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Post by emilytemple on Sept 21, 2023 14:26:25 GMT
there are ome ticket , most of 80 plus pounds n there are Royal Circle (Standing) anyone was here?
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Post by andrew on Sept 21, 2023 20:19:57 GMT
The Royal Circle standing is really good value for money.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 21, 2023 22:26:39 GMT
Did the standing for A Little Life - I don't remember the numbered spot, I think it's like the Donmar where you just pick a spot on arrival. Won't be buying a standing until we know how long it is though! You stood for 4 hours?!!!! Bravo to you for that
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Post by vernongersh on Sept 21, 2023 22:37:27 GMT
what are the chances that this will extend?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 21, 2023 23:08:54 GMT
what are the chances that this will extend? It can’t, the Jez Butterworth play opens there in January
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Post by Rory on Sept 21, 2023 23:19:05 GMT
what are the chances that this will extend? It can’t, the Jez Butterworth play opens there in January Any more details on that, like title?
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 23:33:40 GMT
Did the standing for A Little Life - I don't remember the numbered spot, I think it's like the Donmar where you just pick a spot on arrival. Won't be buying a standing until we know how long it is though! You stood for 4 hours?!!!! Bravo to you for that It was £15 and I wasn't sure I'd manage the whole thing as it's intense so I went for it....it's a slog but worth it for the price
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Post by A.Ham on Sept 22, 2023 13:24:14 GMT
Just caved in and bought a standing ticket as I really don't want to miss this. Both those and the ridiculously-priced stalls seats are selling (a couple of dates are showing as sold out again now) so it feels like the only way I'm going to see this without breaking the bank. Will carry on keeping an eye out for any affordable seats popping up though!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 23, 2023 9:56:59 GMT
It can’t, the Jez Butterworth play opens there in January Any more details on that, like title? I don’t know the title I’m afraid!
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Post by Rory on Sept 23, 2023 10:26:38 GMT
Any more details on that, like title? I don’t know the title I’m afraid! Thanks, time will tell!
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Post by jakobo on Oct 1, 2023 12:53:07 GMT
Does anyone know if they will do rush in person?
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Post by gigi on Oct 3, 2023 15:56:59 GMT
Hi all, just to let you know I still have a ticket available on the noticeboard for the Lyonesse matinee on Saturday 25th November – sadly, rail replacements mean I just can’t make it anymore.
Listed for £45 but I am open to offers. Appreciate I’m a new poster (am a long term lurker and actually found out about this play on here) - happy to provide proof of purchase etc. if anyone is interested.
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Post by Mark on Oct 13, 2023 11:39:22 GMT
Definitely no extension. Drag panto between Xmas and new year.
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Post by mkb on Oct 17, 2023 11:59:25 GMT
If anyone is going tonight, could you report back on actual coming-out time please? (I have trains to book for Thursday.)
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Post by Mark on Oct 17, 2023 12:37:22 GMT
If anyone is going tonight, could you report back on actual coming-out time please? (I have trains to book for Thursday.) Atg is listing 2.5 hrs
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Post by mkb on Oct 17, 2023 13:06:50 GMT
If anyone is going tonight, could you report back on actual coming-out time please? (I have trains to book for Thursday.) Atg is listing 2.5 hrs Thanks - very helpful. How did you find that though? Where the running time should appear, www.atgtickets.com/shows/lyonesse/harold-pinter-theatre/ simply has "This show has an interval". Is there a a different ATG resource I should know about?
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Post by Mark on Oct 17, 2023 13:13:36 GMT
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Post by mkb on Oct 17, 2023 13:17:26 GMT
Excellent thanks.
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Post by A.Ham on Oct 18, 2023 9:46:50 GMT
Rows B and C of the stalls finally put on sale - although they’re pretty pricey (unsurprisingly!).
Think I’ll stick with my standing ticket.
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Post by Rory on Oct 18, 2023 10:09:43 GMT
Sorry to be that guy but can anyone who has been say whether it's a high stage or not. Wondering about the new tickets in the first 2 rows which are steep in price.
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Post by sophie92 on Oct 18, 2023 17:17:58 GMT
Sign outside the theatre tonight says 2 hours 50 including the interval.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 18, 2023 17:32:59 GMT
Sorry to be that guy but can anyone who has been say whether it's a high stage or not. Wondering about the new tickets in the first 2 rows which are steep in price. You could check on SeatPlan, but if I'm not wrong the stage is a little high. Not Haymarket high, but some neck-craning might be involved
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Post by sophie92 on Oct 18, 2023 21:54:21 GMT
Sorry to be that guy but can anyone who has been say whether it's a high stage or not. Wondering about the new tickets in the first 2 rows which are steep in price. From my seat in row F, it looked like the stage was at about top of the head height for those in the front row. I think there was a bit of a gap between the stage and the front row, so I don’t think it would be too much neck strain. Regarding my earlier post about the running time, it got out at about 22:30 tonight. Scene changes really added to the length.
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Post by Rory on Oct 18, 2023 23:13:47 GMT
Thanks to you both for your replies.
