Dear England - NT Olivier / Prince Edward Theatre / Lowry

Could I please ask about the pricing for this? Know a fair few non-regular-theatregoers who would love it so I'm hoping prices won't put them off. thanks

I’ve booked 4 visits on transfer. I just love this show. I hope the cast stay

Cheaper than an England game at Wembley, and a lot closer to the action.

I’ve booked D and you can book the 2 rows in front, I chose not to as PE has quite a high stage from what I recall. It’s a large stage too, so maybe they don’t need too much room at the front of stage

Grabbed a £20 front row seat for tonight, so do still check back if you want to see this before the transfer. And about all I know about football is they have transfers!

 That's odd.

 On my PC, for every performance I've checked, D is the front stalls row and priced £10 cheaper @ £67.50 than E & F which are £77.50 Rows C ,B and A are all greyed out.

Oh noooooo. I wish I hadn’t booked similar seats in row D for all my visits, I hate looking up. Oh well I shouldn’t have been so keen to book all in one go

If you booked through DMT which I assume you did as it’s still only on sale to DMT+ members you can change your seat for free through your account. Go to my account then booking and choose exchange ticket option, you can move to a seat of same value or above but not a seat less than original value. It’s a very handy tool I wish other ticket agents implemented.

Report from last night. Front row centre (next to the ramp), probably the best view in the house. It is a slightly higher stage than usual, but sat up I could see feet, so no issues there. Lots of leg room too. An absolute bargain for £20.

This is an excellent play and I must have had enough football knowledge hidden in my brain to follow what was going on. I could have done with them displaying the current year on a screen somewhere as that took a bit of working out. Lots of people were crying at the end. I could also tell that many present were National Theatre regulars who had at little knowledge of football as me. It is a very thoughtful play.

A strong cast. Being in the front row, I got a clear view of the heavily tattooed hands and arms of many of the footballers, which were very convincing, but I hope for the sake of the performers involved were just temporary and designed to reflect the real players.

I am very glad I saw this at the National Theatre as I shudder to think what type of audience this will get in the West End. There was enough audience cheering, booing and heckling already to become irritating, and that was with the largely traditional National Theatre audience. I was also not impressed by the people sat behind me (all actors with the same agent and between jobs based on their conversation) who thought it appropriate to chat during the performance.

Running time was about three hours. Easily the best play I've seen this year. I am sure this will be a big success in the Prince Edward Theatre.

In his BBC Breakfast interview yesterday James Graham mentioned the possibility of a play on Broadway next year. It wasn't a reference to Dear England. I wonder what it could be? Could it have been a reference to Tammy Faye (even though it's a musical)?