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Post by Honoured Guest on May 18, 2017 8:43:34 GMT
I am lucky dipping (it's like skinny dipping but riskier) at LoG on Saturday matinee. Has anybody done this yet? As I understand it, the lucky dippers wait until the last minute and are then all seated, but I don't know which areas are being set aside for them? I presume it can't be returned tickets and they might have set some aside in advance but I could be wrong. Any thoughts? "Lucky Dip Tickets Your ticket location will be revealed as you enter the auditorium. Please note - this may be a standing position or the best seat in the house."
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 18, 2017 8:34:07 GMT
Yes Tobacco Factory standard is usually good. I go to Bristol if they are doing a rarer play and see them in London if not on the rare occasions they transfer something. Wilton's I have a problem with though - more on that later. Othello is a co-production with English Touring Theatre and is directed by Richard Twyman, the incoming artistic director of ETT. Hence, this tour to London, which has replaced the customary West Country tour by Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 21:03:01 GMT
It's sort of too good for a touring show in some aspects But too meagre for the WE Identity crisis It's the annual tour produced by Music & Lyrics Ltd and so should be to a high standard. www.musicandlyricslimited.com/about-us/
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 17:42:57 GMT
Also priority booking online, but rarely a discount. That sounds like a good benefit, particularly if it applies for all productions, because it gives students a better chance (for free) of purchasing the cheaper tickets to the popular productions.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 17:31:06 GMT
on the train home from Woyzeck last night I saw David Hunter of Kinky Boots fame, He was creepily charming in Crossroads.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 17:27:08 GMT
The info about the play on the ATG Tickets website doesn't make the play seem of especial interest to Under 25s.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 17:22:56 GMT
I think ROH knows their demographic is not young people OR those without money to burn and they price accordingly. Have you looked into the special offers if you join ROH Students for free? Maybe not applicable to Don Carlo because it's so popular with the core audience of The Royal Opera.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 13:25:37 GMT
Why not start a thread on the subject in "General Chat"?
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 12:10:24 GMT
I felt quite a fool because I was sitting next to a famous person (people kept asking her for photos) but I had no idea who she was...eek! The only description I can give was 60-70 years old, white woman, huge hair and eccentric dress sense. Theresa May.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 12:09:22 GMT
It was just fabulous!!! All the three Judys were insatiable. Oh.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 12:04:21 GMT
Tickets on sale as follows:
Souffle & Chocoholic Members - Monday 22nd May Brownie Members - Wednesday 24th May Cupcake Members - Friday 26th May Greggs Customers - Tuesday 30th May
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 17, 2017 11:58:44 GMT
I've seen it It's about 2 hours of Edward Fox as Bentjamen Brittain sitting around remiscing. John Betjeman (poet), not Bentjamen Brittain (fictional character?) or Benjamin Britten (gay composer).
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 16, 2017 23:52:34 GMT
Running time is 2 1/2 hours including interval (we were out just before 10) For those many of you who like to remind us how you so love to get home early from the theatre, there are two weeks of Woyzeck mid-run which start half an hour early at 7.00pm, allowing The Old Vic to schedule a second, music, show each night.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 16, 2017 23:44:01 GMT
Take a look at some of the prices- 35 pounds for a standing ticket for Nitin Sawhney..! It's a music gig, not a play. And it's in the Globe Theatre, not the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. And on your ticket pricing point, standing is preferable to seated at gigs.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 16, 2017 16:11:12 GMT
Friday Rush is a separate initiative, and there are Friday Rush tickets for everything in all three theatres.
Travelex productions are never in the Dorfman because the capacity is too small to make the productions available to enough people.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 16, 2017 15:51:02 GMT
Travelex sponsors four or five NT productions each year which have lower ticket prices than the other NT productions, and have many tickets priced at £15. The design budgets of these productions is less than on other shows.
It used to be that most of these Travelex productions were very popular, and the scheme was devised to attract a wider audience to the NT by lowering the cost barrier. But Ugly Lies the Bone has struggled for an audience and Salome has been a critical disaster, and not much liked on this forum either.
So I was preparing for the worst with Common. Which is perhaps unfair, but that's the fault of the NT's recent Travelex track record.
"It's your national theatre" was an advertising slogan that the NT used about thirty years ago.
Of course, Common might be good. It's a Jeremy Herrin Headlong play.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 16, 2017 15:01:05 GMT
This is the next NT Travelex show, following on from Ugly Lies the Bone and Salome.
