Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Jun 14, 2016 6:33:41 GMT
I think this new policy is fair enough - 10 years ago the tables would be used by a small number of people popping in while on the South Bank, but these days you get people using them for meetings, perching themselves all day using the free wifi, etc. Plus from the sound of it if you want to just sit and have a drink when you're not seeing a show, that's still fine.
The Royal Festival Hall does the same thing - the upstairs foyers are for ticket holders only at performance times. I wish the NFT and Barbican would do the same to be honest!
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Post by Jon on Jun 14, 2016 13:33:58 GMT
Barbican would do the same to be honest! I think anyone veering far enough off track to visit / wish to lurk in the Barbican all day is probably entitled to use place... The Barbican is so big that it's not hard to find a seat or table and as you say, it's off the beaten track so tourists rarely venture there. The Barbican cinema cafe is a great place to do work in and never too busy
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 14, 2016 16:35:36 GMT
I never want to sit in the Barbican as I like light and I'm not a vampire
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Post by theatreliker on Jun 14, 2016 16:38:17 GMT
The Plough and the Stars is going to be co-directed by Howard Davies and Jeremy Herrin. That seems an interesting pairing. Was Herrin originally on board for this?
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 17, 2016 10:42:40 GMT
Entry Pass booking opened this morning, I was all ready at about 9.25am and they warned that your beginning queue time will seem large, but will reduce once others have done their booking. 9.30am, my queue time was 39 minutes, but, as warned, that reduced and I was into the website at about 9.43am. Still managed to get a £5 front row seat for Amadeus on its press night, was the only production I had much interest in seeing this season, really. So painless & quick for me!
If it's that easy when it comes to booking for Angels in America I shall be overjoyed!! But I won't hold my breath...
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Post by Hana PlaysAndParasols on Jun 17, 2016 14:47:23 GMT
The website won't let me buy tickets any more. I enter all the card details, but then it just sends me back to the payment page again. Has anyone experienced that? The box office are not answering my e-mail, frustrating...
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Post by Hana PlaysAndParasols on Jun 17, 2016 15:47:39 GMT
The website won't let me buy tickets any more. I enter all the card details, but then it just sends me back to the payment page again. Has anyone experienced that? The box office are not answering my e-mail, frustrating... Ok they've answered me now, apologizing but making no effort whatsoever to offer any solution other than to stop buying tickets online. What a letdown.
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Post by mikey on Jun 17, 2016 19:12:39 GMT
Managed to book my U25 entry pass tickets very smoothly this morning. Was surprised! Really hope it will be the same case for when Angels in America starts booking!
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Post by AddisonMizner on Jun 19, 2016 12:56:56 GMT
When is ANGELS IN AMERICA open for booking? Don't want to miss out!
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Post by mtchairs on Jun 19, 2016 14:58:25 GMT
Just got A22 in the Circle for Amadeus for £15 through the Amex presale. That should be pretty good?
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Post by Flim Flam on Jun 19, 2016 15:18:22 GMT
Sat in that seat last week for 3p Opera. Very nice view.
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Post by mikey on Jun 19, 2016 15:53:33 GMT
When is ANGELS IN AMERICA open for booking? Don't want to miss out! I don't think a date has been announced yet (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) I'm sure once it's announced, people will be chatting about it here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 9:47:45 GMT
Not much of a wait this morning - 170 in the queue on my PC, 500ish on the laptop and straight in on my mobile! However, the decent cheap seats had gone for both of the plays I want to see, and what was left of the second price wasn't grabbing me. So I wait for deals or the next round of booking, I guess. Swithering about B4 for Amadeus... What do you reckon, Theatremonkey? Does the Roman amphitheatre effect only kick in further back?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 21, 2016 11:04:01 GMT
Circle B4? The very first seat I ever had at the National. No problems at all. Grab if you can, jeanhunt. And apocryphally the very seat that inspired one of Wham!'s greatest hits after George Michael felt on the verge of dozing off in a boring NT production in seat B3 and asked Andrew Ridgeley in B4 to rouse him at the end.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 11:35:34 GMT
Thanks Monkey. Someone had grabbed it, alas, but A4 showed up on another date I can do, so I've taken that instead.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 13:28:37 GMT
Booked for The Deep Blue Sea via Entry Pass on Friday, NT Live screening announced yesterday, I'd be travelling down from Manchester. Bugger indeed.
Choices, choices.
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Post by Jan on Jul 12, 2016 19:29:11 GMT
I wonder what Amadeus text they'll use. I saw the original NT version but the later Broadway version was substantially different.
Out of that lot I am intrigued by Red Barn but will wait for more information on it to emerge, I like the director and that may overcome my dislike of Sir David Hare (and Simenon).
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Post by Baemax on Jul 12, 2016 21:28:38 GMT
I'm waiting for the next booking period for The Red Barn. I am NOT booking a Robert Icke show before there's a running time, I've fallen for that one before!
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Post by Jan on Jul 14, 2016 8:02:58 GMT
I'm waiting for the next booking period for The Red Barn. I am NOT booking a Robert Icke show before there's a running time, I've fallen for that one before! Agree. If it's less than 3:50 I'm not going.
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Post by n1david on Jul 14, 2016 22:21:16 GMT
Mark Strong's in the Red Barn. OK, I'm booked.
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Jul 15, 2016 6:09:52 GMT
along with Hope Davis.
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Post by Snciole on Jul 15, 2016 9:36:45 GMT
I love Mark Strong, he's a sexy man but I am stubbornly waiting for more £15 tickets to appear...
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Post by lynette on Jul 15, 2016 18:54:51 GMT
I'm waiting for the next booking period for The Red Barn. I am NOT booking a Robert Icke show before there's a running time, I've fallen for that one before! Why's that then? I've booked already. How many bags of jelly babies will I need?
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Post by theatreliker on Jul 21, 2016 21:56:05 GMT
Has anyone seen The Plough and the Stars yet? Seeing it next week.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 1:20:55 GMT
Is Amadeus likely to extend into the new year?
Kind of fancy it, but it seems like there's limited availability for a lot of performances and the schedule seems to be very dispersed (I realise it's because it is in rep with Peter Pan, or whatever else will go into the Olivier) with only 2 Saturday matinees - one of which is already sold out!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jul 22, 2016 8:09:47 GMT
NT: "Additional performances to be announced"
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Post by neilmbrown on Aug 30, 2016 12:34:00 GMT
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Post by Baemax on Aug 30, 2016 13:05:56 GMT
I don't see any further performances beyond the previously announced 19th November, where are you looking?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 30, 2016 13:10:53 GMT
They were there soon after neilmbrown posted, but now they aren't! I guess the NT was entering them earlier and has now hidden them until the glorious moment of official announcement?
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Post by rumbledoll on Aug 30, 2016 13:11:20 GMT
Can't see nothing past Nov 19 either. I wish they announced the rest of the casting for Amadeus too...
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