Donmar All New Seasons

Can be knock off the "loony liberal elite" bashing in one thread? Ffs. Nothing to do with theatre.

Maybe it's about the post-punk Gang Of Four, of Damaged Goods and At Home He's A Tourist 'fame'?

I would definitely be up for that.

As Ryan says - Arturo Ui was done at Chichester with Henry Goodman in 2012 and transferred to the West End the following year. Longer ago than I thought!

And it is about the UK gang of four. Debra Gillet as Shirley Williams, Paul Chahidi as Bill Rodgers. 

The musical is a verbatim piece called 'The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence into Whitehall's Relationship with Kid's Company'

No, really.

Well let's take a look at Paul Chahidi and see how Chinese he looks, eh.  (Don't get me wrong, I understood your little dig, but the way you went about it is kind of ridiculous.)

Don't know how much I'm feeling this season. The last Arturo Ui may have been three years ago but I still don't feel I need another one yet. And although Steve Waters is responsible for two of my favourite new plays ever (The Contingency Plan: On The Beach and Resilience), everything he's done since has just felt a little flat. Combined with the recently(ish) inflated ticket prices (£20 for row C of the circle for heaven's sake, and that's before the hefty ATG booking fee!), I might just see if I can get £10 Monday tickets for the whole season and if I don't, then it was not meant to be.

Yes, I have Front Rowed everything (that I wanted to see) bar Coriolanus, and I've not failed yet to get tickets.
So far, no casting announcements that would make booking the minute public booking opens a necessity.
The season does interest me (I haven't seen The Resistable Rise of Artuto Ui yet) - nice to see the Donmar trying a new musical, even though I've not been convinced by the verbatim thing before.

Oh! That's been quietly done! But if row C is back to £10, maybe I'll buy 'em all in advance after all (assuming they are advance bookable, and not the designated "limited number of £10 seats" of course). Wonder if the "limited number of £10 seats" will be designated in advance (if not row C), or just sold from what's left after the advance bookers have had their fill?

The other interesting comment in the brochure is that they are moving away from using ATG tickets in mid-January and after that there will be no booking fee.

I'm not unhappy the scheme has finished. As a supporter I used to book well in advance and hand over my dosh thinking that lovely young people would be encouraged to visit the theatre But when I went I found that my tix were back row and often corners whilst people of my age were in the best seats. They obviously had the time and the nimble fingers to snap up front row seats on a Monday morning or had someone who did it for them. I may have mentioned this gripe once or twice. I used to say that young people with better hearing and eyesight not to mention supple knees could be accommodated upstairs.
And I realise that I'm treading on toes here because you don't have to be young to need a cheap tic. But I assumed the scheme was for under 25 s or so.

So what with that and unappealing plays ( apart from the gals' Shakespeare) I haven't been to the Donmar lately.

I will book for the new season. Maybe not the Gang of Four - painful.

I'm thinking that even a slight teetering of regular support can affect a theatre's policy. Globe ? ...or maybe Barclays just changed their ideas.

I was very disappointed in the U25 free scheme because there were significant numbers of empty seats each time I went, for performances I knew were sold out. People simply do not consider a free ticket a commitment.

Front row still in operation for St joan. They are still doing 10 pound seats released every monday, but not front row, seats throughout the theatre