King Lear - Kenneth Branagh - Wyndham's

I got my tickets for this.

Wouldn't they have announced if it's a one man version. It would be a unqiue and fascinating production and a major selling point.

Re the ticket price comment further up this thread - I think it's worth bearing in mind (as a wider point) that west end casts and crew just secured a 16.5% pay rise and that money is going to have to come from somewhere, and I can assure you the only place it will come from is the ticket prices

Just worth highlighting. That money is only going to come from one place: the ticket buying public.

£175 for "premium" seats, £150, £125 for best stalls/dress front. However, if you know the Wyndhams, the price difference between stalls row D and E is not an extra £40 per ticket. My advice is to aim for the £85 bracket if this is affordable to you. I appreciate that prices are high these days for most shows so apologise if I'm generalising a little about pricing - as we know, times are tight for many.

Thanks ceebee! Yes, I reckon an £85 seat will do fine - though I could probably stretch to £125 if the (slightly) cheaper ones have gone on the dates I can do. (I rarely go to the theatre now, so the money saved helps a bit with the post-Covid increase in prices for things I really want to see.)

Well that was painless

Signed up for priority booking to book at noon today. Anyone know how we book? Not clear on the website. Thanks.

Hope all the emails have now arrived. I got mine at noon, had a half hour queue but easily got the ticket I wanted. There seemed to be plenty of availability and prices I think slightly higher than Long Day's Journey into Night, £5 higher for my ticket.

Shouldn’t really use phones in work, but as I was finishing at half past I nipped off to one of the few areas with a signal and clicked on the link, just to get a place in the queue. Was expecting 12000 or for it to sell out, but was number 1030. By I got back online there were only about 70 people in front and was booked within a couple of minutes.

Booking was a bit slow but otherwise very impressed with how smoothly it all went.

Got my email at 12.40 as well. At that point I was 478 in the queue and told queue would take about 40 minutes. Actually moved quite quickly and got to the front in about 25 minutes, but having been told it was my turn and that I would now be redirected to the booking pages - I wasn't and was just told my session had been timed out. So had to start all over again at the back of the queue where I was 1600 +. Another 35 minutes wait but finally got in and booked.

At least the queue is moving quicker than predicted and as of 20 minutes ago there did seem to be reasonable availability, albeit maybe not at the lower prices.

I know I can go way more than two hours without needing to use the bathroom, but why is it whenever it's a show with no interval I panic and think I need to go within minutes 🤣

Gloucester's eyes will be prepped.