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Post by theatre22 on Oct 19, 2023 18:41:11 GMT
I’ve just booked an end of front row seat for £25 next week and there are some for £32.50 which are more central. Have the prices of these come down to reflect a more restricted view or were they always this price? I was front row for Dr Semmelweis and the view for that wasn’t too bad as there was a bit of a gap before the stage but seems to change with each production.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 19, 2023 19:06:44 GMT
The theatre cafe need to start selling T-shirts saying HOW HIGH IS THE STAGE?
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Post by Mark on Oct 19, 2023 19:18:12 GMT
I’ve just booked an end of front row seat for £25 next week and there are some for £32.50 which are more central. Have the prices of these come down to reflect a more restricted view or were they always this price? I was front row for Dr Semmelweis and the view for that wasn’t too bad as there was a bit of a gap before the stage but seems to change with each production. I think you've just gotten very lucky with the dynamic pricing
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Post by mkb on Oct 19, 2023 20:12:16 GMT
I’ve just booked an end of front row seat for £25 next week and there are some for £32.50 which are more central. Have the prices of these come down to reflect a more restricted view or were they always this price? I was front row for Dr Semmelweis and the view for that wasn’t too bad as there was a bit of a gap before the stage but seems to change with each production. I've just been down to the front row, and, for all but the shortest people, it gives an excellent view. Eyes are just above the slightly sloping plane of the stage floor. Loads of legroom too.
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Post by Rory on Oct 19, 2023 20:37:35 GMT
I’ve just booked an end of front row seat for £25 next week and there are some for £32.50 which are more central. Have the prices of these come down to reflect a more restricted view or were they always this price? I was front row for Dr Semmelweis and the view for that wasn’t too bad as there was a bit of a gap before the stage but seems to change with each production. I've just been down to the front row, and, for all but the shortest people, it gives an excellent view. Eyes are just above the slightly sloping plane of the stage floor. Loads of legroom too. That's super! Thanks for checking! Will be interested to hear your thoughts on the play.
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Post by mkb on Oct 19, 2023 23:14:17 GMT
Some poor soul decided to throw themselves under a train at Leighton Buzzard earlier today. If it's possible to set that tragedy aside without seeming crass, the attendant knock-on effects meant it was touch-and-go whether we'd make the Pinter for curtain up. Despite an 85-minute arrival delay, we just made it, only to find the usual queue to enter the ATG venue. (Why do this group never employ sufficient staff for the cursory bag checks?, and why do they make those of us without bags queue in the same line?) I say all that to indicate that my mindset, settling down to enjoy Penelope Skinner's latest feminist piece, was of high stress. That probably helped me to appreciate better the mental conflict being endured by Lily James' Kate, working at the all-female Lilith Entertainment, a high-pressure film production company helmed by Doon Mackichan's Sue.
I know Sue. I've seen this type of woman a lot in business. They say all the right things, but they're the principal reason women are held back while men's careers flourish. Whether they are knowingly misogynistic I don't know, but they enable misogyny better than any male. Mackichan absolutely nails Sue and has lines in the opening eight-minute scene that veer between genuinely comic to others that chill in their accuracy of female disempowerment.
In scene two, we meet Kate's husband (James Corrigan, also excellent). He's the counterpoint to Sue, and also a familiar character, that liberal-minded man whose feminist credentials stretch only as far as lip-service if it affects him personally.
Kate is to meet Elaine, a former actress, recently discovered to have been living a reclusive existence in Cornwall for the past thirty years, in a property called Lyonesse (named after a Thomas Hardy poem). Her task is to gain Elaine's trust, find out why she vanished (her suspected #MeToo story), and prepare a treatment for a possible movie deal.
The Lyonesse of the poem is a land in folklore stretching out from Cornwall to the Scilly Isles that was washed away by the sea, and Lyonesse the house is threatened by a similar fate should a sufficiently powerful storm arise.
The set-up so far is quite delicious, and I was looking forward to what was to follow. On to Lyonesse, and enter stage right Kristin Scott Thomas as Norma Desmond, sorry I mean Elaine, (but the parallels are clear). This is where I ran into trouble. Scott Thomas is a superb actress, but I am not sure she has quite found Elaine yet. She's not eccentric enough, and Elaine's performance in the play-within-a-play suggests she, Elaine, was a pretty poor stage actress, which is inconsistent with the narrative. (At least Desmond had the excuse of coming from a bygone era of silent cinema where acting was deliberately overwrought.) Act 1, during which James barely leaves the stage, is long, and tends to drag at times. Hopefully the remaining previews will see this considerably tightened up. Act 2 had greater momentum but could also do with some pruning. The stand-out star though is Lily James. I thought her incredible. She completely inhabits this woman, torn on a surface level between career and family, but more deeply between being the person she's expected to be and having the freedom to be her true self. Skinner provides some overdone metaphors involving caged birds to ram home the point. Once previews have licked the play into better shape, this will be well worth seeing. Four stars. Act 1: 19:33-20:55 Act 2: 21:15-22:31
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