lucky lot with your flexible friends. I have wait til payday next Friday.
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Post by showgirl on Nov 23, 2018 18:58:20 GMT
I phoned! Three Sisters in May. I asked if they were gonna do it funny like, Three Brothers... she laughed rather nervously I thought. Well according to the blurb on the website, there IS a modern section. So your "wish" may come true, lynette...
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Post by lynette on Nov 23, 2018 21:52:26 GMT
Noooooo!
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Post by showgirl on Nov 24, 2018 4:49:41 GMT
Did you look before you booked, Lynette? I'd already checked, & decided nothing appealed to me, back when the season was announced, but as that was a while ago I'd forgotten all about it until people here posted about actually booking.
I haven't changed my mind but will see what early posters say about Three Sisters when the time comes. Likewise with Terry Johnson's version of Uncle Vanya at Hampstead, which starts previewing next Friday & is potentially more appealing to me - plus I much prefer Hampstead to the Almeida.
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Post by lynette on Nov 24, 2018 8:44:45 GMT
I’ve waiting for a Three Sisters. It hasn’t been on for a while and it is one of my favourites. It provides excellent roles for women. I’m hoping they don’t mess with it too much. It is already 'relevant' about the position of women and also, unusually , unfulfilled men. So right on the money.
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Post by Jan on Nov 24, 2018 10:19:32 GMT
I’ve waiting for a Three Sisters. It hasn’t been on for a while and it is one of my favourites. It provides excellent roles for women. I’m hoping they don’t mess with it too much. It is already 'relevant' about the position of women and also, unusually , unfulfilled men. So right on the money. There was a reasonable production at the Union Theatre last year. Before that the truly appalling Southwark Playhouse hatchet job where it was relocated to Dubai with references to suicide bombers not in the original. And before that in 2012 the excellent Young Vic production with Vanessa Kirby (which several here didn’t like at all).
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 24, 2018 10:21:33 GMT
The Southwark one was the one where they kept going on about how hard it was to get to Moscow despite the fact they all had iPads so could have used Expedia
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 10:32:12 GMT
I wasn't going to book anything but then I saw Fisayo Akinade was in 'Shipwreck' and caved. He's really smashing and has pretty much stolen every play I've seen him in recently.
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Post by zahidf on Nov 24, 2018 11:27:38 GMT
Patsy Ferran and Rebecca Frecknall sold "Three Sisters" to me. "Shipwreck" I just didn't feel like seeing. Ditto I'm three sisters. I got a cheap ticket for shipwreck, I'll write it off if reviews are terrible
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Post by Someone in a tree on Nov 24, 2018 15:47:11 GMT
Patsy Ferran and Rebecca Frecknall sold "Three Sisters" to me. "Shipwreck" I just didn't feel like seeing. Ditto I'm three sisters. I got a cheap ticket for shipwreck, I'll write it off if reviews are terrible If its a trainwreck of a production ?
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Post by bgarde on Nov 24, 2018 17:40:49 GMT
Ferran was so good in Summer and Smoke that I'll look forward to even a potentially modernised Three Sisters and the straightforward tenner tickets are a real bonus.
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Post by Steve on Nov 24, 2018 22:49:00 GMT
Ditto I'm three sisters. I got a cheap ticket for shipwreck, I'll write it off if reviews are terrible If its a trainwreck of a production ? If it's a "trainwreck" of a production, rather than a "shipwreck," you will be entitled to your money back under the trade descriptions act.
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Post by learfan on Dec 2, 2018 13:52:52 GMT
Just noticed there is a "warning" on the website that Richard II contains the use of latex!!!
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Post by Polly1 on Dec 2, 2018 15:11:12 GMT
Annoying that the Almeida won't give any idea of running time until after the first preview on the 10th. Even an indication such as 3 hours + or 90 mins would be helpful. Regretting booking an evening but seems little chance of being able to swap to a matinee now.
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Post by lynette on Dec 2, 2018 23:32:28 GMT
Latex? OMG
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