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Post by kathryn on Feb 15, 2019 16:15:25 GMT
That's what she says!
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Post by dillan on Feb 23, 2019 12:31:43 GMT
For anyone holding out for cheaper tickets. If you're under 30, a key worker or on JSA, a tweet just went out confirming that £15 tickets will start going on sale in Feb: I’m guessing this isn’t happening anymore
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Post by David J on Feb 23, 2019 20:43:16 GMT
For anyone holding out for cheaper tickets. If you're under 30, a key worker or on JSA, a tweet just went out confirming that £15 tickets will start going on sale in Feb: I’m guessing this isn’t happening anymore Had a chat with box office staff. Any announcements has been pushed back and back but it should be happening
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Post by David J on Feb 23, 2019 20:43:44 GMT
I’m guessing this isn’t happening anymore Had a chat with box office staff. An announcement has been pushed back and back but it should be happening
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Post by mistressjojo on Feb 25, 2019 11:40:57 GMT
Just tweeted now
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 12:19:59 GMT
Zawe giving it her best Meghan Markdown there . . .
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Post by Mark on Mar 3, 2019 11:22:43 GMT
Find it a bizarre set of criteria for being eligible for the £15 tickets. I saw the previous production here about 8 years ago and don't remember much about it (except I bought one of the now extinct £5 pillar seats in the stalls). Will wait for some opinions on here before deciding.
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Post by Latecomer on Mar 3, 2019 14:15:56 GMT
I went for standing ticket at the back of Royal Cirlce for £15 in the end.....as all other hideously expensive. Seemed to be on sale for next two weeks only so far I loved those £5 pillar seats...
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 5, 2019 21:51:28 GMT
Well that was minimalist.
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Post by Rory on Mar 5, 2019 22:07:19 GMT
Well that was minimalist. Will be interested to hear your thoughts!
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Post by lynette on Mar 5, 2019 22:20:49 GMT
Well that was minimalist. We expect maxi malist for comments please. But love your style. 🤪
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Post by Steve on Mar 9, 2019 22:59:55 GMT
Saw this tonight. The expressive minimalist staging is a thing of beauty, the star of this production. Some spoilers follow. . . Jamie Lloyd's staging sculpts out everything extraneous to the shifting relationships of the three characters (the set is rarely more than two chairs, with spare characters placed precisely into the mise en scene to express the power and nature of their influence over the characters in the scene), choreographing Pinter's choreographed play as a dance. Unlike previous versions I have seen of this play, this one won't betray you if you lose concentration for a minute or two, as the visual staging speaks eloquently any words you miss: where people stand, whether they sit or stand, who is between who, who lurks behind, where they look, how fast they move, how far apart, whether they confrontationally face each other, sit aloof side to side, or touch each in intimate embrace; the blocking ever translates Pinter's fateful verbal power swings into movement, a dance. (Do pay scrupulous attention to the first scenes though. Pinter's play moves through time backwards, and this first set of scenes sets up EVERYTHING that follows). I'm loving minimalist sets and abstractly expressive staging at the minute: the Simon Stone "Medea," the Van Hove "View from the Bridge," and while this is more externally bloodless in it's meticulousness, and pared down acting style, less hysterical, more "Brief Encounter" in it's internalised anguish, than those more heightened affairs, this is nonetheless just as acutely poetically expressive. Charlie Cox evinces all the innocence and lightness he displayed in the Donmar's "Prince of Homburg," while hinting at a conspiratorial mind behind the lightness in flashes of dark hesitation, Zawe Ashton is breezily whimsical and romantic on the surface, yet suggests a lostness and sadness beneath; and star turn Tom Hiddleston is simultaneously the most civilised, urbane and controlled he's been, while welling up with visible despair and rage in the (Pinter) pauses. All the performances enhance Lloyd's dance. Tonight, betrayal spread from stage to audience, as huge swathes of the audience betrayed the actors by disappearing before the curtain call. One usher channeled Charlie Cox's innocent befuddlement, while a taller exasperated Hiddleston-like usher urbanely mused: "It's the rush for the stage door, darling." The audience joined the fateful onstage dance, betraying their love objects, while purporting to honour them. Jamie Lloyd, you open my eyes. 4 and a half stars.
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 10, 2019 8:53:02 GMT
Any news on possible dayseats please? Sorry if it has already been answered here before - a bit short for time turning over 15+ pages now..
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Post by Mark on Mar 10, 2019 8:56:12 GMT
Any news on possible dayseats please? Sorry if it has already been answered here before - a bit short for time turning over 15+ pages now.. No dayseats but check out one page back has the details of the under 30/key workers rush.
