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Post by skullion on Jan 30, 2020 20:44:32 GMT
I saw it last Saturday, enjoyed it. Agree on the stage height, I was row D in the circle with a todaytix rush ticket and almost felt I was at stage height!
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Post by skullion on Jan 26, 2020 0:07:38 GMT
Fairly sure I saw Mackenzie Crook at Uncle Vanya this afternoon. Then saw Gregory Doran going in through the stage door at Kunene and the King, he had a Donmar programme in his hand so I presume he had been to see the play Teenage Dick while A.Sher was doing his thing on stage!
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Post by skullion on Dec 9, 2018 17:54:32 GMT
Can't say I especially enjoyed the audience/staff at Pinter Three and Four yesterday. Seemed across both performances, where I was near the back of the stalls, that there was barely a moment where there wasn't loud eating, whispering, the clank of bottles filling up glasses, phones going off, doors to the bar area being opened and closed, glassed being clanked together and maybe some cashing up going on. It almost felt like part of some installation piece to accompany what was happening on the stage (this bit seemed to be largely irrelevant to a number of people who'd come along!).
In the interest of balance though, there was a family near me with two teenage lads, given Pinter isn't that most accessible thing in the world, they barely made a peep through the afternoon performance even though I did hear one at the interval saying he found it a bit confusing.
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Post by skullion on Sept 25, 2018 19:39:55 GMT
The live animal on stage is not good news at all, I was quite looking forward to this but having second thoughts. How long is it on stage for?
Maybe a petition to replace it with a bit of garden hose could work!
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Post by skullion on Sept 12, 2018 18:53:40 GMT
Thanks for the help all, I'd like to see as many of these as possible just balancing price vs managing a diary!
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Post by skullion on Sept 11, 2018 20:12:49 GMT
Not to sound thick but I've seen on the ATG site that there are front row tickets available for £15 for the first two groups of plays in this run, but both on here and the Pinter at the Pinter site there are references to £15 tickets being for Keyworkers aged under 30. When I was looking today, the actual ticket sale site didn't suggest there were any restrictions on buying these tickets but it did seem you had to collect them from the venue rather than being able to have them posted.
My question is, are these £15 tickets available for all or are there restrictions on who can buy them? I wouldn't want to get to the theatre on the day and find that I'm going to be prevented from collecting them because I've not met some criteria I wasn't aware of. Hopefully I've not missed anything on here, did try to look through the thread before positing this.
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Post by skullion on Jun 22, 2018 15:29:22 GMT
Just back from the cinema screening of An Ideal Husband and really enjoyed it. Have to agree with all the comments about Freddie Fox, he was the stand out performance, but also really liked Frances Barber and Sally Bretton. I also thought that the difference in the ages of the actors for the ages they were supposed to be didn't quite make sense but it was so good that it didn't really matter. The cinema was more or less sold out, just the odd seat empty, but the age demographic was ancient. I'm over 60 and I think I was one of the younger members of the audience. Have people who have seen this in the theatre find it was the same? I saw the matinee of this yesterday, I'd say the average age was about 168 in the first half rising to 173 because a couple, possibly in their late 20s/early 30s, left at the interval. A lot of empty seats, certainly towards the backs of the stalls, that led to a lovely game of musical chairs when the thing started. Never let it be said the youth dont don't know how to behave in the theatre, that mob yesterday would have given anyone a run for their money!
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Post by skullion on Jun 20, 2018 21:36:53 GMT
Tim McInnerny At Sea Wall at the Old Vic tonight.
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Post by skullion on May 26, 2018 8:49:29 GMT
Been a few times and always found it a good night out, and given the location and the talent on show, very good value. I'm going to see them at the Globe later in the year, not seen them there before so should be different!
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Post by skullion on Apr 8, 2018 0:52:38 GMT
Ben Kingsley at The Secret Theatre at the SWP tonight. Dave Hill (the actor not the guitarist from Slade!) at Young Marx this afternoon. Have to confess although I recognised him straight away I didn't actually know his name! Saw Dave Hill again at The Bridge for Julius Caesar again this afternoon!
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Post by skullion on Jan 29, 2018 7:00:45 GMT
Yikes, at that sort of duration I'd better gor for a seat for this one then and not the standing option I often go for at Wyndhams! You've not seen O"Neill before then? His plays are never short. No, first time for me.
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Post by skullion on Jan 28, 2018 21:14:56 GMT
Yikes, at that sort of duration I'd better gor for a seat for this one then and not the standing option I often go for at Wyndhams!
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Post by skullion on Jan 20, 2018 20:05:21 GMT
I saw it this afternoon, fine as far as it went, again only paid £10 for a restricted view seat behind a pillar but didn't feel I missed anything. Two ladies approaching the 'living legend' time of life either side of me didn't come back for the second half, don't know if that was to do with me, the play or both. Have to admit it did briefly cross my mind to leave at half time which isn't something I would normally do. Don't know if not being very familiar with the original series affected my enjoyment or not but it didn't really grab me. I was glad I stayed to the end but I don't think anyone who passes on this one is going to miss a great deal.
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Post by skullion on Jan 15, 2018 20:56:20 GMT
I stand corrected for clumsy grammar. I liked him in Frasier but not sure I'd see him as Titus
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Post by skullion on Jan 14, 2018 21:04:51 GMT
There were several empty seats in the front row of the stalls yesterday which slightly surprised me given those are usually pretty cheap. I'm not sure if they deliberately left them empty for the bits when the cast were sat in them or interacting with the audience.
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Post by skullion on Jan 14, 2018 19:35:55 GMT
Thanks for the responses, do you think putting it on in a bigger space like the Barbican led them to thinking they had to add more humour to it, or was that just a mis-step that might have happened with this director wherever it was performed?