It's your national theatre.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 16, 2017 11:20:06 GMT
Enjoyed this last night at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, on my first visit there. The stand-out feature, for me, is the dance by Aakash Odedra and his company. I'm kicking myself that I haven't seen them before when they've performed several times here in SouthEast Wales. I'll certainly go to see them in future. The music is very pleasurable but I slightly regretted that I couldn't properly focus on the Indian instrumental soloists, as I would in a normal concert, because there's so much else going on in an opera. I hope you all also enjoy it at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday, which is virtually sold-out. Now to challenge my Penalty Charge Notice which was issued to me in error, to the best of my understanding.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 14, 2017 13:50:17 GMT
Well worth seeing, if Mold is within reach. A full-on production of the play with lashings of freshness. I agree very much with the attached review, which praises in detail, but would advise not reading it before seeing the show. Recommended! www.asiw.co.uk/reviews/importance-earnest-theatr-clwyd-mold
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 14, 2017 11:05:04 GMT
Judi Dench?
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 14, 2017 11:00:10 GMT
Emi, you've pushed me over the edge. I do now plan to see it, hopefully this week, and will read your review afterwards!
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 14, 2017 10:51:33 GMT
If I manage it amid deadlines I'm downing in I'm going to 'Golf Course War Machine' at RWCMD, a friend wrote it and the director is directing a play of mine so I'm hoping to get to support them. Thanks for reminding me about that! It's performed by Melanie Stevens who was deliciously intimidating, from the audience participation point of view, in The Memo for Big Loop last year and who I remember as a lively Autolycus in The Winter's Tale (which had Edward Bluemel as Leontes) at RWCMD.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 14, 2017 10:32:42 GMT
Sukanya (Royal Opera / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Curve) at Symphony Hall, Birmingham - World premiere production of Ravi Shankar's first opera.
How My Light is Spent (Royal Exchange / Sherman / Theatre by the Lake) at the Sherman - New play by Alan Harris about phone sex in Newport.
Y Tŵr (Music Theatre Wales / Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru) at the Sherman - World premiere production of Guto Puw's first opera, opening the annual Vale of Glamorgan Festival of music by living composers.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 12, 2017 21:22:38 GMT
Last November's Royal Court at 60 gala celebration included an extract from Rita, Sue and Bob Too. It has stood the test of time very well, although it's completely different from today's new theatre at the Royal Court. Out of Joint have revived it before, but last time they toured smaller theatres, including Soho Theatre for the London performances, and played it in a double bill with a new play, A State Affair, by Robin Soans. This tour is to larger theatres such as Bristol Old Vic. It's good that the Royal Court is restaging some of its heritage, with Road in the summer directed by John Tiffany and then Rita, Sue and Bob Too in January.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 12, 2017 10:24:17 GMT
I'm going to London on December 5th, do you guys think this will still be on by then? It will still be on but Follies will then be on for only about half the week, on average, sharing the Olivier Theatre with St George and the Dragon. We don't know the schedule yet, so we don't know if Follies will be on on any particular date.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 12, 2017 10:19:50 GMT
Directed by Patrick Marber.
I saw the movie in the cinema and it held my attention but I forgot it afterwards.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 12, 2017 10:03:00 GMT
so perhaps they're slightly aging up Pinocchio That would explain the moustache.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 11, 2017 15:53:35 GMT
Might catch this in Northampton. It's in the Derngate, (not the Royal).
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 11, 2017 15:25:03 GMT
The entire Bridge Theatre is onsale for Richard Thompson - stalls and all three galleries - in the end on configuration being used in the rest of the week for Young Marx. I've seen and heard Richard Thompson live many times over the years, often solo. He keeps things fresh, always giving his many fans a reason to see each tour, while also always referring back to some of his vast back catalogue. A lot of the fans are of his generation but not all of them by any means.
He's a singer-songwriter and in his early years was a folk reviver with the folk-rock movement. On the Fairport Convention front, he's on the bill again this August at the annual Fairport's Cropredy Convention where I once made an appearance selling homemade sandwiches in aid of a local church's fabric fund. We sold out and packed up the van just before Fairport Convention closed that year's festival with a set lasting two and a half hours - my introduction to the world of folk-rock! This was in the old days, before Health & Safety, when we just roped in a gaggle of willing volunteer old ladies to make the sandwiches on our home kitchen table, and there was no thought of any curfew (unlike nowadays) so the music ended at 2.00am.
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Post by Honoured Guest on May 11, 2017 13:14:44 GMT
It was a newly discovered Shakespearean history play which astonishingly foretold our present royal family.
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