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 10, 2019 14:24:24 GMT
Thanks, Mark! I’m afraid I’m not under 30 anymore...
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Post by crowblack on Mar 14, 2019 9:06:57 GMT
under 30/key workers rush. Also only good if you live locally to London because you can't get advance train or coach tickets.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 10:42:45 GMT
Well he hasn't cut the hair sadly but Hiddles is rocking a tight top for his fans. I'm more of a Cox man myself (fnar) and he's looking suitably foxy. Nice to see Meghan Markdown still doing a bit of acting in between her royal duties too.
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Post by kathryn on Mar 14, 2019 11:25:30 GMT
I swear that’s the same blue jumper he had been wearing for the past 2 years - or one very like it. It’s like a running joke now!
Pleased to see good reviews for this - mainly 4 stars, with a couple of 3s.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 14, 2019 12:26:49 GMT
if you are too poor to travel £15 plus far-in-advance tickets at £17 each way is do-able. To advance book with only a few day's notice would cost £45 each way or even more.
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Post by lonlad on Mar 14, 2019 12:39:42 GMT
5 stars from Shenton, Time Out, and The Independent --- and me. Of the dozen or so BETRAYALs I've seen over the years, this is easily the most moving and also the most exquisite to look at. An absolute triumph in pretty much every way. Charlie Cox hands down the best Jerry I have seen in a fiendishly difficult role, and Hiddleston really is amazing: humanising a part that the script presents as fairly monstrous.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 12:45:03 GMT
5 stars from Shenton, Time Out, and The Independent --- and me. Of the dozen or so BETRAYALs I've seen over the years, this is easily the most moving and also the most exquisite to look at. An absolute triumph in pretty much every way. Charlie Cox hands down the best Jerry I have seen in a fiendishly difficult role, and Hiddleston really is amazing: humanising a part that the script presents as fairly monstrous. . . . and Zawe Ashton? Seems a shame to not mention the third actor in a play with only three characters. Yes, I know there's also a waiter in it before everyone jumps down my throat.
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Post by learfan on Mar 14, 2019 17:17:02 GMT
5 stars from Shenton, Time Out, and The Independent --- and me. Of the dozen or so BETRAYALs I've seen over the years, this is easily the most moving and also the most exquisite to look at. An absolute triumph in pretty much every way. Charlie Cox hands down the best Jerry I have seen in a fiendishly difficult role, and Hiddleston really is amazing: humanising a part that the script presents as fairly monstrous. . . . and Zawe Ashton? Seems a shame to not mention the third actor in a play with only three characters. Yes, I know there's also a waiter in it before everyone jumps down my throat. You wish!
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 14, 2019 20:12:37 GMT
Going on Monday. I shall be erect at the back of the Royal Circle for the entire occasion - £15 standing, a busman's holiday for someone in my job!
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Post by Jonnyboy on Mar 14, 2019 22:15:01 GMT
Going on Monday. I shall be erect at the back of the Royal Circle for the entire occasion! So which of the actors do you fancy?
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 15, 2019 10:36:05 GMT
Pinter, of course!
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 15, 2019 11:00:18 GMT
Pinter was a fox, let's be honest. Anyone who's seen it, could you tell us: {Spoiler - click to view} which kid appears in this production? Is it the daughter or the son?
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Post by jess173 on Mar 15, 2019 12:12:55 GMT
@mrscondomine It’s the daughter. She appears in the kitchen scene, where Jerry is playing with her and throwing her up in the air. Then she spends a couple of minutes on Toms lap (lucky girl 😜) before he carries her offstage.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 15, 2019 12:16:46 GMT
Thank you jess173 ! I thought it might be the other one {because...} there's that question over his paternity. But Charlotte makes more sense I guess as she's the connecting thread through some of the scenes.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2019 12:17:12 GMT
Pinter was a fox, let's be honest. Anyone who's seen it, could you tell us: {Spoiler - click to view}which kid appears in this production? Is it the daughter or the son? {Spoiler - click to view}Only the daughter. Quite a long scene of them sleeping together on a chair. Though they were casting for a 4yr old mixed race boy to play the son, so I'm not sure what happened.
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Post by jess173 on Mar 15, 2019 12:21:39 GMT
@mrscondomine: The paternity question is in there too when Emma confesses to Robert about the affair. Robert questions his paternity because the timelines overlap but Emma ensures him that the boy is his because Jerry was in New York when the boy was conceived. But it’s all just talking without the actual child.
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