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Post by skullion on Jan 14, 2018 11:51:30 GMT
I saw this yesterday afternoon, I didn't realise until I'd got home that we'd had an understudy playing the role of Aaron. I'm not use he was any stronger in the role than the main actor apparently was.
I don't have any history with this play, never seen it before on stage or screen and aside from a bare bones knowledge of the plot didn't know much more about it. On that basis I quite enjoyed it, I liked David Troughton's performance, and across this season I thought Martin Hutson has been good. The play itself seems a bit mad but that is what it is.
I didn't care for the dance fighting at the start, added nothing to the story and just looked a bit rubbish, I can't say I'm ever a fan of audience participation either.
So, having seen some less than glowing comments about this production, I'm curious to know what a good production of this play does look like, and what else should have been changed in this to make it better?
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Post by skullion on Dec 20, 2017 0:13:41 GMT
I'd agree with that, im not sure that final scene added a great deal and the audience reaction might have been more enthusiastic if it had ended there.
James Norton's flies were undone for quite a bit of the performance tonight, was that deliberate or just an old fashioned wardrobe malfunction?!
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Post by skullion on Dec 16, 2017 23:55:29 GMT
Ben Kingsley at The Secret Theatre at the SWP tonight. Dave Hill (the actor not the guitarist from Slade!) at Young Marx this afternoon. Have to confess although I recognised him straight away I didn't actually know his name!
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Post by skullion on Dec 14, 2017 21:00:38 GMT
What are people's views on this, I can remember seeing one or two of them at school and finding them a bit cheap looking but that was looking with teenage eyes. Interested to hear if people think thus is a set worth buying now.
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Post by skullion on Nov 21, 2017 22:44:40 GMT
Is there something about this play that attracts bad audience behaviour? Whilst I fortunately didn't see anything like the awful situation described here, the whole atmosphere in the audience on Saturday night was unlike anything I can remember before. The amount of talking (even one instance of someone shouting out), loud eating, phones going off, people getting up and leaving their seats and coming back in during scenes was far more than I can ever remember happening at anything else. When I got outside afterwards, I heard one person shouting "That was b*ll*cks" (actually think he was one of the people I saw getting up and going out during the second half). At the time I just assumed it was because it was Saturday night in the west end and people turned up having had a few too many beforehand but I'm starting to wonder now.
Is this one of those situations where people have booked to see a star name without giving any thought to the fact that are going to need to sit through a play; the ushers not getting a grip on people behaving disruptively or was it just bad luck that there have been less well behaved audiences on two separate nights but it's been fine the rest of the time? I don't want to give too much away about the structure of the play for those that haven't seen it, but it was less conventional with the curtain coming down after each segment in the first half, seemed to confuse a lot of people.
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Post by skullion on Nov 20, 2017 20:36:16 GMT
This is a bit of a weird question but hopefully someone who has seen this version can help. I booked to see this at the Barbican without taking my ridiculous phobia of snakes into account. Being the sort of moron I am, I also booked a front row seat because why wouldn't you go for the front row for a play that features the thing you are most afraid of in the world!
So my question is, is the asp featured in this visible, and if it is, how realistic are we talking? To give some context, I can't even see a photo of one without getting fairly freaked out. Any replies would be appreciated.
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Post by skullion on Nov 19, 2017 19:29:39 GMT
I should clarify, when I say I was rooting for the actor I mean in the sense I was wanting him to deliver the type of performance you are describing, not sure if that makes sense. This was my stage Coriolanus though so it's interesting to hear how others have approached the role.
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Post by skullion on Nov 19, 2017 13:38:17 GMT
That was my feeling as well, I'm not sure I've ever found myself in a theatre where I've found myself rooting for the actor rather than the character as in this version. Unfortunately I think he came up a bit short, he's not someone I've seen on stage before, maybe the role just came at the wrong time for him.
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Post by skullion on Nov 19, 2017 13:20:55 GMT
Not a great audience in general at Glengarry Glen Ross last night. One person seemed to be indulging in a particularly prolonged, vigorous bout of sex masochism with a tin of crisps/peanuts or whatever it was they couldn't go a whole 50 minutes without eating. Several mobile phones going off, someone, somewhere behind me piped in at almost normal speaking voice volume "Oh it's him from (didn't catch the name of the programme". Earth shattering as this revelation was, you'd think this is something that the person could have held onto to the interval to share with their companion. I'm fairly sure that someone in the stalls called out an answer to a question Stanley Townsend's character posed to Christian Slater.
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Post by skullion on Nov 19, 2017 10:35:15 GMT
I agree, I saw it from the front row and enjoyed it.
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Post by skullion on Nov 17, 2017 20:23:49 GMT
This is really bugging me... Last night at Kith and Kin at The Bush there was a striking looking actor who I've seen in a few productions over the years (many NT I think.) He was tallish, in his 70s I would think, with long white hair and full white beard. He was a dead ringer for Gandalf or Lear (definitely not McKellan or David Weston, though!) Any ideas who it could be? Could be David Warner but I've not seen him with a beard before.
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Post by skullion on Nov 12, 2017 21:50:18 GMT
Thanks for the updates all, it was funny when I'd listened to the Costello version it didn't quite sound right but I just put it down to my faulty memory!
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Post by skullion on Nov 6, 2017 21:06:11 GMT
I'm not sure you absolutely need to know much about it before hand, I didn't know a huge amount and didn't feel I missed out for it. They explain who most of the key characters are through the play and the programme has a couple of decent interviews with some of the key players.
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Post by skullion on Oct 30, 2017 7:54:11 GMT
Bit of a long shot but does anyone know the name of the song that was played at the end, as in after the lights have gone up? It might be a different song each evening I suppose but it's been bugging me for a few days! Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding Thanks!
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